General Training, India, January 2012
謝振禮老師Jeenn Lee Hsieh

Radio will no longer be able to hold its presence as television and Internet will replace it very soon. Do you agree or disagree?

It may be said that music radio will live as long as music itself. The increasing radio listenership perhaps means that listening to radio makes people happier than watching television or surfing Internet. People do not listen to radio to be depressed, certainly not when it comes to turning on a favorite music station, and the whole idea of listening to radio is to gain emotional companionship and audio enjoyment.

Radio provides a consistent environment themed and shaped to suit people's emotional needs almost at any given moment. It can be seen that Internet is obviously ruining printed circulations like newspapers and magazines, but radio along with television as media outlets will survive. In fact, the popularity of radio is not affected by either television or Internet, according to a recent study about the average people's media consumption and emotional responses. One reason for this is probably that radio as emotional companionship does not require attentive eyes being fixed on the screen. Whereas trolling online might become an uncomfortable activity, and whereas watching television might be considered as the ultimate in escapism, only radio can help put people more at ease with the environment, indoors or outdoors. Like mobile phones, radio supports people's daily activities, and every hand phone of course has its own radio.

People like to listen to radio for music along with local news. Like selecting food, people can choose the station that best pleases them--the flavor that they enjoy most. There is no doubt that radio can help them feel better as they go about their days. Most people who enjoy listening to radio do not even realize how important it is in their lives. Radio can actually improve people's daily activities, like cleaning up around the house, or cooking, or getting ready in the morning, driving, or bathing, or at the end of a trying day, soothing late sleepers into dreams. Although people probably do not listen to radio and watch television at the same time, they do often enjoy music from radio when they are doing work on Internet.

In listening to radio, people are emotionally entertained in a way unlike watching television or using Internet. More often than not, people feel happier when growing more attached to the stations they frequent, and remain royal for the rest of their lives. Despite the overwhelming influence from Internet and television, radio will continue to be up and running in people's daily lives.