News of radio’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.

When we asked last week for the top choices of on-the-road entertainment, 6 of 10 respondents said that listening to regular, old, free radio was on the list. Half said they listened to CD’s or cassettes. About a third listened to their iPod or satellite radio on their road trips.

I’ve been reading on a nearly daily basis in the Times-News Letters to the Editor folks complaining about losing one or more channels since the digital television transition. Although I have digital cable at home, I had a similar experience in rigging up my father-in-law’s coversion box in his camper while he was visiting at the bayfront campground last weekend. His rotating rooftop antenna was getting any number of Canadian analog stations from 150 miles away, but when we hooked the converter box up, we only received3 of the 5 Erie broadcast stations. At the time, WICU was still going through their buildout, but we were also not receiving WJET.

It could have been a glitch that evening, but with the critical mass of complaints that P&T and others are receiving, I want to ask this question TO ERIE OVER-THE-AIR VIEWERS ONLY (no cable or local on satellite viewers, please).

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