CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 2 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release:
Neither video, nor streaming, nor AI has killed the radio star, according to University of Virginia student DJs at WXTJ.
In fact, WXTJ's station director, Salma Mamane, said the ubiquity of frictionless technology - like how your music streaming service automatically plays similar music to the track you just listened to, as determined by an algorithm - has only increased people's appetite for older ways of listening to music.
"We're remembering how cool it is," said Mamane, a fourth-year student studying cognitive science. "I see a lot of interest in going back to retro media. This is us being ourselves and having freedom of speech on air, as we...