20-25 years from now, we don't need an AM/FM terrestrial radio set, as well a TV set if the home computer will provide you all the TV, radio/audio, news "paper" and cinema movies we need. This is an issue for these industries not yet converted to the internet. What can they do to survive? evolve, adapt and compromise, so their businesses and the medium continues in the next decade/21st century/new millennia/"Aquarian age".
Locally, the first radio station is (gone) KCMJ 970, began in 1940. By the end of the 1970s, the Palm Springs area had 12-14 AM wave stations and 5-7 FM wave (including transmitters from Riverside or Imperial). In the 1980s FM boom, FM from Los Angeles and San Diego put up translators or repeaters to reach Palm Springs (not always audible in Coachella or Indio), while Palm Springs' stations are clearly audible in Banning or Beaumont, sometimes Hemet or San Jacinto, and pretty much Yucca Valley or 29 Palms. By the end of the 1990s, we had 15-16 commercial and 8-9 public FM stations. Today, it's grown to a total of 45 (25 commercial, 8 religious and 10 public on FM, plus a news/talk station on 94.3-also 104.7) in the Palm Springs area, excluding Morongo Basin and San Gorgonio pass-only stations. The number of AM wave stations decreased to 7 or 8 and they're switching (or already have) to FM.