News would keep us informed and Mystery Theater would keep us entertained on the drive back home, exhausted, on Sunday evenings.

He's old now, but drove to Wyoming to fish last year from southern California. He said the fishing wasn't any good when he got there, so he turned around and came home before the next day dawned. I wonder what he will listen to this Spring.

Reads almost like the NYT is bragging about itself contributing to the shutdown?

I remember one service, a weather service that many private fishermen used was ended last year I think. Now they go without or they may need to subscribe to an expensive satellite service that is probably worse than the one that ended.

I know correlation isn't causation, but damn, that feels really on the nose.

> But because of “a shift in radio station programming strategies” and “challenging economic realities,”

From the inside, a complete failure to modernize off the terrestrial satellite network, weak investments in reporting technologies and equipment, and a completely mismanaged web strategy which sacrificed brand identity and invention for lame SEO gamesmanship and wacky wordpress plugins.

They decided somewhere in 2015 that they were done with radio and effectively just gave up. This has been the slowest shoe to drop but it has been inevitable for a while.