---
title: "Audio: Digital Drives Listener Experience"
description: "As far back as 2004, Pew Research Center wrote that local news on the radio “appears to have seriously eroded in recent years” with a growing number of stations that  “are not local at all.” Then in 2006 we wrote, “Technology is turning what we once thought of as radio into something broader – listening,” and raised the question of what that would mean for radio news. Now, heading into 2013, those two shifts have come together to create a very different audio landscape—one in which news is relegated to a smaller corner of the listening landscape."
date: "2013-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Laura Houston Santhanam"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Amy Mitchell"
    job_title: "Former Director, Journalism Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/amy-mitchell/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2013/03/19/audio-digital-drives-listener-experience/"
categories:
  - "Audio, Radio & Podcasts"
  - "Digital News Landscape"
  - "Local News"
  - "Media Industry"
  - "Mobile"
  - "News Media Trends"
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# Audio: Digital Drives Listener Experience