Is The FM tuner obsolete?

I got a Magnum Dynalab MD108T last week. I upgraded from a MD102. I have a great local station that actually sounds good and plays the most incredible music. A lot of stuff I have never heard before. I listen a minimum of 3 hours a day to FM (9AM -12PM) and now that I have this incredible sounding tuner I am cutting into some of my streaming time in the evening. 

A great thing about radio is the discovery of new music and the lack of thought as to what to listen too next.

In the US the FCC dictates the airwaves. 

My local Jazz station KCSM, struggles to maintain a high quality signal. 

Just running the electricity to power the transmitter is costly to reach maybe 100k listeners in the area? 

Economics will eventually dictate the future. 

akg_ca

FM broadcasts over-the-air is alive and well as evidenced by both (I) the auto industry and OTA station broadcasts in major centres here in NA and (2) also more so in Europe.

Annual revenue for radio totals about $10 billion in the US. It's a big business and it isn't going away anytime soon.

The DAB broadcast format in the UK is great … a shame it was a stillborn broadcast platform here in NA.

The US has never had DAB. We do have IBOC (so-called "HD radio") but that's not the same thing.

Nice tuners a really cool but commercial radio not so much.  I will go with streaming.

I started with a Fisher 50B. It DID NOT sound s good as my father's Sylvania that I recorded  offa.
Now I avoid broadcast radio always.