COMMUNICATIONS HORIZONS

f you don’t have a “hybrid” radio in your car today (and VERY few do), it’s quite likely you will someday. What’s a hybrid radio? The radio and vehicle manufacturers have defined a hybrid radio as one that is able to switch efficiently between broadcast signals and internet-provided streams. This capability has been under discussion for at least a decade and is finally beginning to appear in the first production radios included in vehicles. Sure, many of you already have the ability to tune to both broadcast signals and internet streams of stations