The truth is that radio has not been eclipsed by television and cable and the Internet. In fact, radio is as (36) as it has over been. According to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, 675 million radio receivers are (37) in use in the United States; on average, Americans over the age of eleven spend three hours and eigh minutes of (38) listening to at least one of them. I don’t mention this to make the (39) that radio is "better" than other electronic media, but I will say that it is different, very different. Radio is special to people. And in an (40) when we in the West have so many other media (41) 1to us, media that can "do" so much more than radio ever could, radio still (42) a kind of loyalty that (43) channels and Web sites cannot claim. This loyalty is largely due to radio’s very limitations. (44) .That is it has to speak to us, through either words or music. Couple this with the fact that radio is a curiously intimate medium: people tend to feel that they are connecting with their radios one-on-one. This is generally not the case with television, (45) .But because radio is a "smaller" medium (many low-powered mom-and-pop operations, which were never part of television, still exist on radio), (46) .