That's also more than three times what Amazon itself charges for cellular capability in the Kindle Paperwhite 3G (although, of course, that is a far less expensive radio being used to receive lightweight text-based products).
One year I had a severe case of laryngitis, which is not good considering I am on radio and TV several times a day from CES. I got around it by using text-to-speech software to deliver my radio segments.
That would set it apart from most of the video news on the web, which typically involves a talking head speaking words that would work just as well (or poorly) as a text article or the script of a radio segment.
Save for the "weeklies" that Jimmy reads (he favors the New Statesman) and the snippets of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony heard on the radio, there are no cultural markers on display beyond the text of the play itself.