Watching the satellites

[greatbearmd]

Several years ago if one were to ask my opinion on it, I would have said I'd never pay for 'radio'. Meaning, I would not pay for the priviledge of listening to radio via satellite as long as there was good terrestrial radio around. Well, thanks to Clear Channels, SInclair Broadcasting and a couple other megaconglomerates buying up, homogenizing and

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[inqueery]

Well they are certainly trying to merge. But its going to be a serious uphill climb - and that's assuming that it's approved. (which I suspect won't happen)

[ciddyguy]

Try finding any regular FM stations owned by Entercom (HttP://www.entercom.com) and you may be well surprised. My favorite FM station is own by their West coast company here in Seattle. I've posted about them on my journal. KMTT and you can listen to them on the web too.

Local DJ's, locally owned and still reside in Seattle. I know it's rare, but they still exist.

Just thought You'd like to know.

[beartech420]

i'm interested in hd radio because a few stations here in philly are broadcasting in hd and it is free.

[sfmini]

In a totally manic episode, when I bought the first MINI, I got the integrated Sirius unit. At the time I was doing a lot of driving and it was nice to have commercial free tunage. Towards the end I started noticing the fake DJ jabber and self promos were becoming increasingly annoying, along with the fact that it became increasingly clear that the stuff they were playing was the stuff that had cheap royalties. There were entire spectrums of music that was never played. One such station on Sirius seems to play nothing but Barry White. Boy, his royalties must be zero

[furrbear]

I felt the same sense of dread when that email landed in my inbox this afternoon.

Even though it would result in a single monopoly and be woefully anti-consumer (like those concerns would catch the attention of the Bush FCC), I have little hope that this merger will fail to gain regulatory approval.