Posted on 03/08/2013 1:00:24 PM PST by raccoonradio
Getting people off free radio (it’ll be the wasteland of infomercials and spanish lingo radio) just as they tried to kill free television for $60 a month lefting funding.
Digital broadcast works like sh!t during a hurricane. Brains. Government ain’t got them. They’d rather auction off more cellphone frequencies in blocks of 100,000 numbers and tell you it is a “necessary change”.
Try starting your electric car next time the power lines are down too.
All sacrificed in the name of Gaia’s global warming cult and corporatism. Corporations have revealed themselves to be pro-socialist in public policy so I don’t find this to be a “capitalism” slam.
It may not kill off Rush’s radio program but it will further marginalize it. Just as stations have tried to eradicate local hosts talking about local POLITICAL issues (and I don’t mean whether Citgo flew flags at half staff or what some school teacher did to one of his/her students). Much of the rest of the time it’s just syndicated “outrage”.
The illusion of political discourse.
What I'd really like is a 2-meter HAM radio for emergencies and a DVD player that will play MP3s for travelling. (4 GB per disk as opposed to 700 MB per disk for a CDR)
Horse manure. No sale.
Though, I was able to make due on this trip. The radio had Bluetooth so I could get my cell phone to act as music source. It has a large'ish capacity Micro SD card with a good amount of music on it. With two batteries handy it kept me happy and I didn't have to listen to any staticy commercials.
I thought of that immediately and gave my guy at the rental place a call. He said the 1 year satellite subscription comes with the car from the dealer they lease from. The rental place isn't the customer who opened the subscription. So there was nothing he could do for the satellite as this car was due to be turned in when I get back.
The Coby is head and shoulders above all the rest. So much so that I bought three so as to have spares available for some years to come.
That is quite difficult to do in many new vehicles. The double-DIN radio bay didn’t ever really standardize, it isn’t used much any more, and now there is so much ICE integration that putting in an aftermarket radio is all but impossible.
I think this is an attack on AM Talk Radio, such as Rush, Hannity, et al.
I wouldn't even be surprised to see if the receiver hardware was build into every car sound system with an expensive software upgrade needed to activate it so the upgrade is pure profit other than five minutes of labor from the dealer.
Also for the car companies to try to shake down the National Association of Broadcasters for an AM/FM radio subsidy like they probably get from Sirius/XM for satellite radio and from the phone companies for built in cell phone phones. The last two rely on the drivers to pay subscriptions to make up the money. I guess the NAB would just have to lean on their stations to pay for the subsidy.
Rush Limbaugh
BINGO!
why is google making “dumb” navigation dependent on google vs smart navigation independent of a slave net.
Kool. Cheap enough. I think I’ll grab one for “just in case”.
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