Given their tyrannitcal actions over the years, I would love to see them go down in flames.
Sooner than you think.......how about NOW? Sirius and XM Satellite Radio are $13.95 and $9.95 monthly. If the FCC successfully migrates the Radio spectrum to Digital as they are doing with Commercial Over The Air TV, subscription-based radio services could be the norm of the future.
And if you're curious, the signal quality and programming on both XM and Sirius are superior to analog AM/FM commercial radio, IMO (though Sirius signal quality is not up to the standards of XM currently - you get a lot of drop outs when driving)....but here is something you won't know unless you become a subscriber (this example being from XM):
Each reciever is coded with a unique ID and you need to initialize it to start decoding the signal. Okay, that's a pain but you only need do it once. Here is the kicker - when you stop the subscription it takes less than four minutes for them to cut off service to the particular reciever you unsubscribed. Connect a few dots and it's not hard to figure out that someone like XM knows what signal is being listened to where and by whom. In fact, user stats are collected by XM just like your ISP could keep a roster of URLs you visit.
The RIAA would love for all radio to be subscription based but "free" radio has a behemoth known as Clear Channel that isn't going to want to re-engineer each station it owns.