Satellite radio subscription boom.
Sat radio receivers and subscriptions will become THE hot Christmas gift.
Perhaps true...but it has a drastic effect on AM radio. We could be talking about 300 stations around the nation that are in dire financial trouble by October of 2009. They will come for bailout money too...but the true problem for them is that they will never be able to bring back talk-radio, so congress will fund yearly bailouts for these folks.
The other curious side is that we will all learn how to lodge complaints...and this tiny crew of three individuals who run this governmental control game...were built for the 1960’s style situation. Since the mid-80s when we stopped this game....our radio networks have tripled...TV has more than two hundred significant networks around the nation...each and every single town now has four stations minimum, and with thirty thousand complaints being lodged per week by both the left and right...these folks won’t be able to do much of anything.
so what? the whole point is to make sure that the conservative message isn’t heard by many people.
“Satellite radio subscription boom.”
Darn right, you betcha.
Will subscribe to Sirius-XM this week.
Will satellite radio be able to absorb Rush, Hannity, Levin, Ingraham, and Savage?
Satellite radio broadcasting was first authorized in 1997, when two licenses were issued to the companies now known as XM and Sirius. Their applications had taken seven years for the Federal Communications Commission to approve, mainly because the National Association of Broadcasters charged that the new service threatened "traditional American values of community cohesion and local identity."
is satellite outside the FCC jurisdiction? I will gladly pay to listen to America Right on Sirius if Rush joins them.