My parents just got an XM in their new car, and I turned to "America Right" - it was pathetic. No Rush. Laura is good, but I won't buy a set for just her. Their lineup:
Wall Street Journal
10AM-11AM ET G Gordon Liddy
Noon-3PM ET The Laura Ingraham Show
3PM-6PM ET Dr. Laura
6PM-9PM ET Michael Reagan
There's lib trash talk on both XM and Sirius. I won't get either for that reason alone.
I don't think Rush would need to sign on to satellite because 98% of the population can get it on AM or FM.
I believe Rush has said that will never go to satellite radio.
I believe that it is because he wishes to promote (and honor contracts with) his numerous AM and several FM stations that he can be heard on.
Two years ago I said the same thing but Rush has since stated that he is staying with the radio stations because of the loyalty they have shown him over the years.
If he changes his mind, Sirius will triple over night.
If his successor, whoever she might be, Coulter, Bruce, or Ingrahm takes a large percentage of the loyal Limbaugh listeners over to Sirius, it should double over night.
That is just not going to happen. Rush is a goldmine to hundreds of large to small radio stations for which he gins up millions of dollars of advertising dollars.
Besides, his audience is in the order of 20 million. If he went on to, say, XM Radio, that potential (and I emphasize "potential") audience would be half that.
Our office building has interior walls made with metal studs. They work as a giant antenna, scrambling the satellite signals into oblivion. We ran an antenna from our satellite radio to a window, but that only slightly helped. But broadcast radio signals work fine. Does the satellite radio industry have a fix for this problem?