"Red Cloudİ" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:01:24 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:56:02 GMT, Red Cloudİ
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:30:26 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:23:45 GMT, Red Cloudİ
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:56:59 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
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Think again Rusty old friend - if Air America can't even bring in an
audience from Boston or New York or Providence for pete's sake, then
they really suck.
Do you still ride a horse to get around?
Facts is facts - if you don't like them, not my problem.
The fact that you are overlooking is that Air America had the
foresight to sign an exclusive contract with the run-away winner in
the satellite radio race. XM. Conventional radio delivery is declining
rapidly on all fronts. At least for now, the replacement is XM.
Sirius dumped them and XM won't be much that far behind.
You can't build a radio network on satellite radio even if you have 5
million (slightly exaggerated by the way - - their actual subscription
rate is closer to 3.8 million) subscribers because you have 150
channels to choose from spanning everything from music, talk and
entertainment. Of that, maybe 1 hour of drive time listening per day
max - that's if they are tuned to XM at all which is unlikely. Sirius
and XM tend to be longer distance entertainment devices rather than
short run devices.
So much for listening to Air America on satellite.
Yeah, cable TV will never catch on either!
Unfortunately, radio is not listened to as much at home as TV. What Tom said
about 1 hour drive time listening has been a limiting factor for radio since
the early 1970s, according to my radio ad sales friend, Mike, who's been in
the business about that long.
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