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mred
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take it over and run it with educational, cultural and public interest information, and emergency broadcasts. Require all car and home radio have sat ready circuits.
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The government already wasted most of your money, It would serve little purpose to own sat radio. It's doing fine on it's own.
NO! NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO! Government stay out of total control of any media. Public Affairs? Educational? Don't you think you'd often get nothing more then propoganda, both direct and disguised (as educational), from whatever party controls things? No government controlled media. Hitler knew how important control of the media was, and it didn't take long for the Nazi party to nationalize everything in pre-World War II Germany...radio, movies, print... The media was very instrumental in building up and securing the Dictator's power. The more power that we give the government, or the government takes, the less freedom we have as individual Americans.
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JimmyJames
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Satellite's doing so well they had to have Echostar and Liberty racing to bail them out.
Walter, why the propaganda? Mel K doesn't care about you as much as you likely wish he did.
Walter, why the propaganda? Mel K doesn't care about you as much as you likely wish he did.
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Walking On
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Wasn't free satalite promised to the masses (everything else was)? And since your free GM vehicle will have XM, I guess it'll be free XM! 
It would have been free if it was not for the NAB! Originally the goal was to have it advertiser supported, however the boys at the NAB figured which legislators to grease and managed to killed the concept.
Perhaps having an NAB member as CEO of Sirius/XM explains why it's tittering on bankruptcy.
More on the subject is here:
www.radiobrandy.com/BroadcastBullies1.html
Steve
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mred
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You don't use the interstate hiway system or aviation system? (Both government run.) Let's tear-up the freeways because they were based on something Hitler came up with 25 years before us, the U.S. (e.g. autobahn?)
The ear implant some talk show hosts wear in their dittohead was developed by a scientist out at NASA (that's the government tax and spend). The iridium satelite phone went BK and that was private sector, time for the government to nationalize xm/sirius. Sat radio went BK in Europe already.
The ear implant some talk show hosts wear in their dittohead was developed by a scientist out at NASA (that's the government tax and spend). The iridium satelite phone went BK and that was private sector, time for the government to nationalize xm/sirius. Sat radio went BK in Europe already.
Have XM-Sirius merge with Worldspace and go global
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JimmyJames
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You do know Worldspace is bankrupt?
Maybe citicorp could take them over.
mred said:
For anybody who thinks government does a bad job, may I remind you folks of the U.S. Postal Service, which is able to deliver mail and packages for far less and more efficiently than any other carrier. I also call your attention to the country's airports, which for the most part are government-run. And to the Medicare system which serves millions of folks. And to road crews which fix the highways (when they have enough money to do so).
Government is actually very efficient at running things; private business, on the other hand, siphons off profits and enriches its CEOs and board members.
I'm not saying that satellite radio should be nationalized; it's not a necessary service. But I do think that government always gets a bad rap for no good reason except people's knee-jerk reactions.
I like the British model for media. The BBC, which is the largest news gathering and media corporation in the world, is paid for by the television license fees of British people (you pay about 150 pounds per TV set to the govt. in order to run the BBC). Now, this allows for the BBC to run without commercials. The BBC runs like the post office, it's sort-of part of the government, but is independent. Taking the profit motive out of it would give us better media in my opinion. I like the BBC World Service (XM 131).
wpiv926 said:
I too enjoy the BBC World service radio & TV.
DavidKaye said:
I have to believe there is sarcasm here. The USPS efficient...with a billion dollar deficit and major service cuts on the horizon. The medicare service may claim to serve millions of folks but not very efficiently. Have you really looked at government road crews "working" repairing roads. There is a reason much of that work is contracted out so it will eventually get done right. As far as nationalizing sat radio..just be patient it too will happen along with everything else on our path to becoming a banana republic.
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kenglish
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Let Sirius XM keep either the Sirius system or the XM system, and license the other to the terrestrial broadcasters, operating as a consortium.
Let the terrestrial guys compete for the available bandwidth, by providing better programming (which must. basically, duplicate their best broadcast programming) than the rest of the stations. So, we get a free, satellite fed service, that is, say one-hundred of the BEST broadcast channels in the country....talk, music, educational, etc. This might also raise the quality of some of the terrestrial outlets, as well.
Let the terrestrial guys compete for the available bandwidth, by providing better programming (which must. basically, duplicate their best broadcast programming) than the rest of the stations. So, we get a free, satellite fed service, that is, say one-hundred of the BEST broadcast channels in the country....talk, music, educational, etc. This might also raise the quality of some of the terrestrial outlets, as well.
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