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why would anyone pay for sirius/xm when they play the same songs over and over? and lots of songs never get played on any station. the stations with on air personalities rarely talk. you can get internet radio for free on your smart phone in the car. SLACKER AND PANDORA HAS every song you want to hear. sirius/xm does not!!! you can listen to every station in the world on your car speakers with a smartphone. So you are only paying for Howard Stern and MLB. IF you get mlb.com on your phone you can listen to either team. XM HAS ONLY the home team. SIRIUS/XM WILL NEVER MAKE IT. THEY ANGER ME. Karmazin angers me. :mad: :mad: :mad: And I don't care how his name is spelled.
 
My question is why is there not another satellite radio network? Is there any talk of one in the works?

It just seems to me that there's got to be a market for some Sirius/XM competition....something smaller, perhaps....music only.

I have this idea that it would be interesting to see a new satellite radio network come up, partnering with a few well known internet radio sites (Hype Machine, Soma FM, KNAC, etc) and maybe even a few mom and pop radio stations and create some competition. Or something similar but on the talk end of things, for those who prefer talk radio.
 
agentUrge said:
My question is why is there not another satellite radio network? Is there any talk of one in the works?

It just seems to me that there's got to be a market for some Sirius/XM competition....something smaller, perhaps....music only.

I have this idea that it would be interesting to see a new satellite radio network come up, partnering with a few well known internet radio sites (Hype Machine, Soma FM, KNAC, etc) and maybe even a few mom and pop radio stations and create some competition. Or something similar but on the talk end of things, for those who prefer talk radio.
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It is a federally sanctioned monopoly. Sirius XM controls 100 percent of the available spectrum for the service. Competition is impossible.
 
There WAS originally DOUBLE the SatRad Spectrum, but the NAB helped cut that in half, resulting in the crappy audio we have now; imagine double the BW of EACH service. That adjacent bandwidth was sold; XM tried to buy some of it back at one time.

I'm all for another SatRad provider; even one that would just lease space to internet stations, like REWOUNDRADIO.com to broadcast OTA on a new SatRad.
 
JohnnyElectron said:
There WAS originally DOUBLE the SatRad Spectrum, but the NAB helped cut that in half, resulting in the crappy audio we have now; imagine double the BW of EACH service. That adjacent bandwidth was sold; XM tried to buy some of it back at one time.

I'm all for another SatRad provider; even one that would just lease space to internet stations, like REWOUNDRADIO.com to broadcast OTA on a new SatRad.
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Hard to imagine sat radio ever getting any more spectrum. The telecoms will be buying up every available hertz for wireless internet and telephone services, and they can easily outbid a minnow like SiriusXM.
 
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