It is extremely hard to listen to terestrial radio after you listen to Satellite. I love Howard Stern and all the music. The biggest problem with radio-they do not know how to break new music-everyone is homogonized. Like WRCH a new somg there plays once every 12 hours. TIC FM played Jason Miraz I'm Yours just on overnights for like two months when it came out. Absolutely no clue!!!
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I guess your not a rocker... WCCC, and WLZX (depending on where you are lazer 99.3) IMHO still has a loyal fan base where many evening listeners including myself when driving through would rather listen to that then the same song in lower quality on Octane... too bad we used to have WAAF as well giving an active rocker no reason for satellite radio... however the same cannot be said down in stamford Ct where there is no ACTIVE rock as soon as I can find a cheap reciever that works with the al lecarte plan I will get that however, I don't see any of those recievers yet so it is still ipod and traditional radio for me...
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it is over for satellite radio...over and out.
It is not over at all for satellite radio. Now that the Sirius-XM merger has gone through they will have a much better control on costs, and with close to 20 million subscribers that is a lot of revenue.
If you base it on stock prices alone, it is all over for terrestrial radio too.
Citadel....18 cents, Cumulus....$1.15, CBS....$7.33, down 75% in the last year, Cheap Channel...$6.04, down from $28 this time last year.
If you base it on stock prices alone, it is all over for terrestrial radio too.
Citadel....18 cents, Cumulus....$1.15, CBS....$7.33, down 75% in the last year, Cheap Channel...$6.04, down from $28 this time last year.
Re: Satellite Radio not dead, it will just add commercials!
Satellite radio will not die, it will just morph into commercial radio.
Regular radio will not die, it will just remorph into what it used to be..a variety of choices...including local and live>
And all of it will be available over the internet.
One big happy family, not making a lot of money!!!
Now thats progress!
Satellite radio will not die, it will just morph into commercial radio.
Regular radio will not die, it will just remorph into what it used to be..a variety of choices...including local and live>
And all of it will be available over the internet.
One big happy family, not making a lot of money!!!
Now thats progress!
HFDnewsguy said:
Would bailing out on the big-money sports contracts help insure survival or would that cause too many subscriber cancellations? Both services overpaid mightily for play-by-play deals -- XM for baseball, Sirius for football and NASCAR (for which it literally used a cannon to kill a fly, paying NASCAR 10 times what XM had been paying for the same niche product).
Perhaps renegotiation, if not outright cancellation, could work. After all, there's no other satellite radio service for the sports organizations to peddle their product to. Or do the organizations just tell Sirius XM to pay a lump-sum buyout and return their product exclusively to local over-the-air radio and pay-to-hear Internet sites?
Most of those 20 million subscribers are based on cars sitting on a dealer's lot, not yet sold, and given the current state of the economy, they aren't going to be sold. even with the merge they are hemorrhaging money.
firsttimelongtime said:
Counting unsold cars as "subscribers" was an accounting trick used only by Sirius and never amounted to more than 100,000 to 150,000, not "most."
jackhammer said:
Can you explain how WRCH dominates the adult demos like 25-54? They play the same old tunes and the jocks read the same old boring liners. For example if a jock promos a tune coming up by Kenny Loggins, it's usually one of three
"This is it", "Forever", or "Meet me half way" or say Cheap Trick, always "The Flame"
The philosophy over there is "if it isn't broke don't fix it" Maybe it's time somebody broke it?
It works because that target audience can't get enough of it! You're obviously not in that target. WRCH has a great signal and people know exactly what they're going to get - and what they won't get. It's all about consistency. Wishful thinking or your experience with them won't change that.
You're right! Give the listeners what they want. But like everything in life, it will eventually run its course. When you are the only game in town it's easy to win.GlennO said:
Jamie said:
Me fail English? that's unpossible.
Didn't The River 105.9 try to go after Lite 100.5 but failed. And lets go back in the day. Magic 104.1 flipped as they couldn't compete.
One more thing about The River. Why does radio and records in the ratings show 105.9 as Classic Hits? Isn't the format more like a Jack type station so maybe Adult Hits.
Surprised they have not changed that yet? R & R behind the times.Ken said:
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