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The one that costs money... doesn't have advertising other than station imaging. You pay for the lack of commercial time and the variety of niche programming.

Personally, I don't see satellite or terrestrial "winning" so much as co-existing. Satellite drops out under heavy cloud cover/bad weather and doesn't penetrate highway underpasses, tunnels, etc. Sat radio feels an awful lot like 100 different iPods, each with its own genre. Terrestrial has its own set of issues, but in losing the "live and local" element, it also loses a unique feature that satellite can't match.
 
Well, besides the fact that while CC and other conglomerates regrettably cut local jobs and airshifts, their stations remain among the most listened to in each market, satellite will have a place as you state, for 15 or 20 million people. Discovery Wings Channel has a place, as well, and it doesn't make as much as NBC.
 
KJCB said:
Well, besides the fact that while CC and other conglomerates regrettably cut local jobs and airshifts, their stations remain among the most listened to in each market, satellite will have a place as you state, for 15 or 20 million people. Discovery Wings Channel has a place, as well, and it doesn't make as much as NBC.
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Listeners don't care about if a station is local or not they care about being entertained. Localism only really matters for weather, news, and school closings. It may not be pleasant to those in the industry but its the truth, especially with so many other options from XM, Sirius, internet radio, and pod casting. It would be interesting to see which network is more profitable, NBC(network not group) or Discovery Wings (didn't they rebrand this as the Military channel?). Satellite radio will reach 80 million households by 2012 and currently is close to the 15-20 million.
 
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