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terrestrial radio versus internet radio

I'll have to check with my paint shop guy, Earl. Usually, it's like two jingles for every question, unless they are multiple syllable and if hypenated, mean an extra mixout.
 
My thoughts on howard stern. Talented guy. Was better on terrestrial. Either jumped to Satellite on Bad advice, or with total hubris.. Or both.
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Yeah, bad advice, you can say that again. He only tripled his salary and is now making around $500 million over five years. That idiot Stern. That's the last time he'll take bad advice!

Voluntarily switching to a platform with just a fraction of adoring listeners is quite the opposite of a "total hubris" display, in my opinion.

Was better on terrestrial? Indeed, the show was better with those 20 minute commercial blocks and constant censoring.

(Spoken like a true terrestrial radio apologist!)
 
Yeah, bad advice, you can say that again. He only tripled his salary and is now making around $500 million over five years. That idiot Stern. That's the last time he'll take bad advice!
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Money isn't everything. He has a ferocious ego. He left behind 10 million plus listeners daily, to maybe , what.. 500,000? I cant believe every Sirius subscriber is there to listen to Stern.

Was better on terrestrial? Indeed, the show was better with those 20 minute commercial blocks and constant censoring.
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The shock value was in the censorship. But his schtick is getting tired. He ought to become more of a political talking head, he's actually pretty good at that. Nothing wrong with commercials either. Nothing in life is free. and those 20 minute commercial sets PAID his salary WAY before they launched the first bird into space. People that complain about commercials seem to forget this. Satellite subscribers will be subjected to commercials more as time passes. The subscription business model is a failure. And WallSt is not a patient bunch.

Wait for WiFi and similar technologies to grow. Satellite will be just another has-been. And terrestrial will continue to do what it intended to do - Serve it's communities.
 
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The shock value was in the censorship. But his schtick is getting tired. He ought to become more of a political talking head, he's actually pretty good at that. Nothing wrong with commercials either. Nothing in life is free. and those 20 minute commercial sets PAID his salary WAY before they launched the first bird into space. People that complain about commercials seem to forget this. Satellite subscribers will be subjected to commercials more as time passes. The subscription business model is a failure. And WallSt is not a patient bunch.
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While the sub model profit remains to be seen, I think the program is reinvigorated. Politics is second to his consistent pulling apart of the human condition. There was a little 'shock value' in the censorship, but he's much more than a potty mouth or a one-note political hack. Talk about tired acts, that s__t is torture.

Yes, there are commercials-about 6 -7 minutes an hour during the replays. I don't mind them. I like the extemporaneousness that should be on TR.
 
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