I’ll be taking some time off over the next few days. I’ll rehash an old post a day, just to keep the lights on. From February 11: After nearly two years of begging him to be furious, I apparently still don’t have Patrick furious enough about the FCC’s slaughter of satellite radio. Like I told [...]
If Czechoslovakia were still around, and a radio station, it would sound like this.
There are XM Radio People, and there are Sirius Satellite People. But even in this post-merger world, something says that there are no Sirius XM Radio People. Do the rest of you XM Radio veterans feel invaded upon? Sirius DJs blather on and on about nothing, and their names are weird. Their stations are stuck [...]
Liberty Media to Save the Day, Maybe
The Muse in Music has been following the latest bankruptcy talk of XM Sirius Radio over the past week and now here is the latest news. Liberty Media Corp. has just announced that it will invest $530 million in XM Sirius radio in order to help salvage what is left of the satellite radio company. [...]
Radio Crossroads
With the future of Satellite radio hanging in the…well, air, will HD Radio, the terrestrial version of digital radio in the U.S (the European and Canadian version is called DAB or Eureka 147), finally gain a foothold? It’s too early to tell, but the current state of the economy doesn’t bode well for Sirius-XM. And [...]
Patrick the Diplomat
After nearly two years of begging him to be furious, I apparently still don’t have Patrick furious enough about the FCC’s slaughter of satellite radio. Like I told him in a recent email, that was my Last, Great Libertarian Cause Célèbre. But first, some history? In 1988, and then again in 1990, a few entrepreneurs [...]
Sirius XM Files Chapter 11
Yes, this is jumping the gun a little bit but it’s on its way according to the New York Times. Sirius & XM radio, who merged late last year after a year and a half debate with the FCC, appears to be in as bad a shape as they claimed they were before the merger. [...]
