NY Times Looks at Pay Radio

[DudeAsInCool]

STATE OF THE ART

Pay Radio Becomes Personal

By DAVID POGUE

February 3, 2005

The First Rule of Techno-Pop: Any popular, free medium will eventually be ruined by ads, repetition and lowest-common-denominator junk. It happened to network TV, it happened to the Web and it certainly happened to radio.

The Second Rule: Any free medium that has been ruined by ads will eventually encounter competition from a not-free alternative. It happened with cable TV and, more recently, satellite radio.

It may blow your mind to think that over four million people are now paying $10 or $13 a month just to listen to the radio.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/technolo...html?oref=login

[Wolfie]

And they wonder why p2p is thriving. <_>

[Redneck4sure]

I don't have satellite radio but an in dash cd player with a mp3 decoder is nice. Put lots of tracks on a cd and you are good to go. There are lots of alternatives to old fashioned free radio...and I'm sure it worries clear channel. :)

[Kooperman]

It may blow your mind to think that over four million people are now paying $10 or $13 a month just to listen to the radio.

In a country where 61 million people voted for George Bush, that's quite believable....

[Redneck4sure]

If XM winds up being the only one in that field then the prices will go way up.