Satellite Radio Subscriptions Rising

aSiTiC writes "Apparently, satellite radio is finally catching on. I'm an avid internet radio listener on stations such as KEXP, BBC 6Music and SomaFM. I am looking for a more portable alternative and I wonder if eventually my favorite MP3/RM/WMA internet stations will be ever be carried on satellite."

Comments

As "cool" as this might be...

[Trolling4Dollars]

...I have to ask people; What ever happened to the idea of advertiser paid radio? Or television? As it is right now, I have DirecTV but it REALLY irks me that I pay almost $50 a month and STILL have to endure commercials. For that amount of money, everything I get should be commercial free. And now they want people to pay for radio while still hitting you with adverts? Things are going to hell in a handbasket for the common man and he doesn't even realize it. The only reason I have DirecTV is for the few decent programs that are on and the fact that it's cheaper than the shitty digital cable in my area. And don't even bring up the subject of the fact that there is a near monopoly in the satellite TV biz... The only choices you have as a "Joe Average" are DirecTV and The Dish Network. DirecTV is owned by Fox (blech!) and The Dish Network used to (not sure now) be owned by some ridiculous christian asses that wanted to make sure that the programming was "wholesome". Sorry, but I'm not happy with the ida that IFC was not carried on the Dish Network in the past.

One of the reasons I was very happy with all the stuff that WAS happening with internet radio back in the 90s was that it gave me choice and I didn't have to pay for it. No one did. I paid for my ISP and that entitled me to access anything on the net I wanted that was legit. (I'm not a pirate which is why I use Linux and rip all my own Ogg Vorbis files from CDs I buy) Now, there's only a handful of internet radio worth listening to. And much of it has also gone the pay route, so I've had to abandon some.

Wake up PEOPLE!!! You are being led down the path to ownership. Not YOU owning something, but someone else owning you! It's no surprise to me that I've become more and more of a hermit along with my wife. We isolate ourselves from America's fucked up society and it's "culture" more and more every day. That's why I do nearly everything myself. I can't accept paying people ridiculous amounts of money for goods and services that just aren't worth it. About the only things I can really justify are my water, gas, electric and ISP bills. I wouldn't have a cell phone, but since my company pays for it, I do. In general they just aren't worth it. I can't really justify the $50 a month to DirecTV though. BBC America, with it's few interesting programs (where's the Doctor Who?) isn't worth $50 a month. Neither is VH1 Classic, IFC, Sundance or Turner Classic Movies. But all of those channels are about all I watch. Cartoon Network sucks heavily now. So does SciFi, and the "new" AMC bites choad so hard it's astounding. I mean WHO are they doing marketing research with to determine that we want nothing but crap? TechTV? JESUS! That's about the worst example of info for armchair techies of "technology-lite". They've got nothing on /. and I've even been having my own issue with /. for the past few years.

Ahhh well... another post that will probably get modded down. At this point, who cares? There are more important problems to attend to... like getting George W. Bush out of office.

Re:Gee - Slashdot would run another crap about sat

[madfilipino]

Of course you won't read anything about mad cow here... cows don't have any electronics in them.

Not to mention, we're all vegetarians here. Pass me another steak..... uh, "tofu" fillet with steak flavoring.