Internet Killed the Satellite Radio Star

[furrbear]

I think I'll stay month-to-month. From /.:

As Sirius XM faces bankruptcy, Slate's Farhad Manjoo reports that the company has bigger problems than just the end of cheap credit. While it has what seems like a pretty great service — the world's best radio programming for just a small monthly fee — Sirius XM has been eclipsed by something far cheaper and more convenient: the Internet. Load up Pandora or the Public Radio Tuner on your iPhone, and you've got access to a wider stream of music than you'll ever get through satellite. So forget the satellites, the special radios, and the huge customer acquisition costs, advises Manjoo, and instead focus on getting Howard Stern, Oprah, the NFL, and MLB on every Internet-connected device on the market at very low prices.

Has it REALLY been thirty years?

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Guess it has. MTV turns 30 this year.

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*ahhhhh...*

I have both Buggles albums on CD, and I wish MTV would go back to videos, concerts and music news - what one would expect of a channel called MUSIC TELEVISION. Hell, bring back the Friday Night Video Fights ... though I don't know if there are any videos being made these days good enough to bother with.