Posted
5:33 PM
by Gene
Before the news hacks launch into
this, they should launch into
this. The fight between satellite radio and LOWSY may be a lose-lose: on the one side, the satellite radio types hemorrhage money; on the other side, they force enough listener defections so that radio stations play fewer ads and step up their own digital simulcasts (that's ALL they are), sapping their huge profits. Eventually the dish-radio types may cut their losses by upping the advertising quotient, which means all the people shelling out for satellite radio really ARE getting cable in the car. Nor would I be surprised if the dish-radio providers "rationalize" themselves (i.e., cut out classical and jazz) as a cost-cutting move. Then we'd have pay-for-CHEAP in the car. One other thing: when do people demand
a la carte?