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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
None of which I have any desire for. More importantly, I can get all of that on local AM or FM radio, without paying for it. The ony advantage satellite has in those areas is the lack of commercials and out of market sports. Since I can get all the sports games I migth want to listen to locally, there would be no advantage to satellite for me if I was that concerned with hearing anything other than music in my car.
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You might not care about that, but the majority of subscribers do care. Sports deals are one of the big reason people pick XM vs Sirius vs terrestrial. Plus, there are a ton of retards that love Howard Stern and/or Opie and Anthony... shit that I'd rather kill myself than listen too, but a huge sales point for the general public nonetheless. Not everyone (likely most people) is happy or willing to dick around downloading or ripping and burning CDs for all their in-car entertainment.
These are radio's bread and butter customers, and they're not going to up and drop the service just 'cases there are some commercials added, or 'case the price goes up a buck or two a month... all satellite has to do is stay just a little bit better than ClearChannel... which frankly means they can just jam a mic up Howard Stern's ass and beam sounds of his anus down to Earth, and stay in business.