Archive for the 'Radio' Category


Lee Abrams

"What kind of moron listens to that shit." Lee Abrams on an Ethel listener stumbling on Willie’s Place. I want you to go to:  Lee Abrams’ Blog On the right hand side of the page, under "Multimedia", under "Lee Abrams On XM Diversity", click on "High" if you’ve got broadband, and "Low" if you’re still stuck […]

From Christine Lavin

Dear Bob: You heard Jeff Daniels with me on xm a few months back — well, I have another scoop — I didn’t want to tell you about it til it was scheduled to air — and now it is. Steve Wozniak, the guy who invented the personal computer and co-founded Apple, has a new […]

XM’s Ads

Somebody at XM needs to be fired. Is there anybody who’s unaware of satellite radio?  Anybody out of the loop with a chance in hell of actually SUBSCRIBING? Thank Howard Stern for elevating the category, for making everybody aware of the service.  Unfortunately for XM, he’s done more good for Sirius, where he broadcasts.  Suddenly […]

Sirius/XM

Did Howard Stern kill satellite radio? Satellite radio was a contender.  Like FM in the late sixties it was based on broad playlists, doing something different, that people believed in and sold religiously via word of mouth. Then came Howard Stern. Sirius was a dying service.  A clone of XM.  With broad playlists and very […]