I was raised on the radioRaised on the radioJust an all-American boyI found my favorite toy I love my iPod on shuffle, but it’s no match for a deejay’s selections. That’s what we’ve lost on terrestrial, the concept that there’s a single individual, making choices, spinning what HE wants to hear, not what some consultant […]

XM has the greatest service known to man and the only people who know it are its subscribers. Used to be that satellite radio was new, a NOVELTY! But once Howard Stern hit the front page of "The New York Times" satellite radio became Coldplay. The new thing that EVERYBODY had heard of. I know […]

I wasn’t previously a believer, but I’m coming around to the viewpoint that Mel Karmazin is a BRILLIANT businessman. Sirius launched after XM. Reception of its signal is problematic. The sound, to my ears, is clearly inferior to XM’s. Yet not only has Sirius stolen XM’s thunder, a betting man would say that it’s going […]

I keep getting e-mail from disgruntled XM subscribers. That their favorite channel, #51, Music Lab, has bitten the dust. I’ll print one below. This is totally fucked up. The promise of satellite radio was to go deep, to provide something for EVERYONE! But the new regime at XM, the Infinity assholes, are turning XM into […]