As if you needed convincing terrestrial radio was about advertising… America’s number one country radio station changed formats Thursday because…you just can’t make it appealing to white people. Yup, that’s what the head of EMMIS Radio said. In the melting pot of Los Angeles, appealing only to shitkickers, and their middle-class baby boomer brethren who’ve […]

XM has got baseball. Sirius has got Howard Stern. But if you think either of those can save their respective services, you’ve got no idea how much they’re PAYING for this programming. Furthermore, not everybody is a baseball fan, and hate to tell you, Howard Stern has got an aging audience. Which begs the question, […]

The window is closing on satellite radio. Its obit, and it won’t go completely out of business, just like there’s still a market for vinyl records, will read "Killed By The iPod". How did they screw up so bad? Sirius delaying its introduction until it got the kinks out of its proprietary chips. XM using […]

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 […]