Posted by Jerome on September 23, 2005 at 17:16:17:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Satellite misconceptions shortcomings posted by Ken Haelig on September 22, 2005 at 10:24:39:
Ken, terrestrial radio doesn't deny you oldies because it doesn't like you. It denies you oldies because you live in the wrong community or are believed to belong to an undesirable demographic.
Satellite providers offer oldies, and will always offer oldies, because your money is green to them, regardless of who you are or where, in the contiguous US, you live. You, not some car dealer, are the sponsor of your preferred music format. Folks in undesireable demos, folks with niche tastes, folks with mainstream tastes that aren't especially popular in their home communities, folks in small communities, folks who value their time and sacred attention and don't care to be harangued, all are superserved by satellite radio.
As with food, clothing, shelter or transportation, the only way you can realize your own tastes in entertainment is to be permitted to pay for it directly. Until you pay, you're no more a customer of terrestrial radio than you are of the billboards on the roads you travel.
Terrestrial radio is built on an unnatural business model founded on the difficulty, years ago, of designing a coinbox for applications that used the radio spectrum. Thus what we are offered is chosen by others and paid for by others for the purpose of capturing our attention and plying us with demands. We wouldn't want to obtain asparagus this way; why, other than grunt poverty or force of habit, would we prefer it for something as essential as mobile audio content?
Jerome