"Michael" wrote:

Bank on it.... If and when satellite does away with radio, radio will become
free, and unencumbered by mass-media money grubbing pigs, and thus, attract
the masses again until it becomes commercialized again.

I wish I could be optimistic enough to bank on it. I'd like to see it
happen, too. But every industry is ruined by people who have no real
interest in the job at hand, and I don't see any precedent for a
turnaround.