Cooperstown.Net wrote:

Never forget that satellite radio is *hometown* radio. It brings the best
of the culture, seven jazz channels for example, to every community in America.
Including the "flyover" communities whose limited commercial potential makes
them irrelevant to terrestrial media elites.

You have a very odd definition of hometown.

I suppose if you're listening to XM and are from San Antonio, Texas, it's
"hometown" radio because that's where Clear Channel's corporate headquarters
are. :P Or if you're in NYC and listening to Sirius.

At any rate, "beamed down from a bird in orbit thousands of miles above Earth"
doesn't qualify as hometown radio as far as I'm concerned.

And you forget who owns the satellite companies... "terrestrial media elites."
At least here in the US. (OK, that's true of XM for sure... not sure about
Sirius's corporate pedigree, but the people in charge are from large
communications companies...)

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