"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Interesting point. I can't help but think, though, especially with
Karmazin across the street, and his multiple revenue stream mentality,
that when the base gets large enough to be attractive, that advertising
based revenue streams won't appear. It would be nice if it didn't. But I
can't see the corner offices letting that happen. It just makes no
business sense to leave that kind of money on the table. Especially, with
Wall Street looking over everyone's shoulder.

I think this is kind of a standoff. If one blinks, the other will shoot. But
XM dropped the commercial avails when Sirius went all-music on the music
channels, so this one will probably not work out for a long time. As it is,
except for maybe the Stern channel and play by play, none of the XM or
Sirius channels cume more than an average station in Huntsville, so an
advertiser would have to buy nearly all the channels to get any impact.