"IBOCcrock" wrote in message
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"Satellite Radio Is Radio"

"Niche formats -- the ones you'd think attract subscribers who'd be
happy to pay for satellite channels -- do poorly. Sometimes very
poorly. Sirius Underground Garage has about 45,000 cume listeners.
XM's Fungus has 44,000. It might be better to turn the electricity off
and save some money. But...the long tail theory applies to satellite
radio as it does to popular music. All those little "low rated"
channels make up what's called the satellite radio audience...

The #1 radio station in New York has a cume of over 2 million. That is one
station. The daily cume of the two satellite companies is not even 1/2 of
the subscriber base, so about 3 of the top NY stations... three stations in
one market... is greater than the national cume of the satellite stations.