In article ,
Bob Campbell wrote:
"Mark Zenier" wrote in message
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So radios have been exiled to lower end discount stores, and the
drugstore chains (that don't have a conflict of interest between
the subscription based services and the customer).

So its not that no one is interested in radio, it is all YAC (yet another
conspiracy)!

Hey, if you went to "Buy More" (in the last several years), there's a
quarter of an aisle of boom boxes and other bottom end home audio stuck
in the back, and there's as much space up front for XM and/or Sirius.
And the same thing for satellite TV with a full aisle of display for
DirectTV and/or Dish Network, and you have to ask the sales geek if
they have any ATSC tuners and he shows you the ONE they have that's
$350-$550, and you understand that the digital TV conversion had more
than just technical reasons for going so slow, and the stores had
the same sort of incentives applied to radio, too. (The subscription
services had shareholder's and subscriber's money to boost their
equipment sales, the local broadcasters didn't).

It's as much of a clusterf*** as a conspiracy, too. 1) "What's on the
Radio", and 2) the really crappy quality of the radios that are for sale
doesn't help either.

Mark Zenier
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