"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:


What is being missed is tha tthe model, at launch, of XM was to have 6
minutes of commercials on all channels. After about 28 months, they
changed this and the music channels were made commercial free.

I remember when they made the change. I can't believe that when the
subscriber base is significant enough, and the measurements have been
refined, that there won't be a reversal of the policy, though.


Personally, I do not think so. they severed all ties with the content
providers they had who were to be compensated with sales rights on a
percentage of inventory. I was programming 5 of the XM channels, Aguila,
Caricia, Caliente, Tejano and Vibra from launch to the January when they
made the change, and we had over 25 people working on the 5 channels. I
think they poisoned the well when they did that.

David Eduardo wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

What is being missed is tha tthe model, at launch, of XM was to have 6
minutes of commercials on all channels. After about 28 months, they
changed this and the music channels were made commercial free.
I remember when they made the change. I can't believe that when the
subscriber base is significant enough, and the measurements have been
refined, that there won't be a reversal of the policy, though.


Personally, I do not think so. they severed all ties with the content
providers they had who were to be compensated with sales rights on a
percentage of inventory. I was programming 5 of the XM channels, Aguila,
Caricia, Caliente, Tejano and Vibra from launch to the January when they
made the change, and we had over 25 people working on the 5 channels. I
think they poisoned the well when they did that.



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.

"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.

Somebody mentioned HDTV. www.google.com Watch HDTV on your PC

Do you own a good flat screen computer monitor? (CRT computer monitors
and tv sets are the best,they always will be.Mine is a 22 inch flat
screen CRT Multisync computer monitor) Scroll down to the Popular
Mechanics article.Yerra,and yesterday at gizmodo.com I saw an article
about some new visors you can plug into your computer,same effect of a
30 screen size.
cuhulin

David Eduardo wrote:
"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.




Shades of the Chicago radio wars.

Satellite Radio should be very exciting to watch in the coming years.
If it survives long term, it should be quite a show.