DISQUS

VentureBeat: Can satellite radio be saved?

  • Peter Antypas · 9 months ago
    Broadcasting (terrestrial, satellite or Internet) is DEAD. Only on-demand delivery will survive.
  • e.p.c. · 9 months ago
    I'm a Sirius subscriber but I think the service is dead. I enjoy listening to it in the car but have cut back at home (and to anyone who claims that radio over Internet is the way of the future: got a lot of bandwidth in your car? Works everywhere in the US?). It was doomed with two competitors, but the Bush FCC sealed its fate with its pace of approving the SIRI-XM merger.
  • Enrique · 9 months ago
    It won't be long before you'll be able to listen to the radio in your car via mobile network (being 3G, WiMax or LTE). I won't work everywhere in the US, that's for sure, but then, how big is the market for listening radio in uncovered areas? A mobile networks, with their two way communications, will enable on demand delivery. No more the listener adapting to the programming but the other way round.