Jeffrey Schwaia wrote:
> IMHO:  if it's being broadcast, from an antenna or
satellite or
anything, I
> think I should be able to use it free of charge.
Satellite TV...
FREE!
> Satellite radio... FREE!  If it goes through the air
and lands on my
house,
> how can I be charged for it?

caverat wrote:
Twenty minutes of commercials an hour and annoying DJs
is the price you
are
paying for free FM ...

I write:
Remember when cable TV was commercial-free? The logic
was that since you were paying a monthly subscription
fee, the 'broadcasters' didn't need to generate
additional revenues by selling airtime to advertisers.
No-commercials actually made cable TV kind of
tempting.

But now that it's so popular, greedy cable-TV
companies have continued to raise prices AND wedged in
commercials, leaving subscribers to pay ever higher
rates while enduring just as many commercials as
broadcast TV!

Advertisers will follow where the audience goes. How
long till "commercial-free" satellite radio goes the
way of "commercial-free" cable TV?

For now, my onboard entertainment shall remain
watching my temperature gauge and listening to the
birdies ...

Jeffrey Earl
1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"

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