quoted 4 lines From: "John Reading" <john.reading@us.didata.com>> From: "John Reading" <john.reading@us.didata.com>
> It's a corporation no-doubt, but they do have a decent electronica
> channel and they have a couple unsigned band channels and play some good
> post-rock stuff. Don't be such an ass.
Please. With the number of nerdy electronica and postrock fans around there is no excuse to settle for decent. "Good enough
never is" and all that. Call me an idealist, but why even tune in when I can listen to real noncorporate netradio that plays
better music, or that I can set up my own streaming rather easily? It's a weak value proposition, as they say in the
boardrooms.
quoted 3 lines The best part is that they have no commercials and aren't driven by ad> The best part is that they have no commercials and aren't driven by ad
> revenues. There business is not so great now, but maybe after they get
> more subscriptions they could offer more "underground" programming.
This is a direct contradiction of their manifesto. You're saying that they'll get to the noncorporate stuff just as soon as
they take care of the corporate stuff. I don't care if they have to do it this way, and I'm not interested in coming up with
better ways for them to do it right. By your speculation above, their manifesto is not supportable by their business model,
and beyond that their manifesto - if carried into being - would alienate the suppliers they depend on to satisfy the
corporation.
quoted 2 lines Whether or not their programming is good for you or not, isn't it nice> Whether or not their programming is good for you or not, isn't it nice
> to at least hear that stance for a major corporation??
It's suspicious if anything. What possible gain could a "major corporation" have from promoting an anticorporate stance? I'll
tell you what: the 60's brought about the advertising and marketing techniques of co-opting counterculture and whoever is
behind SIRIUS is no doubt just trying to cash in on the most obvious untapped target demographic: anti-RIAA bods.
Nobody needs corporate broadcasting anymore.
-e
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