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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to Technogeez
Re: Is it worth all this attention? I say keep the profanity in prime time. But anyway, you hit the nail on the head.
It's not a utility.. it's not a vital service to the American public.. the radio service actually, for the most part, unplugs people FROM the life line services.. At least if you are listening to an FM/AM station and something bad is about to happen in your area, you can get warning which is part of the responsibility of the public airwaves. (Remember the bay area / comcast FM complaint?)
If XM/Sirius Radio was required (which is shouldn't be) to carry these emergency notices, which is technologically impossible at this point, break in with warnings, etc.. then I'd see it as a utility. To me, satellite is NO different that cable or satellite TV.. it's a luxury service, not a life line. It's a private business, as is not government run, and should really have little impact on the public.
If satellite raises the rates.. so be it. If the market doesn't like it, they can cancel their subscription.
Those, here, that argue against it because it's not in the interest of the public, ie: higher rates, don't get it. What those people are doing is looking for the GIVERnment to control every aspect of life and have the GVMNT ensure that everything can be affordable.
To this, I simply disagree. I don't think it will go through, to be honest, but I could care less if it did, and I could care less if it goes through and they double the price over night. I'd simply cancel my subscription like over half of their subscribers would.
(as a side note: the only way I think a price hike would come is the day they - *and they will* - stop the one price for all service, break them into programming types with ala cart pricing that when you buy them all would give them something like $7 more per month than you pay now.. )
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 pianotechPianotechPremium
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| said by fiberguy: the radio service actually, for the most part, unplugs people FROM the life line services.. At least if you are listening to an FM/AM station and something bad is about to happen in your area, you can get warning which is part of the responsibility of the public airwaves. (Remember the bay area / comcast FM complaint?) I had to comment on this because where I live we have a horrible, former Clear Channel AM and FM. Back in November I was driving back into my home town and saw smoke billowing over the city and 4 helicopters hovering. Realizing something big was going on, I switched from XM to the local station expecting to hear what was going on. Nothing. That's because the station is pretty much a playlist, right down to the news that they record in the morning and replay every hour.
Finally I switched back to CNN on XM and THEY were the ones doing a live feed on the natural gas explosion in my city that leveled 30 houses!
So that shows you that at least in my case, it was XM and not the local station that brought me up to date on a very significant news story that was happening where I live. And btw, the local station didn't carry anything about it until the next day! | |
fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | I agree.. believe it or not, there was some tounge in cheek there.. I guess you'd have to know the history behind the people in the SF hills that wanted their radio back on cable because it was a vital part of their community and life. But yea, you are right. Some stations, like in Sacrament, KFBK is good about getting right on the story... SF has a few of them left, on AM,... there are few news stations left like that.
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"Complaining is the least path of resistance for the self-reitchous and lazy ... those who also never take the time to point out a good fortune when the opportunity presents itself. It says a lot about one's moral character." - Unknown | |
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