Ahh. An absurd statement which harkens back to Mussolini’s Trincerocrazia. For that matter, I guess you can’t comment on education unless you’re a teacher? Can’t comment on law enforcement matters unless you’re a cop. Not to mention the absurd notion that one can’t support a war unless their a soldier. Nevermind that, by that logic, one can’t oppose a war either.

I’ve never had a sub to XM because it wouldn’t be practical for me with a short commute. However, I’ve used it many times before in rental cars. Does that mean I only have a partial “RIGHT” to comment?

Get over yourself, Trevor. We’re smarter than you think you are.

from what I can see, you are an opionionated journalist, not an expert in technology. have you ever written a line of code? have you ever built a server?

what gives you the right to speak as an authority on technology? I love how people can assume the identity of a technology expert when their experience consists of a “mojave experiment” with new technology products an then they move on to the next item. I prefer to hear from someone who uses the technology day in and day out. someone who actually taxes it to the limit in real world scenarios.

Do you have a Sirius or XM subscription? if not, you have NO RIGHT to comment on the technology. If you don’t, your articles about it are nothing more than opinionated fluff backed by hot air.

but apparently youre connected with all the siriux xm hater club somehow.

Both of these companies managed to take wonderful new technology and dumb it down to the point that I’d rather listen to FM radio where they at least don’t pretend to be commercial-free and all about the music. I often listen to the blues channel where constantly throughout every hour the completely unnecessary and incredibly dull and annoying DJs – all rejects from terrestrial radio – state “OK, let’s get back to the blues.” Why do they ever have to *get back* to the music? The music should speak for itself when the listener has paid for the privilege of listening to their favorite genres of music commercial-free? I’ve been paying for a subscription (2 when I had my car) for years now but the next invoice that arrives will go directly into the trash.

Terrestrial means OF THE EARTH. So AM/FM, WiFi, cell phone data streaming – it’s all terrestrial.

> Stern’s former FM home, K-Rock, today confirmed the fact that he was irreplaceable

Uhhh, K-Rock had already flipped to another format and then back to Rock. It’s not 1989, it’s 2009 – radio has changed even if Stern were to come back. Since you attribute FM radio’s failings to Howard Stern leaving and not simply to incompetent management to what do you attribute “SiriusXM” narrowly avoiding bankruptcy? Is it not Stern’s (admittedly Sirius’s “flagship” property) fault Sirius did not accumulate the number of subs it had originally envisioned? Or is that simply “incompetent management”?

It took all of 2 minutes to type and find an article with the google search – internet radio royalty fee

AC station WBEB (B101)/Philadelphia has ceased streaming its signal online as of Sunday, March 15. The move comes in protest of online music royalty rates, which have nearly doubled in the last three years. Even under a new agreement with music rights group SoundExchange, the rates will continue to increase through 2015. B101 owner Jerry Lee says the rate increases are excessive and will ultimately limit the ability of listeners to receive music online. He estimates that by 2015, nearly half of all the revenue that WBEB would be able to generate from streaming music online would go to SoundExchange for royalty fees, making streaming an unviable business option.