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Re: Saturday, October 4, 2003
I should add that commercial radio has a split between its customers and its consumers. The customers of commercial radio, as you point out, are their advertisers, not their listeners. The consumers of commercial radio have approximately zero influence on what they hear. They have somewhat more influence over what they hear on noncommercial listener-supported stations, because in those cases they are customers as well as consumers. Satellite radio has a somewhat different model, where the consumers are also customers, but so (in some cases) are the advertisers. That makes satellite radio *far* more accountable to its listeners than regular commercial radio. No wonder the old guard is freaked. There are responses to this message:
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