I just read the post below this one – a great and interesting piece by my colleague Robin Valk – regarding the iPhone and Pandora’s wildly successful app for it. As he points out, it is a huge step forward as it brings together many of the things that need to be present whenever [...]
Categories: Digital, Music, Programming, Satellite Radio
Tagged: Content, E Street Radio, Micro-channels, radio, Satellite Radio, Sirius, Springsteen
I’ve written about these satellite radio micro-channels before here and here and I hate to sound like a broken record, but I will.
Investing in creative, compelling programming pays off.
Sirius just announced that Coldplay will take over one of their channels (Alt Nation) for ten days beginning Friday, June 13th. The launch of the channel, Coldplay [...]
Categories: Commercial, Digital, Internet, Localism, Music, Podcasting, Production, Programming, Satellite Radio, Strategy
Tagged: Alt Nation, Coldplay Nation, Programming, radio, Sirius
I’m Just Sayin’….
I’ve written before about why I think satellite radio is great – here and here. Basically it boils down to the fact that the satellite services can take advantage of the fact that they have the Power of the Platform.
And while that’s all still true, I want to take a brief break from [...]
Categories: Digital, Music, Programming, Satellite Radio, Strategy
Tagged: Music, satelllite radio, Sirius, Springsteen
Tick-tock.
It’s been two months since the U.S. Department of Justice approved the merger of the two U.S. satellite radio companies, XM and Sirius. That was supposed to be the hard part. It was thought that the FCC approval was soon to follow. It was a mere formality. As I’ve written about here and here – [...]
Categories: Digital, Satellite Radio
Tagged: Merger, Satellite Radio, Sirius, XM
A lot has already been written and said about the DOJ’s approval of the XM-Sirius merger. A popular view is that the approval amounts to nothing more than yet another U.S. government bailout.
A column in today’s Washington Post by Steve Pearlstein takes this view.
It’s a reasonable point of view. The fact is, as Pearlstein points [...]
Categories: Music, Satellite Radio
Tagged: Competition, Merger, Satellite Radio, Sirius, XM