Ads on Satellite Radio

Aug 17, 2006

Ads on Satellite Radio

From several sources in the last week:

"Google announced a partnership with satellite radio firm XM that will allow advertisers to use Google's technology to buy commercial time on XM stations."

Here's why I'm filing this under "Impractical": Why should I pay to listen to satellite radio and have to listen to ads? Besides, I actually like hearing static on radio: it reminds me that, despite its attempts to usher in the Age of Perfection, technology isn't. Nor can it make people perfect.

That's why I don't have cable tv: I can't see paying $300 or $600 a year to watch advertising. In any case, the $100 Radio Shack rotating antenna above my house picks up about a dozen tv stations out where I live, about 50 miles from the nearest really big city.

Plus, I get a bonus from the pod-shaped device situated on my roof: makes my neighbors nervously ask what it is.

Posted at 01:01 AM in Impractical | Permalink

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Aug 17, 2006