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   satellite radio advertising

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 24th, 2004 @ 5:50am

   
   

   Satellite radio does have advertising and if any one says differently is lying. I had Satellite radio for 3 months and 70% or more of the stations had advertising. So, why would anyone pay for what they can already get for free?!?!?

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   Just use Shoutcast

   

   tomj, Mar 24th, 2004 @ 7:24am

   
   

   Well, most shoutcast stations don't have commercials.  And if they do and you don't want to listen, just use StationRipper.

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   Commercials free commercial radio...

   

   Bryan Price, Mar 24th, 2004 @ 7:52am

   
   

   I'm currently listening to a commercial radio over the Internet. The really weird/bizarre/zeitgeist thing about it, since it is a commercial station (Clear Channel no less) and with the current webcasting rules about commercials, I'm listening to it totally commercial free. I get an inane sequence mixture of song bits, a woman with a British accent saying "Audio stream returns in moments", self promotion and stupidity

   Pun theater!
   (dog barks in background)
   Male 1: Cockerspaniel.
   Male 2: I would, but he might have worms.
   Male 1: Huhh???????
   Male 3: I get it...
   Sorry.
   

   I understand that this is geared towards their demographic. I also wonder if that were to actually be aired, would that be considered "indecent" and get the DJ fired?
   

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   Re: Just use Shoutcast

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 24th, 2004 @ 8:11am

   
   

   yea...
   
   I often listen to Digitially Imported (di.fm)
   100% ad free... very popular

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   Re: satellite radio advertising

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 24th, 2004 @ 8:45am

   
   

   Which system did you have? XM used to have commercials, but recently got rid of them to better compete with Sirius.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Jim Kloss, Mar 24th, 2004 @ 3:47pm

   
   

   One of the great things about running a small, independent webcast like Whole Wheat Radio is that we can make up humourous 'ads' that don't sound like ads. We just tell people about our experience with various 'products'. It's word-of-mouth advertising and because we're not paid to do it, it's more honest and powerful than paid advertising. And none of sounds like 'ads'. I guess we're not advertising at all huh? Just informing people of music, software, services and cleansing agents they might want to buy.
   
   Big-boy webcasts that used canned ads only increase the little non-commercial webcast potential audience. Thanks AOL, Yahoo and Dead365!

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