{"id":1187,"date":"2008-12-03T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2008-12-03T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:10:11","slug":"did-i-call-it-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Did I Call It or What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=269\" target=\"_self\">September 2007 prediction<\/a> on the upcoming Sirius\/XM satellite radio merger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okay, one more and then I\u2019m done: the\u00a0Blues Channel on Sirius Radio.\u00a0 How come they have such a restricted playlist?\u00a0 It\u2019s the same old stuff, all the time, and never any new blues.\u00a0 Apparently they\u2019d rather spend my subscription money on executive salaries, not royalties.\u00a0\u00a0My son tells me XM\u2019s blues channel\u00a0has a larger play list.\u00a0 I\u2019m considering switching over, but what\u2019s holding me back is\u00a0the proposed merger between Sirius and XM.\u00a0 Based on my experience with the Blues Channel, competition is XM\u2019s sole impetus for offering better blues.\u00a0 If the competition goes away, you can bet your bottom dollar the surviving satellite playlist will shrink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that the merger has happened, XM and Sirius customers alike are <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5087231\/sirius-xm-merger-reveals-true-face-fewer-channels-and-sanitized-programming\" target=\"_blank\">up in arms<\/a>.\u00a0 Favorite channels have gone away, playlists have indeed shrunk, commercials are rife, and satellite radio is more terrestrial than ever.\u00a0 What happened to the vision?\u00a0 What happened to the promise?\u00a0 God-damned bean counters and greedy executives, that&#8217;s what happened.\u00a0 Dissatisfied customers . . . and economic hard times . . . are probably going to kill what&#8217;s left of satellite radio.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=734\" target=\"_self\">recently decided<\/a> to run out the clock on my Sirius subscription, which expires at the end of this month.\u00a0 What&#8217;ll I do on my next long car trip?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll check out a few books on CD from the library.\u00a0 No commercials there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My September 2007 prediction on the upcoming Sirius\/XM satellite radio merger: Okay, one more and then I\u2019m done: the\u00a0Blues Channel on Sirius Radio.\u00a0 How come they have such a restricted playlist?\u00a0 It\u2019s the same old stuff, all the time, and never any new blues.\u00a0 Apparently they\u2019d rather spend my subscription money on executive salaries, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}