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Originally posted by Steve49589:
I'm interested in a figure...

With all of the complaining about Clear Channel - my first thought is what percentage of US radio stations are owned by CC. Anybody know?
1999 figures: 4,783 AM, 5,766 FM and 2,066 FM Educational stations. Total: 12,615.

Clear Channel owned or operated: 1,200. (Doesn't seem like much, but they control nearly 40% of the listening audience).

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/policy/radio.html

One of the biggest problems - someone living in Cincinnati is now listening to a station programmed from L.A. How exactly does someone in L.A. know what the Cincinnati people want?

I have XM - and I'm happy with it. Sirius is just the same thing packaged differently (albeit $3 more). You'd be happy with either one, I think.

Keep in mind, however, that Sirius is much more cash-strapped than XM. IF one were to fail, it would be Sirius...but I don't think that's going to happen.
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