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1. 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 03:10:21 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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   @amerika @lauren @pieist you forgot: wireless frequencies you need a FCC license to use (5g, starlink).
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:13:04 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     The thing with satellite radio is it's like cable TV or streaming, instead of answering to the FCC you answer to the much more lax censors there, who are worried more about subscriber count than ad revenue.
     
     I remember in the mid 2000s Sirius was running ads about how Howard Stern uncensored is on our radio we're letting people listen free for a week or so to hear him. Nowadays nobody gives a shit about Howard Stern, Sirius merged with XM because neither could make a profit, and SXM has changed their business model hard because you can listen to any podcaster swear nowadays but you can't use a podcast app to get weather in an aircraft or play music in a store without having to pay for an extra performance license.
   • ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:13:05 JST ≠

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     @PhenomX6 @lauren @pieist

     The FCC has been a political organization for years, and it just about strangled radio before apparently satellite radio came along and finished the job.

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:14:02 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     It's still around but Clear Channel and the like killed off a lot of the weird stations, other than the low power station that you can barely receive 80% of the time.
   • Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:14:03 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     @amerika @PhenomX6 @pieist C'mon, radio is still around. In almost exactly three hours I'll be speaking to something like a million listeners on network radio.

   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:23:01 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     It's piggybacking on the XM network. The Sirius Network was total garbage while the XM network had a lot more provisions built in along with higher sound quality. You can get stock quotes on many XM era radios for example, and then later GPS car head units with XM brought in traffic (for a few bucks a month). That's why the newer radios extended it to have even more channels.
     
     They no longer sell new Sirius devices anymore.
   • ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:23:02 JST ≠

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     @PhenomX6 @lauren @pieist

     Ugh. Costs get passed down, and bloat crushes good technologies.

   • ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 12:37:53 JST ≠

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     @PhenomX6 @lauren @pieist

     I keep meaning to get a satellite radio, but lack time to really listen.

     Besides, downloading an assload of podcasts to a USB works pretty well too.

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