Droxy (Digital Radio) http://www.droxy.com Droxy (Digital Radio) http://www.droxy.com/media/feedlogo.gif Droxy (Digital Radio) http://www.droxy.com en-us Copyright 2008 Blogsmith, LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/XM Nabs Willie Nelsonhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/06/29/xm-nabs-willie-nelson/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/29/xm-nabs-willie-nelson/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/29/xm-nabs-willie-nelson/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Rumors of this were running around recently, but it's now a confirmed deal. Loveable, pot-head bio-diesel salesman Willie Nelson is coming to XM Radio with a whole channel to himself.

The new channel will replace "Hank's Place" (channel 13) and will be, quite predictably, called  "Willie's Place" effective July 10.

Namesake, Willie Nelson, will play cretive director for the new offering. Possibly the coolest part of all this, XM is building new studios for "Willie's Place" at Nelson's BioDiesel Truck Stop in Carl's Corner, Texas. The channel will begin broadcasting live from Carl's Corner in 2007.

Willie is a hep cat, and this shoud bring a depth of alterna-county programing to XM that SIRIUS can't currently match. With Country being a popular segment amongst a large portion of the US population, bringing a heavyweight name like Nelson on board can only be good for XM.

Read the press release here.
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]]>Grant Robertson2006-06-29T14:38:00+00:00XM Applies For New Patenthttp://www.droxy.com/2006/06/20/xm-applies-for-new-patent/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/20/xm-applies-for-new-patent/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/20/xm-applies-for-new-patent/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

This is patent non-sense, as it's one of those ideas that isn't actually so much an idea as it is the natural progression of things. However,  XM Satellite Radio has applied for a patent to incorporate HD radio transmitters into satellite radio recivers. Instead of the current FM modulators available in most radio models, XM seeks to add HD capability allowing a portable radio what is essentially a wireless digital input to a car audio system.

In the patent application, the company notes that its "high quality digital signal broadcast by XM Satellite Radio is ideally received by a digital satellite receiver for best audio reproduction, but in many instances an analog frequency modulation technique is utilized to reproduce the digital signal to take advantage of existing FM receiver car audio hardware.". As satellite radio owners know, "high quality digital signal" is a little bit of a misnomer, it's not exactly CD quality. An HD Radio modulator might help slightly, but you're still reproducing a compressed digital signal that is full of artifacts and noise.

Of course, you can patent just about anything these days. The entire patent application can be read here [FMQB.com] as a PDF.

[via FMQB]
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]]>Grant Robertson2006-06-20T17:43:00+00:00XM Seen Benefiting From Lower Delphi Strike Riskhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/06/12/xm-seen-benefiting-from-lower-delphi-strike-risk/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/12/xm-seen-benefiting-from-lower-delphi-strike-risk/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/12/xm-seen-benefiting-from-lower-delphi-strike-risk/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Friday, GM, Delphi, and the United Auto Workers announced new agreements that expand attrition efforts at Delphi and  push back court litigation until Aug. 11. This demonstrates a minimized risk of an employee strike at Delphi, which has negatively affected XM's stock price over recent months, according to UBS Investment Research analyst Lucas Binder.

"While we believe there would be minimal impact to XM's radio production from a strike, the detriment to GM's production and sales of XM radios in GM cars would be negatively impacted," said Binder.

Given the other external pressures faced by XM, it's nice to see some good news for a change. Even so, XMSR slipped another 21 cents to 13.39 before today's close.

[Source: Forbes]
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]]>DelphiGeneral MotorsGeneralMotorsXM Satellite RadioXmSatelliteRadioXMSRGrant Robertson2006-06-12T16:19:00+00:00Two New SIRIUS Hosts Announcedhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/06/12/two-new-sirius-hosts-announced/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/12/two-new-sirius-hosts-announced/http://www.droxy.com/2006/06/12/two-new-sirius-hosts-announced/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Today SIRIUS announced that NFL Legend Jerry Rice will be hosting a show on the SIRIUS NFL Radio (channel 124). This follows last week's announcement that Andrew Wilkow will be hosting a Conservative talk show on SIRIUS Patriot channel.

Last week, on June 8, SIRIUS announced that Andre Wilkow, who is called "the next generation of talk radio" according the the press release, will be starting a new show on August 1 this year. Wilkow has been hosting a daily talk show on WGY- AM in Albany NY, as well as a weekend show on WABC-AM in New Your City. He will be hosting a weekday show from 12-3pm ET,  airing on Channel 144 SIRIUS Patriot. Wilkow said of his move "Moving to SIRIUS lets me take that style and passion nationwide. I am honored to be given this opportunity."

But the wait for Jerry Rice is much shorter, as he will start June 13th co-hosting "The Afternoon Blitz" from 3-7pm ET with Adam Schein. He will be heard part time, being only on three times a week throughout the year.  Rice joins quite a team of past players that are currently on NFL Radio on SIRIUS. Other past NFL players on NFL Radio include Cris Carter, Randy Cross, Gil Brandt, Tim Ryan, Pat Kirwan, Solomon Wilcots and Adam Schein.

You can read the releases from these links
Jerry Rice
Andrew Wilkow

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]]>ConservativeJerry RiceJerryRiceNFLNFL RadioNflRadioPatriotSIRIUSMike Hamilton2006-06-12T12:22:00+00:00Deepak Chopra Signs with SIRIUShttp://www.droxy.com/2006/05/05/deepak-chopra-signs-with-sirius/http://www.droxy.com/2006/05/05/deepak-chopra-signs-with-sirius/http://www.droxy.com/2006/05/05/deepak-chopra-signs-with-sirius/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

SIRIUS continues their signing ways with the announcement of the latest star coming to SIRIUS Stars 102. On May 4 SIRIUS released that they had signed Deepak Chopra as a host of a weekly 3 hour live call-in show on Saturdays. His show is scheduled to start in the summer later this year. Deepak Chopra, the author of over 42 books, said "I will be focusing on four areas -- success; love, sexuality and relationships; well being; and spirituality. My hope is to develop a more personal relationship with a back and forth communication, something that I haven't been able to do with my books."
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]]>ChopraDeepakDeepak ChopraDeepakChopraSIRIUSMike Hamilton2006-05-05T02:36:00+00:00Libsyn Podcast Listeners Numbers Reportedhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/04/21/libsyn-podcast-listeners-numbers-reported/http://www.droxy.com/2006/04/21/libsyn-podcast-listeners-numbers-reported/http://www.droxy.com/2006/04/21/libsyn-podcast-listeners-numbers-reported/#commentsFiled under: ,

Over at Libsyn's Soundoff blog they posted a report on their numbers for the first quarter of this year. What does the post cover? It starts with the number of unique IP addresses to libsyn.com requesting feeds and media files. This is a huge number reported. They have over 45 million unique IP addresses for the first quarter, and this is a 200% increase from the previous quarter. Thats from the previous quarter, not to the previous year.

The post then breaks down the statistics on the podcatchers being used by those users. Apple's iTunes still has the vast majority at around 72% which is reported as being almost a 5% drop from the previous quarter. The next category is web browsers at around 22% of which Internet Explorer makes up the largest share at 12% of the overall numbers.

More after the jump.

I think that 12% could be a little deceiving, as any Microsoft Windows application that uses some of the built in controls and do not set the headers to send an application name will come across as Internet Explorer. I ran in this when doing some IIS (Internet Information Server) log data mining at a previous job where the custom client application used did not do this and the requests came in as being from Internet Explorer and could not tell they were from the custom application.

Libsyn then breaks down what is being podcast. Of course audio is still the overwhelming winner in that stat with around 88% of the files served. Video comes in at around 5% which they say is a 2-3 % increase from the fourth quarter of 2005. They then go into general numbers on shows and their size. Across all of their 3800 users over 1 million media files are served each day. The impressions (see post for definition) for the most popular shows are over 100,000 a day, and are in the 6 figures for audience size (see post for definition).

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]]>listenerlistenerspodcastpodcastingMike Hamilton2006-04-21T11:55:00+00:00Pope Gets An iPodhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/03/26/pope-gets-an-ipod/http://www.droxy.com/2006/03/26/pope-gets-an-ipod/http://www.droxy.com/2006/03/26/pope-gets-an-ipod/#commentsFiled under:

No, really. He did. The Pope got an iPod. On March 3rd, employees of Vatican Radio gave Pope Benedict XVI a 2GB Nano loaded with Vatican Radio programming in several languages and some classical music. You have to wonder if someone sneaked on some Eminem or Tenacious D. I now have images of the Pope up late, sitting in front of his computer in nothing but that cool hat and some socks, checking Kazaa for tracks of his favorite Italian pop band and William Orbit remixes of Barber's Adagio for Strings. So, if one of your less tech-savvy family members tells you she doesn't know how to work her iPod, you can snidely reply, "C'mon, even the friggin' Pope knows how to use one!"

[via rediff.com]
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]]>Gilad Rosner2006-03-26T16:44:00+00:00BigChampagne Introduces More Comprehensive Producthttp://www.droxy.com/2006/03/15/bigchampagne-introduces-more-comprehensive-product/http://www.droxy.com/2006/03/15/bigchampagne-introduces-more-comprehensive-product/http://www.droxy.com/2006/03/15/bigchampagne-introduces-more-comprehensive-product/#commentsFiled under: ,

BigChampagne, an online media measurement company, introduced its new BCDash product at South by Southwest this week. Until recently, BigChampagne could tell you how music was being downloaded in the p2p space. Imagine if you were a record label, and you wanted to know how a certain band was faring in the illegal download space (hypothetically, since your company no doubt screamed bloody muder about it being illegally shared when discussing such things publicly). You could go to BigChampagne and find out downloading trends and where your band was doing well; Wired ran an article on them 2 1/2 years ago. Now, BigChampagne can still help you, but they have augmented their data with sales information from the likes of iTunes, Wal-Mart, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, and Napster. The company's name comes from the idea of using the data to see what bubbles up to the top. On a song by song or band by band basis, one can see what's hot right now, without waiting for SoundScan data to arrive, which doesn't really track what people are listening to anyway. BCDash gives practically a real-time view into music trends, allowing, as the Wall Street Journal reports, record companies to adjust tours to give more exposure to a certain band in a specific locale, or to rapidly change a promotion.

[via FMQB]
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]]>Gilad Rosner2006-03-15T22:06:00+00:00David Lee Roth Complains About CBS Managementhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/03/11/david-lee-roth-complains-about-cbs-management/http://www.droxy.com/2006/03/11/david-lee-roth-complains-about-cbs-management/http://www.droxy.com/2006/03/11/david-lee-roth-complains-about-cbs-management/#commentsFiled under: ,

David Lee Roth, who was put on the air in some markets as a replacement to Howard Stern, complained about managerial interference during an interview on the Howard 100 news show on Sirius this past week. As reported in the New York Daily News, the aging ex-rocker called his bosses "social retards" and other colorful names in response to orders that he program his show for the Lynyrd Skynyrd set (...hey man, is that Freedom Rock?!) and stop speaking Spanish on the air. Howard Stern, who is facing a lawsuit from CBS for breach of contract, reported the news on HowardStern.com, and according to Billboard Radio Monitor, Stern commiserates with The Grapes of Roth: "Bring a guy in, $4 million a year. Destroy him. And you can see they're setting him up to not pay him because they're saying he's not cooperating." Apparently, Diamond Dave will also soon be given a female news reader a la Robin Quivers to play off of. January's ratings for Roth show a steep decline in listenership of his target 18-34 year old audience in New York - 13.8% to 1.3% as reported in the Daily News - but that's no surprise. Those are some mighty big, crass, sophomoric shoes Dave has to fill. 
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]]>Gilad Rosner2006-03-11T13:08:00+00:00iTunes U launches from Apple: no diploma requiredhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/01/27/itunes-u-launches-from-apple-no-diploma-required/http://www.droxy.com/2006/01/27/itunes-u-launches-from-apple-no-diploma-required/http://www.droxy.com/2006/01/27/itunes-u-launches-from-apple-no-diploma-required/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

iTunes U will really do wonders for kids that want to cut their college classes. Apple is providing the new service free for universities and colleges (yes, there is a difference since one can grant Ph.D.'s and one can't) so that schools can host educational content such as boring lectures, and those not-so-popular interviews that happen from time to time. Actually, we're being a little facetious because we heard some cool stuff in our college days; freshman year was the best three years of our lives! Apple indicated this is a hosted service, which makes us wonder if they're trying to be the Google of the academic world. After all, hosting the collective knowledge of the United States higher educational system isn't a bad business strategy, now is it?
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]]>Apple iTunesAppleItunesDroxyKevin C. Tofel2006-01-27T10:59:00+00:00If we were Microsoft, here's how we would enter the PMP spacehttp://www.droxy.com/2006/01/26/if-we-were-microsoft-heres-how-we-would-enter-the-pmp-space/http://www.droxy.com/2006/01/26/if-we-were-microsoft-heres-how-we-would-enter-the-pmp-space/http://www.droxy.com/2006/01/26/if-we-were-microsoft-heres-how-we-would-enter-the-pmp-space/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Concept PMPThe market is all abuzz with thoughts that Microsoft has had about enough of Apple and its iPod. Not typically known for hardware, you can't argue with Microsoft's success on the Xbox brand, but MSN Music is flea on the dog we know as iTunes. Microsoft wouldn't bring YAPMP (yet another Portable Media Player) to market unless is was multi-functional; a device that plays games as well was digital audio and video for example. If we were Microsoft, here's what we'd do:
  • Add Podcasting support in MSN Music. It's RSS for cryin' out loud; you just put RSS support in IE7, so you know what we're talkin' about!
  • Get on the horn with XM and integrate their new Passport receiver into your device. Portability with satellite radio with gaming = fun.
  • Work with the Windows Mobile OEM's (you remember them, right?) and get some killer VGA screens. We don't want any of that QVGA junk; 640 x 480 is the lowest res we should have to accept.
  • Build in some WiFi support or better yet, piggyback some 3G cellular data connectivity so we can buy digital music whenever we want.
  • Add Podcasting support to MSN Music. Oops. Did we already mention that?
Let's open up the floor; you folks have the microphone, so what would you do for a successful entry into this market? Does Microsoft stand a chance?
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]]>DroxyMicrosoftpodcastRSSXMKevin C. Tofel2006-01-26T14:53:00+00:00Stern crucifying Rolling Stone over Kanye West coverhttp://www.droxy.com/2006/01/25/stern-crucifying-rolling-stone-over-kanye-west-cover/http://www.droxy.com/2006/01/25/stern-crucifying-rolling-stone-over-kanye-west-cover/http://www.droxy.com/2006/01/25/stern-crucifying-rolling-stone-over-kanye-west-cover/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Passion of Kanye West on Rolling StoneWe haven't swung by the local convenience store for the latest Rolling Stone mag, and after hearing Howard Stern's rant today, we're not sure if we will. The whole Kanye as Jesus thing (complete with a crown of thorns) might be a major put-off to any Christian readers, which is ironic since Stern is Jewish. So what's his Howardness's beef? Apparently Mr. Private Parts was shot in the exact same way for Rolling Stone some ten-odd years back when he wasn't the $500 million dollar man. Howard Stern as Jesus?So why didn't we ever see Howard as Jesus? Rolling Stone head-honchos figured that the cover shot would be too controversial for the mag; like that never happens, right?

What's the deal? Kanye plays Jesus as an African-American but Stern can't play the part as a white Jewish-American? Maybe it's just us, but Rolling Stone makes it clear that what was controversial ten years ago sells magazines today.
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]]>DroxyHoward SternHowardSternKanye WestKanyeWestRollingStoneKevin C. Tofel2006-01-25T15:41:00+00:00XM redefines "hot pants"http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/28/xm-redefines-hot-pants/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/28/xm-redefines-hot-pants/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/28/xm-redefines-hot-pants/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Old XM batteryThat's right: if you've been carrying one of those portable XM players in your pocket, that warm sensation just might be the battery. All three of the XM portable players are susceptible to overheating batteries, so get that thing out of your pants and check with XM for a new power supply. The voluntary recall affects the Delphi MyFi, Pioneer AirWare, and the Tao XM2GO, which we're now dubbing the "XM2HoT."

Read [via Engadget]
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]]>batteriesDroxyrecallXMKevin C. Tofel2005-12-28T14:31:00+00:00Tune in to....Google?http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/15/tune-in-to-google/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/15/tune-in-to-google/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/15/tune-in-to-google/#commentsFiled under: ,


GoogleIt's a big, bold move, but one that a company like Google can pull off. With so many individual music sites like iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, and more, this was bound to happen. Google announced a centralized music search that will let you find music by just about any search or metadata term you want.

Google has initially partnered with Amazon, iTunes and Rhapsody so you can purchase digital music right through the search results. When will we see browsers in our digital radios so we can just search for the "tunage" we want to listen to? Hmmm....imagine a future with no radio channels except for the personalized ones you create. Now THAT rocks!

 
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]]>Kevin C. Tofel2005-12-15T11:01:51+00:00Reader question: Can the S50 record while undocked?http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/12/reader-question-can-the-s50-record-while-undocked/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/12/reader-question-can-the-s50-record-while-undocked/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/12/reader-question-can-the-s50-record-while-undocked/#commentsFiled under: , , ,


Sirius s50Droxy reader, hez, is looking for some help. hez writes: "Question! Help!: I am interested in this unit primarily so I can listen to Stern. I commute via my car or on train and from what I understand the unit only recieves a "live" signal while docked. How will I be able to listen to Stern each day if I have the unit with me on the train in the hours the show is on?  Originally I thought that I could record Monday's show and listen to it the following day, but then I wouldn't be able to record the next days show because I will have the unit with me. I guess this is assuming that the Stern show will still be at its terrestrial radio time, right?"

It all sounds like a perfect plan: record your radio programming on the Sirius S50 while on the go. Get our thoughts after the jump!


At the risk of getting bashed again by readers (see the comments on my original S50 post last week), I'll disclose that I do not own this unit. I don't work for XM as one all-wise fellow assumed either; I'm strictly giving my opinion based on the specifications that Sirius lists on their site. It's a blog, folks: the whole point of it is to give my opinion and I, of course, welcome yours too!

I think that hez is out of luck if he will be listening to a saved recording of  Howard Stern on the S50 while commuting. Sure, hez can listen to something he's previously recorded. However, if hez is commuting without his S50 dock (and antenna), then the unit is only good to listen to during that time; not to record.

I still believe that this a poor direction for Sirius to take with a portable device. It really doesn't add any new capabilities that you can't accomplish today with an .mp3 player, online streaming of Sirius and some audio capture software. However, the challenge faced by Sirius (and XM for that matter) is how to make the antennas small enough to embed in a portable device. That's the bottleneck: getting the signal to a portable device.

Hez, I think you're out of luck unless your commuting schedule doesn't conflict with Howard's schedule. It's too bad Howard doesn't consider making his episodes available in a podcast. Then you could pull down episodes to your computer while you're sleeping using a podcatcher; when you wake up, you can just synch those 'casts to any basic portable audio device!

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]]>Kevin C. Tofel2005-12-12T08:18:13+00:00Moto's iRadio is the Best Radio?http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/03/motos-iradio-is-the-best-radio/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/03/motos-iradio-is-the-best-radio/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/03/motos-iradio-is-the-best-radio/#commentsFiled under:

We're quite intrigued by a bit of news that came across our desk, Motorola's iRadio has been named best radio service at the 2005 Digital Entertainment and Media Excellence Awards in L.A.  I personally haven't been following the iRadio saga, although Droxy's Ryan Saghir has.  Apparently an iRadio enabled phone takes Internet radio and MP3s and plays them, "seamlessly" transitioning from just the cell to the car over (presumably) Bluetooth.  The phone on the iRadio website looks reminiscent of the original ROKR which might be why they're not dropping the unsuccessful phone line altogether.  Regardless, the concept is getting some major attention, but only time will tell if it's really worth paying some attention to. 
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]]>Randall Bennett2005-12-03T12:38:08+00:00Radio trying to reinvent and competehttp://www.droxy.com/2005/12/02/radio-trying-to-reinvent-and-compete/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/02/radio-trying-to-reinvent-and-compete/http://www.droxy.com/2005/12/02/radio-trying-to-reinvent-and-compete/#commentsFiled under: ,


Satellite radioRandall's post yesterday on Clear Channel had great timing with regards to the radio industry. Truth be told, traditional radio is dying a slow, painful death. When satellite radio hit the airwaves, radio said "Why would you pay for something you get for free?" I suppose that the radio industry paid no attention to the pay-TV model that cable and satellite adopted in the last few decades.

Ironically, the radio industry is asking the same question today, but this time they are looking for a different answer. John Hogan, the CEO of Clear Channel's radio organization, just asked "Why would you pay for something you get for free?" This time he expects to win customers back with a similar radio model that's used by XM and Sirius. More channels and better quality, but all for free. Clear Channel expects to upgrade over 95% of their 1,200 radio stations to digital in the next two years.

Could we see digitial terrestrial bring a wave of new portable receivers or iPods with timeshifting and recording ability for digital or HD radio? Will podcasts be adopted by mainstream radio? Who knows, but one thing is certain: if the radio industry doesn't react quick enough this late in the game, you won't hear anything but static on that dial. What do you think terrestrial radio needs to do in order to compete? Or...is it too late?


 
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]]>Kevin C. Tofel2005-12-02T16:03:00+00:00iPod one of Oprah's favorite thingshttp://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/ipod-one-of-oprahs-favorite-things/http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/ipod-one-of-oprahs-favorite-things/http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/ipod-one-of-oprahs-favorite-things/#commentsFiled under:

oprahOprah gave away a boatload of Video iPods (and Crackberrys, but who cares about that) to an audience full of Katrina relief workers on her "My Favorite Things" episode of her show. The show was dedicated to the Hurricane Katrina relief workers who had no clue they were on her Favorite Things show. They also received a bunch of other stuff like UGG boots, cashmire sweaters, cookie dough, and some other stuff we really don't care about.

TUAW somewhat agrees with Oprah on this one, but has some other suggestions that might just one up the billionaire.

 
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]]>Ryan Saghir2005-11-23T20:26:40+00:00Ford Fusion going after the iPod Generation?http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/ford-fusion-going-after-the-ipod-generation/http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/ford-fusion-going-after-the-ipod-generation/http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/ford-fusion-going-after-the-ipod-generation/#commentsFiled under: ,

Ford Fusion iPodSeems like Ford is hoping on improving their image amongst the younger, hipper, and digital music crazed masses loosly given the moniker the iPod Generation. In one of their latest ad spots for the Ford Fusion, a commercial dubbed "Particles," caught the attention of the iPodderrati as it opens up with a young man using his iPod on the subway and then later showing him driving a Fusion.

Hidden message: "dude, if you like the iPod, you'll LOVE the Fusion!"

Not sure how well it'll work out for them, but hey, it's fun to see iPods used as props in commericials now.

[via ipodnn] 
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]]>Ryan Saghir2005-11-23T18:23:09+00:00Howard Stern replacement in St. Louishttp://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/howard-stern-replacement-in-st-louis/http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/howard-stern-replacement-in-st-louis/http://www.droxy.com/2005/11/23/howard-stern-replacement-in-st-louis/#commentsFiled under: ,

Hoo hoo Robin!Howard Stern's replacement has been named for St. Louis' KPNT-FM (105.7 The Point). Rover's Morning Glory will be his replacement when he leaves their airwaves in his last broadcast on Friday, December 16gh.

During the period while Howard is gone to when Rover's Morning Glory debuts, The Point will be playing lots and lots of music. While this is being dubbed as a "new era in morning radio" for St. Louis, this is definitely isn't going to be "the era of huge ratings" as dedicated fans make their move to Sirius in January.

 
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]]>Ryan Saghir2005-11-23T16:41:12+00:00