In 20 years or less, terrestrial radio will be dead

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Still a lot of listeners but the world is moving to satellite quickly. All cars are including them etc. It's only a matter of time. I switched over to satellite this year and don't miss the commercials one single bit.

Justin will miss Delilah but that's just too bad.
 

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Still a lot of listeners but the world is moving to satellite quickly. All cars are including them etc. It's only a matter of time. I switched over to satellite this year and don't miss the commercials one single bit.

Justin will miss Delilah but that's just too bad.

considering that the people of the United States own the broadcasting frequencies that exist and pass through their bodies, properties, and airspace, it sucks that the government has allowed just a few amount of corporations to dominate terrestrial radio to the point citizens have to pay for the variety they deserve by purchasing satellite radio.

That being said, satellite is way better than terrestrial ever was.
 

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20 years is a long time so you should be right.

I do remember when Stern went to Sirius, people thought it was going to be over for terrestrial in 10 years and look where we are now. Sometimes these things take awhile, especially for car fleets to change over.

Also remember people thinking the stock was going to explode when he went there too. There were people calling up his radio station the day of the announcement like "Howard you made me rich man!!!!" because they bought the stock, but it's been up and down.
 

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I don't think it will be completely dead. There are certain things sat radio cannot replace vs local at this current time .
 

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And the odds of satellite radio being dead 20 years from now is probably higher then the odds of terrestrial not being around 20 years from now.
 

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would think that internet will be everywhere by then and cars will all be connected so good chance IMO that all the radio type stuff will just be streaming and that companies can skip the whole space/satellite thing? 20 years is a ton of time in terms of tech development these days.....we could all be so far off when 5team bumps this bad boy in 2036!
 

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