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  1. 4PackinMB 04/25/2007 at 2:27 PM #

    Bo,

    Sounds like you know what we’re talking about regarding Carolina Beach Music. We have a station here in MB that is dedicated to it, plays 24/7, so XM would be alittle short of that. By the way, its SOs time once again down here, time to kick up some heels tonight and the rest of the week!

  2. noah 04/25/2007 at 2:28 PM #

    The XM/Sirius merger has not been approved yet. Speculation is that if they merged, XM would get the rights to Stern, the NFL and probably NASCAR.

    However, XM radio has promised its listeners that if there is a merger, current customers won’t see an increase in their bill. There are about eight million XM subscribers and I think there are three million Sirius subscribers.

    That means that the three million additional subscribers have to match the added costs of picking up the tabs for Stern’s contract, the NFL contract and the NASCAR contract. Either that…or XM sees those three million additional subscribers as being POTENTIALLY worth more than the value of those contracts.

    But right now, there’s not been anything substantial (just rumors) about what content changes will come.

  3. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 2:28 PM #

    McPete

    Hell, I hate paying for anything, especially when it’s been free for all of my life. I felt, and still feel, that same way about paying for cable TV. But, I have to admit, and as others have said, what was once plausible is now outdated and passe. As long as there’s $$$ to be made from almost everyone in the general public, someone, somewhere, will figure the next new way to spoil us. We’ll simply pay the fees, the expanding taxes, new FCC add-ons as they continue to mount, and we’ll then go on down the road whistling to XM radio.

    Can’t really fight that thinking, it’s what we’re all about.

  4. branjawn 04/25/2007 at 2:39 PM #

    [I haven't read all comments on this post, so forgive me if I'm off]
    I bought XM last fall due to my unfortunate moving to upstate NY. I live in the “mountains” and reception was horribly fickle. Took the thing back. It didn’t work very well on the drive from NC to NY either even with the mobile antennae.

  5. noah 04/25/2007 at 2:40 PM #

    “Can’t really fight that thinking, it’s what we’re all about.”

    Sure you can. You can continue to listen to terrestial radio for free. Or you can get an iPod and listen to several MILLION podcasts. For free. Or you can listen to CDs or tapes (do those still work?). You can get a shortwave radio kit and listen to stuff from around the world. For free. There are still plenty of internet radio stations that you can listen to for free.

    And it’s “bush” league….”Busch” is the name of a beer manufacturer.

  6. packbackr04 04/25/2007 at 2:40 PM #

    your right Rick, my bad, but their article is totally erroneous.

    also, i hear javi signed yesterday???? any word on that? AND it looks like Julius Mays and CJ Williams are picking up some credibility in their junior seasons. sounds like Sid and Co. did well to get in early with these guys.

    any word on SMith signing his LOI yet?

  7. CaptainCraptacular 04/25/2007 at 2:43 PM #

    *So we get the 680 guys when here but when at FSU — we get their announcers (who are lousy by the way).*

    Gene Deckerhoff, the play by play guy of FSU is one of my favorite announcers out there. Definitely not lousy. Their color guy is not too bad either.

    A few facts you may not know about him (if you care): Deckerhoff has been the background stadium PA announcer in EAs NCAA sports game for a few years (not sure about the 2007 version), but I think so. Deckerhoff also calls all the Tampa Bucs games, so if you like the Bucs at all, you’ve probably heard him there as well. An interesting note about Bucs radio is that Deckerhoff (FSU play by play) teamed with Scott Brantley (UF color) for many years till the end of the 2005 season. Despite their arch-rival college allegiances, they made a great team when calling Bucs games. I guess if you heard Gary Hahn team with Mick Mixon for Panthers broadcasts, it would be a similar situation as Deckerhoff and Brantley were.

  8. noah 04/25/2007 at 2:43 PM #

    branjawn – what kind of unit was it? Living in a remote location shouldn’t hurt XM radio reception.

    Delphi makes a unit that’s kind of like a walkman or an ipod (a mobile unit, in other words) that has the antennae in the headphones. I don’t think it would work in the car.

    The only time my XM gets spotty reception is if I’m in the mountains and I’m in the lane directly BESIDE the mountain on the northern side of the rock. You have to be able to get a decent path between you and the satellite, which is always going to be south of you.

  9. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 2:44 PM #

    Lee is on a roll!!! How much more can one lap hold?

  10. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 2:47 PM #

    That’s kind of confusing. But busch beer, is actually bush league.

  11. packbackr04 04/25/2007 at 2:59 PM #

    geez guys, sorry for the misspelling. but can anyone help me with the Tracy Smith signing. is it ever going to get done?

  12. highonlowe 04/25/2007 at 3:02 PM #

    Very true about the north side of a mtn, noah. Also mentionable is that if you live in a crowded radio market, the internal FM-transmitter in the XM/Sirius units can be interferred with pretty easily. But the correction is as simple as changing the frequeny on both the unit and your dial.

  13. noah 04/25/2007 at 3:02 PM #

    (If you had misspelled chrysanthemum, I wouldn’t have said anything)

    The absence of Tracy Smith’s signature on an LOI is probably a reliable indicator of the absence of a qualifying SAT score in his transcript.

  14. noah 04/25/2007 at 3:05 PM #

    Someone told me you could buy an FM modulator that actually boosts XMs little modulator in the unit. I don’t know if that’s true…I would think the FCC would frown upon such a thing.

    I listen to 107.7 to get my XM signal. Occassionally, I have to flip over to the 88s to get a good signal.

  15. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 3:11 PM #

    The news on Tracy Smith’s signing is all coming from busch league sources.

  16. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 3:18 PM #

    Yep, the current XM unit, requires a BEXKR-8079-50868-0332 modulator to really work properly. It just so happens that they’re available everywhere that you already bought and paid for you original equipment. Of course, all additional sales taxes, and further FCC regulating fees, also apply.

  17. old13 04/25/2007 at 3:20 PM #

    GREAT! More Foulup! Wolfpack Nation can’t win for losing!

  18. CaptainCraptacular 04/25/2007 at 3:26 PM #

    I use a Cassette adapter with my XM head unit. The quality isn’t terrible (not great either, but not terrible). And I don’t have to worry about FM interference problems. If you have a cassette player and are having troulbe with the FM modulator, try the cheapie cassette adapter.

  19. highonlowe 04/25/2007 at 3:28 PM #

    What’s a cassette?

  20. CaptainCraptacular 04/25/2007 at 3:30 PM #

    wander over to the audiobooks section at Borders and you can mabye find an example of a cassette, circa 1985 😉

  21. highonlowe 04/25/2007 at 3:33 PM #

    To the topic though, I posted some things earlier this morning about the business of baseball that got flagged as spam and I assume deleted. So in summary, if you like economics, statistics, and baseball, read Diamond Dollars by Vince Gennaro.

  22. noah 04/25/2007 at 3:35 PM #

    The modulator is in the radio unit already. For $30, you can get an XM with everything you need. This one just has a little bit stronger signal.

    I think most FM modulators offer something like half-a-watt of signal strength.

    Don’t worry…the FCC isn’t involved.

  23. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 3:47 PM #

    noah, I’m just teasing. But it’s just like everything else, upgrade here, upgrade there, don’t even consider the cost of it all. Just fork it over and keep up with the new technology, you caveman.

  24. redfred2 04/25/2007 at 3:58 PM #

    News update, someone just walked into Lee Fowler’s office and dropped a brand new, just introduced, 4 watt XM modulator right in his lap. Free of charge, with nothing needed in return and no strings attached. The man is in the proverbial catbird seat I tell you.

    Oh yeah, there was one bush beer included in the box also.

  25. lush 04/25/2007 at 4:01 PM #

    wow red is on fire today!

    who cares about busch anyway? there is only one king and his name is budweiser.

    boy i hope i spelled that right

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