Uma previsão (pessimista) sobre o satélite (e a rádio paga)

"No one has ever made a penny, anywhere in the world, on subscription-based radio," Smulyan said. "This doesn’t mean that Sirius (Satellite Radio) and XM won’t make it. ... But even if you take the most wildly enthusiastic estimations of their penetration, they will reach 30 million Americans in the next five years, 40 million. Radio ... will probably still reach 275 million people a week"."

Free Radio Biz Tunes Out Sat Gains
Dec. 22, 2005
By Alex Woodson and Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter

aqui há as inevitáveis reacções da indústria do satélite.