Today's Chicago Sun-Times article, When the FCC gags come off, highlights what I consider to be the most advantageous aspect of satellite radio: unrestricted content.
Highlighting XM Satellite Radio's show Opie and Anthony, Sirius Satellite Radio's current hip-hop 'shocker' Shade 45, and of course the upcoming debut of Howard Stern in January 2006 - the underlying concept stands out: you can finally listen to radio in the same format that you speak with each other.
It has less to do with how 'shocking' these 'shock jocks' can get, and more on freeing up the ability to listen to content in an Adult format.
WLS-AM (890) afternoon host Roe Conn says, "There is the 'Sopranos' school of thought. Which means that you can finally sound on the air like everybody around you sounds. In the office, people are always dropping the F-bomb or the S-word or the MF. ... So it sort of widens the boundaries to make you sound like everybody else is sounding."
"It's all about being able to discuss sometimes adult subject matter plain and clear," Anthony Cumia of Opie & Anthony says, "without having to go through all the ritual that you would have to go through on traditional broadcast radio just to make the point, just to get the conversation started, to get people up to speed as to what you're talking about."
It's about time!!
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