From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #20 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Saturday, February 5 2005 Volume 10 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: XM Radio [John Flood ] Re: XM Radio ["Amy ODonnell" ] Re: XM Radio ["Mike Nice" ] Ha! ["Paxety Pages" ] Why satellite radio? [steve7701@theriver.com] Re: Ha! ["Amy ODonnell" ] Re: Ha! ["Paxety Pages" ] Re: Why satellite radio? ["Leslie O." ] Re: Ha! ["Leslie O." ] Re: Ha! ["Amy ODonnell" ] RE: XM Radio ["Steve O'Hearn" ] Re: XM Radio [A Fan ] Re: Ha! [Ben Combee ] RE: XM Radio ["Barry" ] Re: Ha! ["Leslie O." ] Re: Ha! [John Flood ] OT - Satellite Radio [JPovlock@aol.com] Westbury Show [JPovlock@aol.com] Re: Westbury Show ["Dennis J. Majewicz" ] Re: Why satellite radio? ["Dennis J. Majewicz" ] Re: Westbury Show [Samurai27@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:27:57 -0500 From: John Flood Subject: Re: XM Radio I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. steve7701@theriver.com wrote: >I received an e-mail from Lily, the program director at Watercolors >(Channel 71) at XM Satellite Radio. She says they have obtained an >advance copy of Matt's Mood - so maybe those of you with XM might want to >drop them a line requesting they play the heck out of it. Write to >watercolors@xmradio.com > >Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:19:15 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: XM Radio Wondered about that myself. . . Amy - -- John Flood wrote: I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. steve7701@theriver.com wrote: >I received an e-mail from Lily, the program director at Watercolors >(Channel 71) at XM Satellite Radio. She says they have obtained an >advance copy of Matt's Mood - so maybe those of you with XM might want to >drop them a line requesting they play the heck out of it. Write to >watercolors@xmradio.com > >Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:31:25 -0500 From: "Mike Nice" Subject: Re: XM Radio For less than the cost of 1 CD per month I get all the variety I can absorb. And the "no advertising" is great while it lasts. - ----- Original Message ----- > > I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't > say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:00:29 -0500 From: "Paxety Pages" Subject: Ha! Sitting at work listening to Radio Hey Now on the computer and praying that I'm not rammed while driving home by one of the hundreds of stretch Humvee limos on the streets this week - there's a promo for a jazz show - hey, wait, the music bed underneath sounds familiar - it's Freeze Thaw. Ha. un abrazo, juan http://paxety.com/Articles/blog ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:57:55 -0700 (MST) From: steve7701@theriver.com Subject: Why satellite radio? I can only speak for myself - I live in a small town with 2 mediocre commercial FM stations and 1 Public Radio station. When the NPR station went from mostly jazz to all talk format, I took the plunge for satellite radio. I think it's well worth the monthly charge to be able to get in the car for my short commute to work and know I am going to hear MUSIC, not commercials. If I lived in LA, NYC, Chicago, I imagine the choice of free stations is wonderful, and I wouldn't need XM. But not here. As for the no commercials...XM actually went from having commercials on many of its music channels to being all commercial-free. I'm sure this was in response to Sirius doing the same thing. There is talk now of XM and Sirius merging in the future...without the competition, I suppose the commercials could come back. I'll face that if and when it happens. Steve R. Wondered about that myself. . . Amy - -- John Flood wrote: I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:10:55 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: Ha! You are SO bad. . .you sound like you are in Houston. If it's not a HumVee, it's a Ford 150 (or greater) or a Dodge Ram. I drive a SATURN, for heaven's sake! - -- "Paxety Pages" wrote: Sitting at work listening to Radio Hey Now on the computer and praying that I'm not rammed while driving home by one of the hundreds of stretch Humvee limos on the streets this week - there's a promo for a jazz show - hey, wait, the music bed underneath sounds familiar - it's Freeze Thaw. Ha. un abrazo, juan http://paxety.com/Articles/blog ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:44:12 -0500 From: "Paxety Pages" Subject: Re: Ha! No, no - these are streeeeeeeeeettttttttttccccchhhhhhhhh Humvee limos in town for the Super Bowl. They must be at least 35-feet (11-meters) long. I'm sure you saw them in Houston last year. I'm regularly almost rammed by petite women driving common Humvees, F-150s, Dodge Rams and Toyota Land Cruisers (many with the number 3 or 8 on the rear window) while talking on their cell phones and trying to catch a glimpse of whatever DVD the kids are watching in the back seat. un abrazo, juan *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/4/2005 at 8:10 PM Amy ODonnell wrote: >You are SO bad. . .you sound like you are in Houston. If it's not a >HumVee, it's a Ford 150 (or greater) or a Dodge Ram. I drive a SATURN, >for heaven's sake! > >-- "Paxety Pages" wrote: > >Sitting at work listening to Radio Hey Now on the computer and praying that >I'm not rammed while driving home by one of the hundreds of stretch Humvee >limos on the streets this week - there's a promo for a jazz show - hey, >wait, >the music bed underneath sounds familiar - it's Freeze Thaw. Ha. >un abrazo, >juan >http://paxety.com/Articles/blog http://paxety.com/Articles/blog ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:07:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: Why satellite radio? My carpoolers have XM and I am really considering it as well for my turn on the road. While I'm not a big fan of the stations they tend to pick (XM Cafe, Hear Music) the massive variety is super appealing to me. I'm finding that I really need to be alerted to new music in a far more effective way than shuffling my iPod allows, and since I spend 3 hours a day in the car.... It's also a great idea for people like me that span radio zones through the course of their commute-- being just over the Sonoma County border I have real hit-and-miss with both the San Fran and Santa Rosa radio markets. Just MHO. - --Leslie Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:09:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: Ha! > I drive a SATURN, for > heaven's sake! 2000 SL2, 100,000K miles as of Tuesday. :D It's my baby. As for that Super Bowl stuff... wake me when it's over. ;-P - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:12:38 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: Ha! We see them ALL DAY LONG, Sweetie. EVERYBODY from Texas INSISTS on having a larger vehicle than you. I've had the exact same near-misses. I'm wondering who will be the first in Houston to get one of those scaled down tractor-trailers from International. I don't know what those numbers on the back windows mean, however. Amy - -- "Paxety Pages" wrote: No, no - these are streeeeeeeeeettttttttttccccchhhhhhhhh Humvee limos in town for the Super Bowl. They must be at least 35-feet (11-meters) long. I'm sure you saw them in Houston last year. I'm regularly almost rammed by petite women driving common Humvees, F-150s, Dodge Rams and Toyota Land Cruisers (many with the number 3 or 8 on the rear window) while talking on their cell phones and trying to catch a glimpse of whatever DVD the kids are watching in the back seat. un abrazo, juan *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/4/2005 at 8:10 PM Amy ODonnell wrote: >You are SO bad. . .you sound like you are in Houston. If it's not a >HumVee, it's a Ford 150 (or greater) or a Dodge Ram. I drive a SATURN, >for heaven's sake! > >-- "Paxety Pages" wrote: > >Sitting at work listening to Radio Hey Now on the computer and praying that >I'm not rammed while driving home by one of the hundreds of stretch Humvee >limos on the streets this week - there's a promo for a jazz show - hey, >wait, >the music bed underneath sounds familiar - it's Freeze Thaw. Ha. >un abrazo, >juan >http://paxety.com/Articles/blog http://paxety.com/Articles/blog ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:19:08 -0500 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: XM Radio I like it because when I travel I get all the same stations, including C-Span, which I can only get in the local DC area on broadcast. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > John Flood > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 8:28 AM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: Re: XM Radio > > > > I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't > say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. > > steve7701@theriver.com wrote: > > >I received an e-mail from Lily, the program director at Watercolors > >(Channel 71) at XM Satellite Radio. She says they have obtained an > >advance copy of Matt's Mood - so maybe those of you with XM might want to > >drop them a line requesting they play the heck out of it. Write to > >watercolors@xmradio.com > > > >Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:57:49 -0700 From: A Fan Subject: Re: XM Radio I've largely given up on commercial radio. As an alternative to XM, check out Shoutcast.com or live365.com (either one with a Slim Devices Squeezebox but xmms/WinAmp will certainly suffice). Modem-friendly low-bitrate to high bandwidth CD quality, thousands of commercial-free channels, lots of genres from all over the world (want 80's music direct from Paris?), and it "works" outside of the US. Best of all: it's free. No contracts or bills. I looked at Sirius and XM but the equipment costs in order to bring their music with me and the bills just didn't justify it compared to the above, especially with multiple cars. Now they have combo car/home units and many new cars have one of the services built-in but the bills (and commercials with XM) remain. I'm skeptical about the variety too. From XM's Nov. 5th 2004 10-Q: "Clear Channel Communications provides certain programming services to us." ObBasia: smoothjazz.com (one of the Shoutcast channels) plays Cruising for a Bruising, Time and Tide, Baby You're Mine, New Day for You, Just Another Day, and Astrud. I consider Shoutcast and live365 as the modern-day equivalent of shortwave radio stations, if anybody remembers shortwave... On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:08:23PM -0500, Steve O'Hearn wrote: > > Very cool - XM is the way to go. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > > steve7701@theriver.com > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:45 PM > > To: basia@smoe.org > > Subject: XM Radio > > > > > > > > I received an e-mail from Lily, the program director at Watercolors > > (Channel 71) at XM Satellite Radio. She says they have obtained an > > advance copy of Matt's Mood - so maybe those of you with XM might want to > > drop them a line requesting they play the heck out of it. Write to > > watercolors@xmradio.com > > > > Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:00:12 -0600 From: Ben Combee Subject: Re: Ha! At 03:09 PM 2/4/2005, you wrote: > > I drive a SATURN, for > > heaven's sake! > >2000 SL2, 100,000K miles as of Tuesday. :D It's my >baby. Ah, I've got a 2000 LS2, which is about to hit 40,000 miles. Getting to 100,000,000 miles is really impressive :) ObBasia: I used Basia for the answers to a song meme on LiveJournal -- here's my answers: Describe yourself using one band (Basia) and song titles from that band... Are you male or female: Copernicus Describe yourself: An Olive Tree How do some people feel about you: How Dare You How do you feel about yourself: Freeze Thaw Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: Best Friends Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: Brave New Hope Describe where you want to be: Miles Away Describe what you want to be: Drunk on Love Describe how you live: Prime Time TV Describe how you love: Yearning Share a few words of wisdom: New Day For You - -- Ben Combee Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau Chief ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:54:02 -0600 From: "Barry" Subject: RE: XM Radio > I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't > say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. No advertising is nice, but that's hardly the reason to switch in my opinion. You can get the music you want anywhere, that's a big reason. You don't have to worry about the signal fading out in spots, you don't have to worry about finding music you like when you're driving through areas you don't know, or areas that don't have a lot of choices. If you stay within the range of a station (or stations) you like most of the time, and you always get a good signal, it may not be for you. I frequently travel outside the range of the local stations, not counting road trips for pleasure, and a couple of the areas I visit on a regular basis don't have any good stations. So XM is the way to keep getting the good music. Yeah, I could carry a CD collection in my car, but I still like the variety you get on the radio. My style fluctuates day to day. One day I'll be listening to Basia all day, the next day I'm listening to bluegrass music, the next day classical. I'd have to carry a lot to handle that variety. XM does it a lot easier. It's not for everyone, but it sure is for a lot of people. Barry "Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:30:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: Ha! - -> Ah, I've got a 2000 LS2, which is about to hit > 40,000 miles. Getting to > 100,000,000 miles is really impressive :) I just can't work them numbers. I meant to say, 100K. Doh! - --Leslie Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:54:34 -0500 From: John Flood Subject: Re: Ha! Don't know #3!!! Even a RI yankee like myself never can forget #3!!! #8 can't touch # 3! Amy ODonnell wrote: >We see them ALL DAY LONG, Sweetie. EVERYBODY from Texas INSISTS on having a larger vehicle than you. I've had the exact same near-misses. I'm wondering who will be the first in Houston to get one of those scaled down tractor-trailers from International. > >I don't know what those numbers on the back windows mean, however. > >Amy > >-- "Paxety Pages" wrote: > > >No, no - these are streeeeeeeeeettttttttttccccchhhhhhhhh Humvee limos in town for the Super Bowl. They must be at least 35-feet (11-meters) long. I'm sure you saw them in Houston last year. > >I'm regularly almost rammed by petite women driving common Humvees, F-150s, Dodge Rams and Toyota Land Cruisers (many with the number 3 or 8 on the rear window) while talking on their cell phones and trying to catch a glimpse of whatever DVD the kids are watching in the back seat. >un abrazo, >juan > > > > > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 2/4/2005 at 8:10 PM Amy ODonnell wrote: > > > >>You are SO bad. . .you sound like you are in Houston. If it's not a >>HumVee, it's a Ford 150 (or greater) or a Dodge Ram. I drive a SATURN, >>for heaven's sake! >> >>-- "Paxety Pages" wrote: >> >>Sitting at work listening to Radio Hey Now on the computer and praying that >>I'm not rammed while driving home by one of the hundreds of stretch Humvee >>limos on the streets this week - there's a promo for a jazz show - hey, >>wait, >>the music bed underneath sounds familiar - it's Freeze Thaw. Ha. >>un abrazo, >>juan >>http://paxety.com/Articles/blog >> >> > > >http://paxety.com/Articles/blog ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:09:08 EST From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: OT - Satellite Radio Hey everyone, let me weigh in on this topic. Satellite radio is the wave of the not too distant future. Who can imagine "paying" for radio? The same was said for cable TV, and that is now a staple of modern living. What can you really see on "free" TV? Well, you can miss a lot, especially when it comes to sports and your favorite team. Very soon all the major events will be off free radio. You will have to have satellite radio to listen to The Super Bowl, for example. I'm a biased early investor in Sirius. In a few years I expect to pay off my house, about 15-20 years early. Don't laugh, folks. Certainly there is risk involved in this stock, or any new concept, but I really think it will pay off as satellite radio becomes the standard, and free radio goes down the tube. And with Clear Channel basically owning the radio market in this country, that's probably a good thing. Here's another reason why I believe this will be successful. There are a lot of major players hitching their ride to satellite radio. The smart money includes GM, Ford, Chrysler and almost every other car manufacturer. They are all installing these radios as standard equipment in their cars. The smart money also includes Major League Baseball, The NBA, and the big one of them all, the NFL. The NFL is a cash machine. None of these players would invest tons of money and prestige into satellite radio if they weren't pretty sure it would be successful. Finally, I'm sure everyone knows Howard Stern will be joining Sirius at the start of 2006. I don't like Howard at all, but he is wildly popular, and should be the biggest reason people migrate to Sirius. Even conservative estimates of his listeners joining Sirius will make this company grow like crazy next year. Four years ago, when I was working as a retail store manager, we had a Muzak system set up on the roof. We had four choices. There were two adult contemporary stations, with real variety! You just can't get that on free radio. And yes, there still is a thrill hearing your favorite song or an obscure oldie playing on the radio. Satellite radio will give you all those choices. OK, I'm done, and I'll get off my soapbox for the evening. Oh, by the way, did I tell you that you can hear Larry Carlton, the world's greatest guitar player, on satellite radio? The Greedy Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:14:17 EST From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: Westbury Show Back to our favorite topic - who is going to the Matt Bianco show in Westbury on March 6th? Did we ever get a definitive list? I'm about 97% certain that I'm going, I just have to request the day off from work on Monday to drive home. It's not a bad drive from Buffalo, maybe 8 hours. It would be a scream to meet people on this list, people with whom I've chatted for the past 7 years. Joining this list was the first thing I did once I bought my computer - a PC, not a Mac! - and discovered the Internet. Good thing Al Gore invented it :) Who's going? Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:35:32 -0500 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: Westbury Show I'd like to carpool with you Jim, but I can't afford it. I'm losing my job on March 7th. A victim of the Adelphia debacle. Tell Basia I said hi. Dennis - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Westbury Show > > Back to our favorite topic - who is going to the Matt Bianco show in > Westbury on March 6th? Did we ever get a definitive list? I'm about 97% certain that > I'm going, I just have to request the day off from work on Monday to drive > home. It's not a bad drive from Buffalo, maybe 8 hours. It would be a scream to > meet people on this list, people with whom I've chatted for the past 7 > years. Joining this list was the first thing I did once I bought my computer - a > PC, not a Mac! - and discovered the Internet. > > Good thing Al Gore invented it :) > > Who's going? > > Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:05:51 -0500 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: Why satellite radio? You hit on all the same reasons that I took the plunge two years ago, Steve. For me the biggest reason was choice. It's head and shoulders above local radio in the Buffalo market - where we have several "classic rock" stations playing the same short playlist, not to mention several country stations, a couple of dance stations, umpteen religious translators, etc, etc, etc. Full time jazz station in Buffalo? No. If you're lucky you can get one from Toronto. Can you hear Basia on any station around here? Absolutely not. New Age? Forget it. Great American Pop Standards? Maybe in the larger markets, but not around here. And if you're lucky to find something you like, you will be upset by the repetition. Yeah, I have a bunch of CD's I used to listen to, but that got old quickly. I have a choice now of over 60 music channels and 40-some news and entertainment channels. I am happy to pay for this service. Why would someone pay for cable or satellite TV when they can get over-the-air stations for free? I think probably for the same reason: variety and choice. And it's a lot more money per month for cable - and it's certainly not portable. The deal maker for me when I chose a service was the lack of commercials on Sirius. XM at the time had some, although I don't think it was ever THAT much. Certainly not the 9 or 12 minute commercial blocks you hear on broadcast radio. That's one thing I'll never miss. Both services are now commercial-free on their music streams. Regarding the merger, I don't think it will occur. At least I hope not. Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin said there was no truth to the rumors. But you have to believe that most rumors are based on something, and not just made up. I didn't understand the comment about cable being commercial-free. I've been a cable subscriber since the mid-70's and have never seen evidence of this. Dennis - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 2:57 PM Subject: Why satellite radio? > > I can only speak for myself - I live in a small town with 2 mediocre > commercial FM stations and 1 Public Radio station. When the NPR station > went from mostly jazz to all talk format, I took the plunge for satellite > radio. I think it's well worth the monthly charge to be able to get in > the car for my short commute to work and know I am going to hear MUSIC, > not commercials. If I lived in LA, NYC, Chicago, I imagine the choice of > free stations is wonderful, and I wouldn't need XM. But not here. > > As for the no commercials...XM actually went from having commercials on > many of its music channels to being all commercial-free. I'm sure this > was in response to Sirius doing the same thing. There is talk now of XM > and Sirius merging in the future...without the competition, I suppose the > commercials could come back. I'll face that if and when it happens. > > Steve R. > > > Wondered about that myself. . . > > Amy > > -- John Flood wrote: > > > I just don't understand why people will PAY monthly for radio. And don't > say "no advertising"... that is the way cable started and look at it now. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:09:34 EST From: Samurai27@aol.com Subject: Re: Westbury Show Well I will be there. I live in Long Island which is about 14 miles in from the show so I am lucky. Denis with one "N" ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #20 ***************************