{"id":915,"date":"2009-02-11T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/2009-2-11-here-in-my-car-sirius-xm-ponder-bankruptcy-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:15","slug":"2009-2-11-here-in-my-car-sirius-xm-ponder-bankruptcy-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/2009-2-11-here-in-my-car-sirius-xm-ponder-bankruptcy-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Here In My Car &#8211; Sirius XM Ponder Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/hosted\/life\/l?imgurl=57c2c0c4244e5c8b&#038;q=satellite%20source:life&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dsatellite%2Bsource:life%26start%3D72%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26sa%3DN\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/hosted\/images\/c?q=57c2c0c4244e5c8b_landing\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Colonel Harold Brown (C) w. Dr. Hans Ziegler (L), John Licht (2R) and Dr. Harold Zahl (R) with US weather satellite ready for launching. Location:\tFt Monmouth, NJ, US Date taken: February 1959 Photographer: Andreas Feininger\" \/><\/a>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the &#8220;best radio on radio&#8221; is going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/11\/technology\/companies\/11radio.html?_r=1&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\">down the Chapter 11 route<\/a>. I read about this yesterday and cancelled my subscription before it was cancelled for me by a bankruptcy judge. Sure, everything might end up well, but I thought it&#8217;d be neat to hold on to my cash. Ever since the merger, I&#8217;ve increasingly disliked the service. XM subscribers have screamed and yelled about the cuts in their favorite programming. I was a fan of the old Sirius straight-ahead blues station that went away in favor of a BB King-branded channel. The new jazz station stinks more often than not. Their &#8220;college&#8221; station has become more commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, satellite. Hello, podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s what&#8217;s killed them, hasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: In other satellite news, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123438921888374497.html\" target=\"_blank\">SATELLITE CRASH!!!1one!1!1!!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, It looks like the &#8220;best radio on radio&#8221; is going down the Chapter 11 route. I read about this yesterday and cancelled my subscription before it was cancelled for me by a bankruptcy judge. Sure, everything might end up well, but I thought it&#8217;d be neat to hold on to my cash. Ever since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/2009-2-11-here-in-my-car-sirius-xm-ponder-bankruptcy-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here In My Car &#8211; Sirius XM Ponder Bankruptcy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,19],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}