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Listen up. Up in the sky — It's satellite radio. |
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Written by asap
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006 |
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 Terrestrial radio, as it's now known, is terrible.
Even if you like pop music and can stand hearing the same 100 or so songs over and over again, you can't help but hate the ad jingles and ads disguised as banter and ads disguised as traffic reports and ads disguised as between-song filler.
Which is why you should tune into satellite radio. Don't think of it as paying for something you already get for free, because it isn't. It is blissfully free of commercials (on nearly all channels) and your favorite DJs can stick with you no matter how far you travel.
There are two ways to gift satellite radio: Buy a cheap tuner for as little as $25 and pay for somebody's monthly subscription — for a year, say — or buy a nice tuner and make the recipient pony up the regular fees, which range from $10 to $13 a month. (Miss Manners says: Make sure to ask before doing the latter.)
The biggest of two satellite radio providers is XM; they've invested heavily in intriguing personalities and mixes in order to stay that way. Need a Starbucks fix? Tune into its channel Hear Music. Exotic mixes are just a flick of the dial away.
There's old-school hip-hop, channels in all-French or all-Spanish. Even cooler: Bob Dylan shares his personal music collection with a weekly show on Deep Tracks, and Snoop Dogg plays exclusive cuts from his back catalogue, alongside soul songs that inspired him, in a weekly show on The Rhyme.
To make the most of your gift, make sure you choose one of the portable tuners — Pioneer inno, Samsung nexus or Delphi SkyFi. Then you can "borrow" it and share in the joy of next-gen radio.
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Ryan Pearson is an asap staff reporter.
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