Article: Detroit Free Press Tom Walsh column.

Byline: Tom Walsh

Apr. 5--SATELLITE RADIO SHOWS ON NOTICE: Ed Christian knows he can't stop XM and Sirius from beaming satellite radio signals into the 25 markets where Christian's company, Saga Communications Inc. of Grosse Pointe Farms operates 55 AM and 27 FM land-based radio stations.

But by golly, he's determined not to share programs with the satellite interlopers when Saga has contracted for exclusive local broadcast rights to those programs.

Two weeks ago, Christian, the chairman, president and CEO of publicly owned Saga, opened a new front in an expanding national battle between land-based, or terrestrial, radio stations and satellite ...

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