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Article: Birth of a station: a new type of radio technology--satellite radio--offers listeners a fresh alternative to the obnoxious talk jocks and boring playlists of AM and FM radio. (Physical).
- Article from:
- Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- November 22, 2002
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Here's something unusual. You hop in your friend's new family car and flip on the radio. On come Nelly and Ashanti and Eve. Then come Alicia Keys and Beck and the Dixie Chicks. And then Ja Rule and Ludacris and India. Arie.
So what's so unusual about that? Nothing, except the radio isn't playing the same old Top 40 singles--the ones seen on video on MTV. It's playing songs from those and countless other artists that you never hear on the radio. And the songs come one after another, with no commercials.
You're listening to Sirius, one of only two services in the United States that offer satellite radio--radio transmitted from satellites orbiting Earth. ...