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...Long ago, the registrar’s system wasn’t connected to the network, it was a dial back system—you would call them and it would verify your phone number,” Steen says. “We’ve tried to simulate that same kind of protection and so before you can see anything it tries to verify who is seeking...
...least the schadenfreude, begins later today with NBC's upfront at Radio City Music Hall. Don't touch that dial. There'll be plenty of time for that once the new shows actually premiere...
...character of those conventional radio signals responded to the weather and time of day in a way that satellite transmissions don't. Late at night, if the skies were clear enough to make out every star in the Big Dipper, the empty spaces on my AM dial would suddenly and mysteriously fill up with broadcasts from a thousand miles away. Minneapolis' WCCO, the powerful station that I grew up listening to and whose chuckling, easygoing announcers shaped my identity as a Minnesotan, reached out to me late one evening in eastern Washington as I sat parked on the shoulder...
...wouldn't have guessed it from listening to satellite radio. Outside, boiling up on both sides of Interstate 80, black prairie thunderheads sizzled with greenish lightning. Inside my car the only sound was that of an E! Entertainment biography of celebrity rock-widow Courtney Love. I reached for the dial and turned to CNN, then Fox, then NPR. But because all the news was national rather than local, not a single voice I came across could tell me that the town near the next exit--where I'd reserved a motel room for the night--was being shredded at that...
...This being satellite radio, whose subscribers pay a $12.95 monthly fee, the content cops have no say in what's beamed down from Sirius' three satellites. And Sirius is taking full advantage of its outlier status to serve up fare you would never hear over the AM/FM dial, from frat-boy channels like Maxim Radio to hip-hop so crude it might make Eminem blush...