Wall Street Week/Fortune

Garrett Wollman wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Feb 13 19:03:11 EST 2005


<<On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:51:46 -0500, "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com> said:
 
> According to capitalist theory, at some point, someone in
> traditional radio should try a more open format, promote it heavily,
> do well with it, and then be widely copied.  So far, though, it
> hasn't happened.

Except that radio is an oligopoly marketplace, enforced by government
licensing of outlets, so there's no reason to expect that this will
happen.

Now, when GM starts hawking "OnStar+3" with mobile broadband
multimedia, watch out!

-GAWollman



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