You know what is weird - AM Radio was dying and heading towards dinosaur status until Rush breathed life into AM radio. The TV network news and newspapers are dying. Sat radio was supposed to kill reg radio - Rush stuck with AM and he is thriving.
The fools in the media could learn something but they won’t. Rush is raking it in, in a medium that should be dead. If the newspapers were not so insanely liberal - they might have a shot at survival.
Poor marketing. It has been presented as merely a car radio. They screwed up by not pushing the home market. And I speak as a four year subscriber.
Radio is in a very interesting state right now. Companies on the verge of collapse. There will be changes, and AM may still die. Not because of their failure, but because the successful AM programming of News/Talk/Sports will all shift into FM to take the place of music stations that are no longer viable as young people stop listening to the radio for music.