

Satellite radio was conceived as the answer to all the things that were irritating about terrestrial broadcast radio.Ĭomplaint No. Even if you’ve never cruised a boulevard with the top down and the radio blaring, you’ve probably heard about how great it is in a Beach Boys song (which you probably heard on the radio while driving in your car).Įven so, right from the beginning, listening to the radio in a car had its frustrations. Listening to the radio and driving are as inextricably linked as peanut butter and jelly. A receiver mounted in a BMW X5 was tuned to Sirius’s classic rock channel. Music From Space: In February 2002, as the Sirius Satellite Radio music service went on line, the company held a demonstration in Denver.
