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...Dylan will select the music, offer commentary, interview guests and answer e-mail from listeners during the one-hour program, which will start in March, XM said yesterday.......Dylan was attracted by the promise of a national audience, a commercial-free program and "total creative freedom" to air whatever he likes. Dylan also will broadcast from wherever he wants.
Dylan could have had all that plus a worldwide audience of potentially unlimited size had he started podcasting on the Web, of course.
But Dylan's never much been one to give it away, and there'll be more exposure if XM gives him the sort of rollout in TV ads that Siriues is giving Howard Stern. It does sort of follow the thread of his Victoria's Secret ads.
I don't do pay radio. No matter who's picking the music, it's still somebody else's playlist. You'll like one song, but not the next two.
Like most of us, as a kid Dylan used to listen to out-of-town stations late at night on a transistor radio. Kids won't be able to listen to him that way, though.
I expect the Dylan shows will show up on the torrents anyway, a day later.
The Times frames it as Star Wars on Satellite Radio.
