The inexorable march of Pandora and other streaming services to auto dashboards has some pundits speculating that we've seen the end of “The DJ.” ReadWriteWeb, for instance, reacted to Pioneer’s new Pandora-enabled dashboard radio as more than just the death of Satellite radio, but the end of professionally curated music, period. That online streaming radio will stick a fork in satellite-delivered radio is beyond debate. The survival of Sirius XM (especially post-Howard) is almost entirely dependent on their untethering themselves from those pricey birds in the sky, and getting their cost of doing business down to the level of their competition—which ranges from Pandora to Spotify and on down to some guy with a server in his garage.

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