In what he described as "the biggest cultural shift" of the changes, Mr. Prendergast announced the formation of a division devoted to maintaining station appearances.
"We want to fix these stations," said Mr. Burger, who said additional resources and staff training will be devoted to troubled stations.
Begins at 6 p.m At 10 a.m. on Good Friday, participants will begin a procession devoted to the Stations of the Cross, with stops in Chelsea and Clinton.
The purchase was an unusual move at this stage of a presidential nominating season, when most campaign advertising resources are devoted to broadcast stations in the early voting states, like Iowa and New Hampshire, not to national networks.
On the one hand, the proliferation of media targeted at ever-more-narrow niches — Sirius has not only an indie station, but a more mainstream alternative-rock station, a station devoted to alt-rock from the 1990s, a station dedicated to New Wave music, and so on — would seem to lend itself to sharper distinctions and less crossover.
The rest of the morning was devoted to visiting more stations.
Nowhere is this better seen than in the room at Tate Modern devoted to his 14 Stations of the Cross, a series of black-and-white paintings, all the same size, painted between 1958 and 1966.
Of the two services, Sirius has a more expansive range, including a station devoted to garage rock of the vintage (not recently revived) sort, as well as a smartly programmed contemporary indie rock station, Sirius 26: Left of Center, which spotlights college-radio acts like Hope of the States and Le Tigre.
He pleaded for a joint U.S.-Mexico research station devoted to the improvement of corn, which was established in 1943 and eventually grew into a worldwide network of research stations under the International Center for Corn and Wheat Improvement, an organization that aims to improve food production in developing nations.
