Will you miss Sirius/XM?

jyl · jyl's Garage

It seems unlikely that Sirius/XM will survive as a company for much longer.

If you use Sirius/XM, will you miss it? What's so great about it?

BTW, don't really be alarmed. The service is likely to survive. The satellite TV companies want to buy it.

gassy · 02-13-2009, 07:40 PM

I'll miss Howard, Bubba, and Scotty. ( Yay! Another thread people can bash Howard in! Can't wait!)

SLO-BOB · 02-13-2009, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jyl

If you use Sirius/XM, will you miss it? What's so great about it?
.

I would miss it.

No commercials. You can choose genres. You hear music that mainstream radio does not play. You can listen to the same station, uninterrupted (unless you go into a tunnel or parking garage) for whatever your trip duration is. You can link XM to a Garmin and have near real time radar overlayed onto your route - especially great for motorcyclists (me) who may need to sit out a rain storm.

I really hope someone picks it up.

VincentVega · 02-13-2009, 07:53 PM

Quote:

I'll miss Howard

x2

That's the biggest thing for me. Although, a few of the music channels are damn good too.

Bryans951 · 02-13-2009, 07:59 PM

I would miss it too. I thought it was weird that they wanted me to lock in my renewal for some length so I could still listen online for free. No way I'm doing more than a month at a time now.

dafischer · 02-13-2009, 07:59 PM

I'll miss being able to listen to a great assortment of Classic Jazz while working on the cars Saturday & Sunday afternoons in the barn. That and a few beers makes the perfect accompaniment for some serious wrenching.

chapo · 02-13-2009, 09:04 PM

I have XFM and love it. Some days I want the Outlaw Country, some days Hard Rock, some days Blues, etc. Can listen to the NASCAR races as I am driving home from the vintage races. The Comedy channels can cheer you up on a bad day.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by SLO-BOB

...No commercials....

What stations are you listening to?
I love listening to it when I am in my dads pickup but the comercials just tick me off. Come its 12bucks a month ought to still be commercial free.

therotman · 02-13-2009, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porsche4life

What stations are you listening to?
I love listening to it when I am in my dads pickup but the comercials just tick me off. Come its 12bucks a month ought to still be commercial free.

Most of them are except for the talk radio.

You can't expect a person to talk for 4-6 straight hours without taking a leak or eating/drinking something.

I have sirius, but would not miss it much.

89911 · 03:40 AM

It will come back. I've been listening since it came out and really don't listen to broadcast radio because of the commercials. The poster that asked about the commercials on it doesn't understand that they have to find someway to pay Sterns wages because the new listeners enrolling just aren't there anymore. This will go down as one of his biggest failures no matter how he spins it. I didn't care as much when it just XM, but now that the bad debt is combined, it is sending the whole business down the toilet. Sirius has no one to blame but them selves. The same with XM for trying to "outbuy" the celebrity list that Stern started. I hope it comes back a much simpler, affordable product because there is still a market for it. (plus millions of cars and players that need it to function.)

Monza_dh · Monza_dh's Garage

never bought into it.

An Ipod and freee radio is all I need for an 45 min commute. If I did have it, it would be the first thing to go in tis economy.

BeerBurner · 02-14-2009, 04:00 AM

I never got them, either. I can bring myself to pay for TV but not radio. I don't mind the commericials because with six presets I rarely have to listen to them.

BB.

Halm · 02-14-2009, 04:21 AM

We travel a lot for business and we have friends several hundred miles away so we travel weekends too. Sirius has been great for us, especially in the fall on weekends so we don't miss any NFL games.

And a few years ago I bought a 911 SC in LA and drove it home to Charlotte. I stopped in Albuquerque, bought a second portable radio, added it to our account, and then rocked the next 3 days home. GREAT times!

layzee · layzee's Garage

Sat radio is basically unknown here in Europe - but I've always thought it was doomed. It just a matter of time til we have wireless everywhere in urban areas then your car will be permanently online - internet radio, podcasts etc... Who's going to subscribe to Sirius when you can get whatever you want for free?

TGTIW · 02-14-2009, 06:32 AM

XM's programming quality dropped severely with the merger, my membership is up in about a month and that will be it for me.

SLO-BOB · 02-14-2009, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porsche4life

What stations are you listening to?
I love listening to it when I am in my dads pickup but the comercials just tick me off. Come its 12bucks a month ought to still be commercial free.

I can tell you that I DON'T listen to talk radio - satellite or otherwise. The music stations I listen to - CBC, Alt Nation, Left of Center (go figure-huh?

), Lithium, classic jazz, only have the hosts talking a bit, but no commercials. The day they have commercials is the day I unsubscribe. I have a significant MP3 collection. I could plug it in, hit random, play it for a week. It would be better, and I would hear less repeats than any radio station. However, Sirius is great for hearing new music I do not have.

VINMAN · 02-14-2009, 06:57 AM

I would miss it big time! I cant stand to listen to broadcast radio anymore. 23 hrs of commercials interjected with an hour of music.

scottmandue · 02-14-2009, 06:58 AM

No, never bought it... they have these things called compact disks/ipod/mp3 players if you don't like comercials.

Just before satilite radio came out they were developing in dash stereos with built in hard drives... I predict they will make a come back.

onewhippedpuppy · 02-14-2009, 06:58 AM

I won't pay for something I can get for free. Now with my discovery of free internet radio over my cell-phone, which is also organized by genre, what's the point? I'll listen to a few ads to save $15/mo.

I do hope they can continue the XM weather service though, it's a HUGE benefit to the aviation community. It allows smaller aircraft that don't have dedicated onboard weather radar to get nearly real-time weather radar in the cockpit, which is a huge safety feature.

jyl · jyl's Garage

Maybe I should mount my iPhone in the car, jacked to the stereo, streaming an online radio station. Where there's decent 3g coverage, this would seem feasible.