Best explanation I ever heard:
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Satellite radio was a great concept that was poorly implemented by 2 separate teams of morons that joined to form one giant piece of crap.
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I had Sirius back in 2005, and it was excellent, and started going downhill pretty much immediately. DJs talked more and more, the typical inane crap that was so annoying on FM radio. I primarily listened to Octane and Alt Nation, and while the playlists were not super extensive, it would take a while before you heard the same song again.
The one exception to that was the 80's station, it was outstanding at the time. The playlist was ridiculously deep. My wife and I listened to it on a road trip to Vegas and back, and I don't think we heard any songs twice. It had some of the original MTV VJs, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman, and Martha Quinn. This is kind of cool if you are my age and remember when the "M" in MTV stood for "Music" and not "Morons".
Once the XM merger happened, it got measurably worse, and more expensive. Some of the good channels went away, and the DJs talked even more than they did before (I am guessing more talk = 1 less song per hour per channel = less royalties paid), and the playlists got smaller, to the point I would hear the same songs a few times a day.
I finally gave up in 2011, and bought one of these:
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I do have unlimited data on my phone, and I have been contemplating getting a Pandora account, but haven't got around to it yet.
It may have improved in the past 4 years, but I doubt it. I am sure it is still a better alternative to FM radio, but that bar isn't particularly high.