I have XM radio now it's due to expire in a couple of weeks. Does anyone have Sirius? My nephew has it & says that they do not have any commercials at all.I find this kind of hard to believe. Xm's commercials they have on some of the talk shows are really starting to bug me.I don't get the commercials on music stations but on the talk stations I'm getting fed up with them. I want to get some feedback before I decide to switch or stay. Mike
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I have Sirius and there are commercials on most of the talk channels except the music stations. I would switch to Siruis for three reasons Howard Stern (not everyone will like), Bubba the Love Sponge (Scelzi is on frequently), and the Nascar channel. I would think the music stations (Octane 20 is my fav) are pretty comparable. It will probably not matter in a few months if the merger goes through. Here's a discussion from a year ago.
http://www.nitromater.com/lounge/4276-satellite-radio.html
http://www.nitromater.com/lounge/4276-satellite-radio.html
"Dr. Dirt"
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XM, hands down for me for mostly the same reason as Paul has stated.
Nemo
Nitro Member
Another vote for Sirius. With them for 3 years, no commercials on the music channels, every NFL football game (you can even pick the "home" or "away" radio cast in most cases) and Bubba the Love Sponge. It made it impossible to listen to the crappy local DJ's and their crappy dated music. I have heard that XM and Sirius are trying to merge, and if so they would combine programing, that would be nice since my Chevy truck has a unused XM sterio with a Sirius player mounted below it.
Rick Rzepka
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i have sirius . i hate it. the only non commercial stuff is the music channels. after about a month i could almost predict what song was going to be played next, its same tunes over and over. all the other channels have commercials lots of them. the nascar channel is terrible. they should have a racing channel that talks all racing. my subscription runs out feb 0f 08 and im done.
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Well hell,that's reason enough to stick with XM right there.
I do like XM, I thought my nephew was nuts when he said there was no commercials at all on Sirius.
DCM
Nitro Member
I got Sirius with my truck free for a year.
I thought I would just let it expire.
But, with work I drive quite a bit and because of that, I love it. With the array of channels, you can always find something to listen to: music, news, comedy, etc......
Music channels - no commercials
Talk channels - some commercials, but not as much as normal FM.
With Sirius you get NBA, NFL [all games], Nascar [with in-car audio of 10 drivers each week], Stern, etc.
If you spend any significant amount of time in your car listening to the radio, it is worth it.
I thought I would just let it expire.
But, with work I drive quite a bit and because of that, I love it. With the array of channels, you can always find something to listen to: music, news, comedy, etc......
Music channels - no commercials
Talk channels - some commercials, but not as much as normal FM.
With Sirius you get NBA, NFL [all games], Nascar [with in-car audio of 10 drivers each week], Stern, etc.
If you spend any significant amount of time in your car listening to the radio, it is worth it.
Bullard Anderson
Nitro Member
Channel 4 Movin EZ for me on Sirius.
Used to really like Prime Country when they played more 80's.
Enjoy the Redskins home broadcast when I'm on the road coming back from Charlottesville on Sunday's.
Used to really like Prime Country when they played more 80's.
Enjoy the Redskins home broadcast when I'm on the road coming back from Charlottesville on Sunday's.
Larry
Nitro Member
Oh come on Alan you can toot your horn amonst friends!
Alan left out that he is a featured regular guest on the show every week.
I might add he always has a lot more insight on there than over here.
Maybe Jerrod could slip you a few bills to liven up the place Alan!
Best we ever got was he got rich by darning his own socks!
Alan the show gets better and better and I'm looking forward to 2008 and I will certainly renew my subscription.
Looking at the stocks sirius @ less than three dollars a share vs less than 15 for XM.
I hope they do keep all originanal programing if they merge.
XM has a lot of special in house programing and the music is about the same. We have both Sirius and XM .
