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- Jul 3, 1997
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- Ronald Epstein
You know, from day one I was a supporter of
XM Radio. I bought into the service early,
purchasing both an Alpine hardwired head unit
for the car and a Delphi SkyFi unit for my home.
For months I have been raving about XM radio
on this forum as well as other forums. I bought
XM Radio T-shirts and windows stickers. I even
sneered at those that even dared to mention the
competitor, Sirius radio.
Well, tomorrow I get rid of XM Radio and change
over to Sirius Radio.
I put a lot of thought into the decision. The
bottom line is, I don't want to listen to commercials
on satellite radio. Period. End of story.
When I first bought XM, the amount of commercial
play was negligable. I could handle it. But over
the past few months I noticed XM increasing the
amount of commercial play per hour. The latest
stats I heard is that XM plays 6 minutes of
commercials per hour. Honestly, it seems a lot
more than that.
I just couldn't take it anymore. Every 20 minutes
my music was being interrupted by commercials. What
made it worse was the fact that they played the same
commercials over and over and over again. You
either heard commercials filled with frantic
Onstar callers or Allstate trying to
pitch you its Safe Driver deal.
Another thing -- I listen to the 70s channel. It's
a great channel, but I'm sort of getting tired of
the station playing the same soundbytes from the
movie Oh God, Young Frankenstein and
M*A*S*H over and over and over again. I
also seem to be hearing the same songs time and
time again. My cable music channels offered more
70s rare tracks than XM does.
But let's get back to the commercials...
I wrote letters to XM Radio urging them to get
rid of their commercials even if it means raising
their prices. I couldn't convince any of my friends
to go with XM Radio after they found out that
Sirius Radio offers no commercials. You can
see how fast Sirius is growing just because
they advertise themselves as a commercial-free
service.
I want to listen to music. Not commercial any
interruptions.
Yeah, XM Radio saves you $3 a month over Sirius
Radio. But if having to pay $3 more per
month meants not having to listen to the increased
amount of commercial airplay, then I consider that
money well spent.
So what did I do?
I decided to get rid of my Alpine head unit and
bought the Kenwood X869 receiver. The Sirius
tuner is FREE with the purchase. I paid a minimal
amount of money for the antenna and install.
I'm selling my Alpine head unit, XM car tuner and
antenna, plus my Delphi SkyFi receiver and two home
kit cradles for about $300-$350 to anyone that
wants it. I'll post something in the FOR SALE area
shortly.
I hope that I'll be happier with Sirius than
I was with XM Radio.
XM Radio. I bought into the service early,
purchasing both an Alpine hardwired head unit
for the car and a Delphi SkyFi unit for my home.
For months I have been raving about XM radio
on this forum as well as other forums. I bought
XM Radio T-shirts and windows stickers. I even
sneered at those that even dared to mention the
competitor, Sirius radio.
Well, tomorrow I get rid of XM Radio and change
over to Sirius Radio.
I put a lot of thought into the decision. The
bottom line is, I don't want to listen to commercials
on satellite radio. Period. End of story.
When I first bought XM, the amount of commercial
play was negligable. I could handle it. But over
the past few months I noticed XM increasing the
amount of commercial play per hour. The latest
stats I heard is that XM plays 6 minutes of
commercials per hour. Honestly, it seems a lot
more than that.
I just couldn't take it anymore. Every 20 minutes
my music was being interrupted by commercials. What
made it worse was the fact that they played the same
commercials over and over and over again. You
either heard commercials filled with frantic
Onstar callers or Allstate trying to
pitch you its Safe Driver deal.
Another thing -- I listen to the 70s channel. It's
a great channel, but I'm sort of getting tired of
the station playing the same soundbytes from the
movie Oh God, Young Frankenstein and
M*A*S*H over and over and over again. I
also seem to be hearing the same songs time and
time again. My cable music channels offered more
70s rare tracks than XM does.
But let's get back to the commercials...
I wrote letters to XM Radio urging them to get
rid of their commercials even if it means raising
their prices. I couldn't convince any of my friends
to go with XM Radio after they found out that
Sirius Radio offers no commercials. You can
see how fast Sirius is growing just because
they advertise themselves as a commercial-free
service.
I want to listen to music. Not commercial any
interruptions.
Yeah, XM Radio saves you $3 a month over Sirius
Radio. But if having to pay $3 more per
month meants not having to listen to the increased
amount of commercial airplay, then I consider that
money well spent.
So what did I do?
I decided to get rid of my Alpine head unit and
bought the Kenwood X869 receiver. The Sirius
tuner is FREE with the purchase. I paid a minimal
amount of money for the antenna and install.
I'm selling my Alpine head unit, XM car tuner and
antenna, plus my Delphi SkyFi receiver and two home
kit cradles for about $300-$350 to anyone that
wants it. I'll post something in the FOR SALE area
shortly.
I hope that I'll be happier with Sirius than
I was with XM Radio.