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So I get the impression that I won't gain much with satellite radio except a new monthly bill?
Hi Dave!
Years ago, I would have been standing on top of a soap box yelling
about the virtues of satellite radio to everyone that would listen.
Today, I would not steer anyone towards a $12 subscription that
offered nothing beyond what you could hear on FM radio.
Satellite radio has drastically changed over the past few years.
Instead of being something unique and innovating out of the minds
of creative individuals (which it once was), it is being run by the
same music consultants that have ruined FM radio.
So, if music is your motivation to go satellite, then you are much
better sticking with FM radio.
On the other hand, there is a wealth of talk and sports that may
be appealing to you, so if that is where your interest lies, perhaps
it would be worth your consideration.
It is still on XM. They moved it to 76. It is now adjacent to the classical channels.Jeff-Wooten said:My biggest irk with SiriusXM now: I almost went with XM back in the day, because they had a Cinemagic channel (movie soundtracks and songs) that wasn’t available on Sirius. I was very excited when the merger happened and found that Cinemagic would be located on Channel 81 (Sirius). Well I had to put up with two months of holiday music on Channel 81 (with news that Cinemagic would finally return on January 1). Well it did return on January 1, and I enjoyed it a lot for the three days that it aired. By the end of the week, Sirius had pulled it and ran constantly looping ads announcing the Disco channel would be coming to Channel 81 in two weeks. It seems Cinemagic had disappeared from the Sirius line-up. Is it still on XM? If so, why would they yank it from Sirius?
Sorry for the long post!
"Channels" plural? Aside from the opera/vocal channel, isn't there just the one classical channel? XM had two: the main classical channel that played full length pieces (with far too much baroque) and the "snippets" channel that played shorter single movements and a lot of "pop" fluff. I think the "snippets" channel has been removed from XM, leaving only the main, excessively baroque, channel.DavidJ said:classical channels