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Five years ago I was the first person in Los Angeles to buy satellite radio.

XM was supposed to launch, but only in San Diego and Dallas, on Sept. 12, 2001.

Oh oh. 9/11/01 screwed that up. XM killed their commercials and delayed the rollout for a month or so. But they were still selling radios down in San Diego County.

So, on 9/16/01, I drove down to Oceanside to get an in-dash radio installed. I activated it, and the phone clerk told me she was the only CSR working, and that I was the fourth revenue customer.

I drove back to Zuma Beach sampling everything. I heard some female DJ on Eighties on 8 flub a line, stop the song, laugh, tell someone offmike "the only person out there listening is some hairy trucker in Montana - hello, Mister Hairy Trucker!" and then redo the stopset.

Good bye, 18 minute spot loads. Au revior, dumbeddown all news. Good riddance, AM and FM, may you rest in peace.

Despite the stock gossip and trash talking that is fanned by the NAB trolls, XM and Sirius are on track to 14 million accounts this year.

I'm sure glad I didn't join the stock speculators, losing their shirts. But as a consumer, I have a big spoon and have been eating it up.
 
zumahans said:
Five years ago I was the first person in Los Angeles to buy satellite radio.

XM was supposed to launch, but only in San Diego and Dallas, on Sept. 12, 2001.

Oh oh. 9/11/01 screwed that up. XM killed their commercials and delayed the rollout for a month or so. But they were still selling radios down in San Diego County.

So, on 9/16/01, I drove down to Oceanside to get an in-dash radio installed. I activated it, and the phone clerk told me she was the only CSR working, and that I was the fourth revenue customer.

I drove back to Zuma Beach sampling everything. I heard some female DJ on Eighties on 8 flub a line, stop the song, laugh, tell someone offmike "the only person out there listening is some hairy trucker in Montana - hello, Mister Hairy Trucker!" and then redo the stopset.

Good bye, 18 minute spot loads. Au revior, dumbeddown all news. Good riddance, AM and FM, may you rest in peace.

Despite the stock gossip and trash talking that is fanned by the NAB trolls, XM and Sirius are on track to 14 million accounts this year.

I'm sure glad I didn't join the stock speculators, losing their shirts. But as a consumer, I have a big spoon and have been eating it up.
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Wow, how nice for you.

I've listened to XM, but I have a different point of view. Most of the popular music channels play the same tired songs as terrestrial radio, I'm not quite as impressed.

Yeah, some channels are good like Bluesville and even the cinema/soundtrack channel, but all in all it's just more of the same with less commercials, but not on every channel... Plus the sound is not what I'd call hi-fi... It’s, so so, and it isn’t local.
 
Sorry, Calguy, but this:

----->I've listened to XM,

does not compute to this:

-----> Most of the popular music channels play the same tired songs as terrestrial radio,.

The XM 60s station alone has a playlist of 6,800 songs. Deep Tracks along has 5,000 rock songs.
 
zumahans said:
Sorry, Calguy, but this:

----->I've listened to XM,

does not compute to this:

-----> Most of the popular music channels play the same tired songs as terrestrial radio,.

The XM 60s station alone has a playlist of 6,800 songs. Deep Tracks along has 5,000 rock songs.
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Yo Mike, I don't listen, at least not regularly. I don't subscribe. Zumahans, I've had several rental cars with XM and
Sirius for weeks at a time over the last 2 years and I was able to pick out the rotations by day 2. Like I said, it's MY OPINION.
You have your's, I have mine. I didn't say it was all bad. I love listening to Bobby Ocean on XM7, but I grew tired of some of
more undesirable tunes. 6,800 songs sounds great on the surface, but if more than a 3rd of them blow then I have to tune around.
I kept bouncing from XM7 to XM 46, then to 49 and so on. Sure, there were songs I liked that I hadn't heard in a while, but
after a few weeks I was more than ready to return to local radio. I thought that the rock channels on Sirius were far superior to XM'xs.
I worked at a Lee Abrams station in my career and I'm not impressed with his brand of rock. Plus, I kind of miss real "live" deejays.
It's obvious that many of the shows are tracked. Some better than others, why upchuck all the dollars for that? I have an iPod for
the songs I can't get on local radio and I don't have to listen to the songs I don't like. I suppose if I had the cash, I might think
about a subscription, but the price would have to drop quite a bit, besides, why support a medium that could eventually reduce my pay scale.
I actually work in radio, and I'm smart enough to know that even with all those channels, getting a job at XM or Siruis would be difficult.
Not enough jobs to go around. So for the moment I'll be content to stick with terrestrial radio, it pays better...
 
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