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If I wanted yakking I would of stuck with T-Radio

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oasisrulz

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It seems these Siriius/XM channels are talking more and playing less music...for instance the 60's channel is constant talk, same with Hair Nation, First Wave etc.,....I have Sirius in my car and XM at home, when these two companies were separate it seemed there was less chatter but now they are a monopoly its changed...If I wanted to hear talk with my music I would stick with FM and AM....I for one do not want to hear any jock saying anything between the music.... the song and title comes up on the read-out so who needs these horrible jocks....let the music play and leave the talking to the talk channels on the system....at least Music Choice has no annoying jocks...
 
That's not the purpose of what SiriusXM is about. it was part interacting with the audience thru satellite, or they would've been an auto version of music choice or DMX in the first place.
 
A good DJ is fine. If they are accurate with the info they give about the song or artist, and they are professional/respectable, then it's cool. Heck, I even learn something once in a while ( and I think I know EVERYTHING! :p). So, what I'm really saying is that a good DJ adds value. A bad one will make you change the channel. The limited playlists bug me more than the consolidation of DJs (though, I'll admit that as a whole, I preferred the XM bunch over the Sirius bunch).
 
>>(though, I'll admit that as a whole, I preferred the XM bunch over the Sirius bunch).>>

The decade channels were far superior before sirius took over.
 
radioman148 said:
>>(though, I'll admit that as a whole, I preferred the XM bunch over the Sirius bunch).>>

The decade channels were far superior before sirius took over.
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Move the channels back!!!!!!!!!!
Sirius and xm should go back to separate entities.
People bought xm for xm and sirius for sirius.
They pissed EVERYONE off with the merger,now nobodys happy.XMers and Sirius alike.
I have a lifetime and am ready to sell that with the radio.
 
"If I wanted yakking I would of stuck with T-Radio"

My sentiments exactly. Every morning my clock radio comes on and invariably the T-radio "talent" team is incessantly babbling on about some mindless drivel. Fortunately, that is good motivation to get up and turn it off. My primary motivation for going to the hassle and expense of buying receivers and subscribing to XM was to get away from the endless commercials and prattle. Right now I'm listening to "the Pulse" and someone is taking up valuable airtime rattling on about how "tight" he is with some artist. At least it was brief. I have previously decided against buying a portable XM receiver or subscribing to the internet or iPhone feed. Now that I am in the market for a new car, I have decided that I will forego an integrated XM receiver in favor of the ability to play my iPhone through the car speakers simply because I don't know if in the long term, XM will become terrestrial radio that not only requires a special receiver and subscription fee, but also has commercials and nonsense.
 
Walking On said:
A good DJ is fine. If they are accurate with the info they give about the song or artist, and they are professional/respectable, then it's cool. Heck, I even learn something once in a while ( and I think I know EVERYTHING! :p). So, what I'm really saying is that a good DJ adds value. A bad one will make you change the channel. The limited playlists bug me more than the consolidation of DJs (though, I'll admit that as a whole, I preferred the XM bunch over the Sirius bunch).
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The XM bunch had personality, and sounded truly excited about satellite radio. Sirius largely uses bland but smooth New York FM professionals (Nashville FM pros on its country channels) on a moonlighting basis for its voicetracked DJ duties, and they sound like what they are: big empty voices with nothing to say, phoning in a daily satellite shift strictly to supplement their FM paychecks. Do they connect with their Sirius XM listeners? No, but they "hit the post" on music consistently, read from the one-liner book smoothly, and work cheap.
 
CTListener said:
Walking On said:
A good DJ is fine. If they are accurate with the info they give about the song or artist, and they are professional/respectable, then it's cool. Heck, I even learn something once in a while ( and I think I know EVERYTHING! :p). So, what I'm really saying is that a good DJ adds value. A bad one will make you change the channel. The limited playlists bug me more than the consolidation of DJs (though, I'll admit that as a whole, I preferred the XM bunch over the Sirius bunch).
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The XM bunch had personality, and sounded truly excited about satellite radio. Sirius largely uses bland but smooth New York FM professionals (Nashville FM pros on its country channels) on a moonlighting basis for its voicetracked DJ duties, and they sound like what they are: big empty voices with nothing to say, phoning in a daily satellite shift strictly to supplement their FM paychecks. Do they connect with their Sirius XM listeners? No, but they "hit the post" on music consistently, read from the one-liner book smoothly, and work cheap.
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You said it well. The XM guys were mostly live. The Sirius guys are voicetracked.
 
radioman148 said:
You said it well. The XM guys were mostly live. The Sirius guys are voicetracked.
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I don't even care about that, a VT'd jock is better than a live jock sometimes. If you know your stuff, don't ramble on non-stop and don't step all over the music, I don't care if you're live or tracked.
 
Mainedude2007 said:
radioman148 said:
You said it well. The XM guys were mostly live. The Sirius guys are voicetracked.
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I don't even care about that, a VT'd jock is better than a live jock sometimes. If you know your stuff, don't ramble on non-stop and don't step all over the music, I don't care if you're live or tracked.
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It seems to me in most cases (not all) that a good live jock has better chemistry with the audience. JMO.
 
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