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May 22, 2007 | 10:10 AM

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FivePointo

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I got XM back when there were less than 100,000 listeners, to listen to Talk radio. I still like it, in fact we have 5 now. Not sure Sirius still does it but when they first started they had an optional 1 time lifetime fee. XM didn't still doesn't. My only gripe about XM, too many commercials on some channels, and they are always the same ones.

May 22, 2007 | 10:35 AM

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bigdaddyII

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My only gripe about XM, too many commercials on some channels

I noticed that too. I thought the fact that you were paying for it would eliminate them. Most of them were to promote a later show, or a diffirent channel but a lot of them were advertisments too. I would have kept XM had they not made up their own calander, loved Opie and Anthony, H. Stern is mainly what kept me away from Sirius after I ditched XM.

May 22, 2007 | 12:46 PM

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Don't know why Stern would keep anyone away from Sirius or why Opie and Anthony would keep anyone away from XM. Just don't tune to their channels.

I am a Sirius subscriber, have been for a year, and I choose not to listen to Stern by not having his channel programmed into my receiver. Anyone can do that.

I have XM radio, more or less, through DirectTV and very seldom ever listen to the music channels. I guess it doesn't matter which you prefer if the merger is approved by the FCC but there is no way I would ever listen to commercial radio again.

May 22, 2007 | 01:34 PM

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[QUOTE=ddrumman2004]Don't know why Stern would keep anyone away from Sirius or why Opie and Anthony would keep anyone away from XM. Just don't tune to their channels.

thats not the gripe as to why they were cancelling subscriptions, it was due people paying for uncensored airwaves and not getting that.

May 22, 2007 | 01:43 PM

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Don't know why Stern would keep anyone away from Sirius or why Opie and Anthony would keep anyone away from XM. Just don't tune to their channels.

thats not the gripe as to why they were cancelling subscriptions, it was due people paying for uncensored airwaves and not getting that.

My response was to bigdaddy where he states that Stern was the reason he didn't go to Sirius. Just don't tune to the channel, it's that simple.

May 22, 2007 | 02:13 PM

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My response was to bigdaddy where he states that Stern was the reason he didn't go to Sirius. Just don't tune to the channel, it's that simple.

Sorry, should have clarified a little better. Stern is NOT totally what kept me away. He was just a consideration, other considerations included not wanting to buy new setups for both cars and the house, not wanting to rip both cars apart again to have clean installs and I was weary of going through the same billing fiasco that I did with XM. Sterns stupidity was an afterthought.