Sirius Satellite Radio hits 5.1 Million Subscribers

[aphex]

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Man, when i first signed up 3-4 years ago, i think we only had like 400-500k.

Still chasing XM (7.2 million), but looks like in the 3rd quarter Sirius had 2x as many signups - http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/04/news/co...irius/index.htm?postversion=2006100411

 

[aircooled]

Sweet! I'm an XM subscriber, but I support Satellite radio in general.
After having Satellite radio for years, I can't stand OTA radio at all anymore.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: aphex
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Man, when i first signed up 3-4 years ago, i think we only had like 400-500k.

I read that they consider unsold cars in the lot that have sirius pre-installed with a trial sub are considered "subscribers" by sirius. Thats pretty gangsta.

Satellite radio is sweet, even though I'm an XM guy, I really like what sirius is doing with their online service, by jacking up the quality and making it stream to portables through wifi. The sat signals on both services suck ass. XM needs to get on that bandwagon quick.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Sweet! I'm an XM subscriber, but I support Satellite radio in general.
After having Satellite radio for years, I can't stand OTA radio at all anymore.

I agree, i tried listening to local radio for a few mins the other day, but I couldnt take the commercials.

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: aircooled
Sweet! I'm an XM subscriber, but I support Satellite radio in general.
After having Satellite radio for years, I can't stand OTA radio at all anymore.

I agree, i tried listening to local radio for a few mins the other day, but I couldnt take the commercials.

Plus the programming on OTA radio is just horrendous. And I prefer to hear a song unedited.

 

[aircooled]

People complain about "paying for radio" with satellite, but I compare it to paying for cable or satellite TV. I'd rather pay a few bucks, get better programming, unedited music, tons of talk. I think satellite radio is here to stay.

 

[doze]

Sat. radio is a good idea, but with several good regular radio stations and an MP3 compatible cd player I don't need it. I'm fine with the local rock or classic rock station, and a lot of their advertizing is about things I am actually interested in.

My friend has the free XM with his new car, it's ok but hard to find good stations that stay good song after song, and I've even heard some commercials too. I think they should add stations that are free but with advertizing to get more listeners.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: doze
Sat. radio is a good idea, but with several good regular radio stations and an MP3 compatible cd player I don't need it. I'm fine with the local rock or classic rock station, and a lot of their advertizing is about things I am actually interested in.

My friend has the free XM with his new car, it's ok but hard to find good stations that stay good song after song, and I've even heard some commercials too. I think they should add stations that are free but with advertizing to get more listeners.

Yea, i think XM has some commercials on a few of their music stations (dunno which or how many though), Sirius only has them on the talk/news stations, not their music stations.

 

[FoBoT]

i love my XM , i wouldn't go back to OTA

if dish or directTV had a combo package with either siruis or XM, that would get me to switch

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Well the commercials showed up when Clearchannel started buying interest in XM...

And now with the PERFORM Act in Congress, it'll pretty much halt or reduce subscribers on both XM and Sirius. Since they made the radios where you can record programs and take them to go, RIAA wants more royalties paid since people are listening to them "non-live" or something. Plus it'd bar new radios from being made which can record data, or only allow those which require pre-approved DRM measures to make sure people aren't backing them up.

Do a Google for XM Grassroots

 

[dr150]

<---------$500 lifetime subscription to Sirius.


I'm a recent subscriber. I was turned when I went on three 10+ hour road trips over 3 days. No FM/AM radio in the boonies where I was driving would have killed me as I would have driven off the road falling asleep. But having sat. radio and listening to Howard Stern, the comedy channels, NFL broadcasts, and rock channels kept me up and alert and entertained the WHOLE WAY! That's priceless. It made the trip go by MUCH FASTER!

The only problem I have with sat. radio, or at least with my Sirius unit is that the signal cuts in and out in the mountains/hills and the sound is only just acceptable but could be "better"....

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: aphex

Yea, i think XM has some commercials on a few of their music stations (dunno which or how many though), Sirius only has them on the talk/news stations, not their music stations.

All the XM programmed stations are commercial free. The four music stations programmed by Clear Channel (the devil) have commercials.

The News/Talk/Comedy/Sports stations have commercials.

I just looked at their channel lineup, it looks like they've changed a lot of the lineup around, which is good. Before, I was only listening to about four channels for music.

I may resubscribe this year if they do the Friends and Family thing again. I'd like to get a boombox for home.

 

[gregshin]

i had both services and i like sirius the best

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Gooooooooo Sirius! I have been a happy customer for a year now.

 

[V00DOO]

I have not listen to regular radio since I got Sirius!

 

[aphex]

boredom bump

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Sweet! I'm an XM subscriber, but I support Satellite radio in general.
After having Satellite radio for years, I can't stand OTA radio at all anymore.

:thumbsup:

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
if dish or directTV had a combo package with either siruis or XM, that would get me to switch

DirecTV has (many) of the XM music channels, but of course, not the sports/talk channels.

I don't recall paying any extra for it, either.

 

[Rubycon]

XM > Sirius.

We listen to XM101 a lot. It's appropriately called "The Joint".

:laugh:

 

[shortspanishguy]

BABABOOEY

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: FoBoT
if dish or directTV had a combo package with either siruis or XM, that would get me to switch

DirecTV has (many) of the XM music channels, but of course, not the sports/talk channels.

I don't recall paying any extra for it, either.

i know about that, and dish carries siruis channels, what i mean is if i have both, i get a discount. pay less for having both

i have dish and XM , but if i could get dish/sirius for less $ than i pay for seperate dish and XM service , i would switch