XM vs Sirius

AOIIalum · #1 03-13-2008, 07:05 PM

I've had Sirius for almost two years now and love it. Lots of sports channels, although both the SEC and NHL moved to XM this year, although occasional games are still broadcast on Sirius. They'll also carry the entire NCAA tournament! If you're into the NFL they carry every game each week, and most of those are home and away broadcasts. Great music channels, especially my beloved First Wave and the all Bruce Springsteen channel (which includes concert broadcasts two or three times/day!) Before Bruce there was an all Rolling Stones channel and an all Who channel. There are also dedicated channels for Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Grateful Dead.

Oh, yeah, there's also this guy named Howard Stern who used to be on terrestrial radio and now has two channels on Sirius. I'll be honest, he's why I picked Sirius.

ETA: it's even cheaper if you go with a longer term vs. paying by the month. I think I'm paying less than $10/month by doing that.

AnchorAlumna · #2 03-13-2008, 07:32 PM

I LOVE my XM radio!
I listen to a lot of the decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s...(what can I say, I'm a geezer!)...and a lot of the Broadway channel.
Couple of things I do NOT like...the '60s channel is set up like a radio station from the 1960s...a bad one, with the DJ screaming and talking over the start and end of a song. We listened to the old radio program channel and a couple of the comedy channels during a recent trip and were surprised to hear a lot of advertising. I thought they had no advertising.
And Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville channel (Buffett and TropRock music) is only on Sirius

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Do call and ask for the best deal paying a year at a time. My husband got the XM subscription for me for Christmas and only paid $77 for the year. Good deal!
Just wish I had it on a radio at work & home. XM's Web site sux...it's hard to figure anything out on it.

angelic1 · #3 03-13-2008, 08:35 PM

I have had Sirius for over a year now.. and I love it except for one thing - I have just had problems with the antenna on my roof everyonce in a while. Once again its out and I need to take it in.

Other than that when it is working I love the talk radio.