Here's mine in order of preset in my truck

60 - New Country
61 - Prime Country
9 - The Pulse
21 - Alt Nation
24 - Lithium
1 - Sirius Hit's One
12 - Super Shuffle
15 - Classic Rewind
108 - Maxim Radio (basically just for Covino and Rich in the afternoon)
23 - Hair Nation

 

100 - Howard 100
120 - ESPN Radio
123 - Sporting News Radio
28 - Faction
108 - Maxim radio

and occasionally CNN.

I had Sirius back in 2003 when it first came out and the paid like $150 for 2 years of service. At the prices they are at now and the drop in quality, there's no way I'll be renewing my Sirius after the year is up.

 

I had Sirius back in 2003 when it first came out and the paid like $150 for 2 years of service. At the prices they are at now and the drop in quality, there's no way I'll be renewing my Sirius after the year is up.

Yikes! It's too bad they don't change their business model. Make it free but put short commercial breaks on the highest rated music stations. The talk stations have advertizements already. If they ran it the same way the local stations did, they'd probably win due to the long range abilities. One can dream I guess. :Racing:

 

I might use Sirius during a cross-country trip, but so far, it hasn't replaced my local favourites. I won't be renewing.

 

Actually, the merger isn't blocked by Congress, the FCC is currently deciding whether to let it proceed. It depends on if they view the market as "satellite radio" (if that is the case, it would result in a monopoly, and no merger) or "all radio, including terrestrial" (plenty of competition, green light). A few years ago, Dish and DirecTV tried to merge, and the FCC interpreted the market as satellite TV, and didn't consider terrestrial TV or cable TV as competition and scuttled the merger. It seems that they may let Sirius and XM merge, but we'll see if it goes. It remains to be seen what kind of programming would remain in the event of a merger, and if new equipment would be needed.

The sat radio stuff I listen to is:
Big Tracks
Lucy
80s
90s
The Blend
And a few others.

Oh wait... those are XM. Silly me. I still think XM does a far better programming job than Sirius.

But, for Sirius, I tended to listen to Lithium more than the rest (it is one of the few channels that can hold up against XM's similar offerings, the family comedy channel is another, but The Pulse gets its rear handed to it by the XM 90s channel as well as Flight 26 and XM Hitlist, since that's 3 channels covering what Sirius puts on one).

Right now, I plan to let the Sirius subscription lapse after the free year, and I'll keep using my XM Tao in the Jeep. If they do merge and I can get XM programming on the Sirius in-dash, I'll probably remove the Tao and pay for that receiver too. But that's a couple of ifs, and neither is a guarantee.

 

The FCC is one of 4 or 5 organizations in the way, and certainly not the biggest opponent. The SEC and the Department of Justice, but the biggest hangup with the Senate AnitTrust task force that has a lot of money pouring in from terrestrial radio organizations... but basically what you say is true.

 

Sattelite radio sounds interesting.
So far i know we don´t have it in europe. It´s all FM here.

 

Really? Wow, I thought you guys had sat too. I used to see it as grossly inferior to AM/FM, but it has its advantages. So long as the receiver can see the sky, you can listen to the same channel crystal clear anywhere in the country. A buffer reads ahead in case you drive under a bridge or something. The Sat Radio + the Boston sound system is a match made in heaven!

 

Well there is a switch from analog FM to DAB (digital audio broadcast) here since a short time but most cars have still FM Radios.
You can listen to 100 DAB Radiostations but i don´t know if you can listen to the same station countrywide.
Whe also have DVB-T so in Theorie you should be able to watch digital TV while driving at least the passengers should be able too,lol.

So the mayority will still listen to FM at least the next 3-4 years before analog Radio will be shut down.

 

Howard 100/101--80% of the time
Maxim
Buzzsaw
Octane
70's
80's
Pulse
CNN
Seattle weather & traffic
Patriot(sometimes lol)
Playboy

 

I'm starting to see 'Maxim' pop up several times. What's that station all about?

 

I will have to get back on this thread in a few weeks. I currently am an XM sub scriber and will have to learn all of the Sirius channels.

OR we can hope for the merger to go through and then I will just let you know what my fav XM channels are. I can say this with some confidence as from what I have been reading, the music channels will merge so that they are common to both but the other programming that is provider specific now will stay with that provider (ie Stern, Oprah, Martha, NFL, MLB, NASCAR, ...)

 

Raw Dog.
BBC News.
Outlaw Country.
Kidstuff when toddler is in the car.
Spa 73 and CoffeeHouse for the wife.

I'd listen to a metal station if they had one, but they don't. I'm mostly a black/death kind of guy and Sirius thinks that Def Leppard is a metal band.

 

I'd listen to a metal station if they had one, but they don't. I'm mostly a black/death kind of guy and Sirius thinks that Def Leppard is a metal band.

Right! Any marginal life form should know that Def Leppard is a cat with poor hearing that can't spell!

 

I'm with firemothjoe - Area 33 is vital for driving anywhere within 50 miles of NYC.
The traffic channel info is OK, but their audio is annoying.
I thought I would like what Sirius offered, but after a few months, most of the programming is boring. But I do know where they keep Nina Blackwood, Cousin Brucie and Pat St John. Makes it easy to avoid them.

 

I have had Sirius for three years now in my Town and Country and was wxcited to jump at the fact that I could get it in my Patriot. I have not listened to free radio since, except for my beloved Indians, but hopefully once the merge goes through I wont need to ever tune into FM/AM again. We currently have two subscription, mine and in my hubbies truck. I have the original sportster that we hardwired into my van but it comes out and connects to the boombox at home.

My favs
Howard 100 and 101
Channel 8 The Big 80's
Channel 76 Siriusly Sinatra
any channel with NFL and NHL
130 CNN
Rawdog is good on trips
Margaritiaville (cant remember the channel, it is on my preset)
The Pulse

 

I seeked about Satellite Radio in Europe and what i found doesn´t sound promising.
Too complicate, different languages, different laws
too expensive, you need to pay for it
too many FM Radio stations everywhere.
Increasing numbers of digital audio broadcast Radiostations
and last the upcoming WIMAX.

 

Blues "74"

or Howard "100" when he isn't a rerun.
I have a lifetime subscription on my other Sirius Radio, it cost $500 I got when Howard first moved over from KRock. In another 8 months I'm at my break even point and free from then on.

 

As we are close to the Maine border I had been listening to NPR FM on my Dakota - but it is just on the fringe of reception. Now with Sirius in th Patriot I listen to 134 NPR and to CBC 137- I never thought that I would ever use Sat Radio but I really like the clear reception aand I plan on subscribing once my year is up in Oct 2008

 

Satellite favs...um....I'd have to say XM all the way

I have XM, paid subscription with my wife's van.

There's no way I'm gonna may for Sirius after the free year runs out...I'll go with an aftermarket XM unit first...

just my $.02

 

Thought "Satellite Radio" was a joke until the Pat came along, One day of driving and listening and I'm an addict. Well except for local AM talk radio.

#1 Octane
#2 Faction
#3 Hard Attack
#4 80's
#5 Blue Comedy
#6 Raw Dog

#1 is 85% of the time.epper:

 

I wish they had stoner, doom, and black metal stations. But me n the chief, we could ride.

 

Thanks! Hope that's near "Republik" ski country, then your on.

 

I can't remember one by one but

1- 36 (techno)
2- 35 (techno)
3- 33 (techno)
4- outlaw country
5- latin
6- UGH! can't remember (rock I think)
7- 1 top songs or something
8- pop
9-classic rock
10- sinatra ch (one of my favs)
11- another rock I think
12- empty (might put classic?)

its very broad

 

Been seeing a lot of Howard. Think I try that channel out for a while.

What channel will have the most Metallica, Ozzy, and AC/DC? My guess is Octane, or Buzzsaw. Is that correct?

 

i don't even listen to terrestrial radio anymore, i love the sirius
here are a few of my presets;

100
30
33
1
8
43
31
24

i'm definatly going to buy the service when my free time is up.

 

same here. I love it. I"m going to buy a year subs. when it runs out

 

there is this guy on 25 I think (I haven't listened yet) but its on from 3-6 he is supposedly hilarious. its talk show about sex related stuff. very amusing stuff if you are in your 20s (or 30s even) I guess

I've been listening to Area 33 (33 DUH) alot lately. I Like it

I didn't really like octane, and I thought I would....

 

I am completely addicted to sirius.

21
31
Philly traffic station--136 I think