XM radio no longer commercial free

When DirecTV came out with the news of the switch and I decided to wait on making the plunge into satellite radio until I could sample XM - and I'm sure glad I waited. I've now heard XM via DirecTV and Sirius during a trip to NY & back and am sure glad I never signed up. Hafta agree that Music Choice had a much better playlist, too - at least for me. I find the XM equivalents are just flat-out irritating.

The other kinda hard part to admit is that I've also had a broadband connection (for work - yeah, that's the ticket...) and am now suddenly seriously considering just dumping DirecTV and switching to total landline. We'd lose a little (mostly extraneous) programming but the cost would go down. After listening to XM for 3+ weeks I do wonder about how this could be as popular as it seemed?

I want my, I want my Music Choice...

Thanks for your responses ... I was considering a subscription because commercial radio is so bad and I'm starting to get into classical with not much in my collection to choose from yet. I thought it would help me to select musical pieces I like without buying a bunch of music I wont listen to. I have Comcast music channels but you don’t get much of a selection - I thought Serius would fill the void.

WAKE UP SERIUS ... YOU JUST LOST A FUTURE CUSTOMER!!!

Send that to them in an email ...

The Horse

I didn't even know I had Sirius on my Dish programming until a teenager found it. I'm now hooked on "standards" channel(shows my age). On the Jams channel they play the Dead but at night you have to listen to Bill Walton's drug induced rambling-sometimes for 10 minutes- between songs. Elvis channel is cool. "Deep Cuts" plays more obscure songs from various artists- the kind you don't hear on the usual "classics" stations. At least now they put the Christian stations in one group. I could see them dropping the dish music stations and charging us less. I haven't listened to them since I found Sirius. Dan

Ironically, I have Comcast cable with Music Choice.
I love Music Choice, BUT I TOO find that they do alot
of repeating the same song/artist every 4-6 hours.
I DO like the fact that we have a choice like
Siruis and XM, BUT I DON`T have either because
I REFUSE to pay $10-12 a month, WHEN I could
spend that money on a new CD.
I only listen to Music Choice
Area Rock, and sometimes, I listen to
Classic Rock, 80`s and rarly Heavy Metal.
The Metal station USED to be good back in 1996-97
when it was called DCR Digital Cable Radio.
NOW, they play too much srceaming music,
Mudvange, Disturbed crap. I PAID for that service
back then, BECAUSE the regular local radio stations
were still playing that ALT. music crap,
Toad the wet sprocket, Spin Doctors crap, so I
had NO CHOICE! In Chicago, we have
97.9 The Loop, and that`s it. And in Indiana we have
103.9 XRock and that`s it. So, Music Choice is better
than NO CHOICE. YOU`RE better off just buying the
CD`s and ripping them to a CD-R to play in the car!

I'm non-commercial and an extraordinary music listener. First three months i had XM service free in my new Suburban and than I pay for that no more.

XM radio helped me to develop new different artists another words overwhelmed me with loads of different information while I had a free trial.

As to DJs I usually listen to WFMU (wfmu.org) FM radio station that has DJs. Their DJs drive the program the way that lousy artists sound real cool.