Anyone try thr new Sirius satellite radio system?

XM has 3.2 million subscribers, while Sirius has still fewer than 1,000,000. Stern is going to cost them $100 million a year over 5 years. That seems nuts to me. They need to add a million subscribers just to pay for him. That means that they are counting on ove 10% of Stern's current listeners to subscribe. Very risky.

No commercials?!!

In 15 months Howard is going to have to fill 33% more air time since he runs so many Goddamned commercials on FCC controlled air waves!

For me, I forsee the future of my long drives including both XM or Sirius and an iPod.

100 million...WOW...I hadn't heard that...I only caught the short blurb...I can see where it is risky now...but I still have a feeling that he may be able to pull it off crazy as it seems.

I have both XM and Sirius home units. My XM Delphi Skyfi sounds better than the Sirius Audiovox 2 tuner. More band width on XM, bigger soundstage, image, etc. I find that Sirius has a tighter play list, and has more NPR and play by play sports. XM has more music variety, better sound to my ears, and better sports talk and news. I like them both but XM is the clear winner for me.

The problem I have with this is that you're paying to listen to the radio. Granted, there are less/no commercials, but when you grow up listening to the radio for free you find it hard to pay for it. I guess some people have the same problem with cable tv.