Anybody still have SiriusXM?

Ellis Miller · Post by **Ellis Miller** » 12 Sep 2012 4:56 pm

SiriusXM changed their programming a year or so ago and stopped playing many of the artists lots of us enjoyed. If there is anyone with a subscription, I would like to know if anything has changed since the uproar - if the Country Music programming has gotten any better.

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 12 Sep 2012 5:55 pm

I have it but I never listen to country, Jazz is my favorite genre, and I also listen to gospel occasionally.

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 12 Sep 2012 7:52 pm

I still have it. I spoke with Dallas Wayne in St. Louis and he told me they were allowing more of the Texas style country music to be played. I have noticed that over the past month or two. Dallas will play Johnny Bush, Amber Digby, Bobby Flores, Tony Booth, Darrell McCall, Curtis Potter and some others that could name but I hate to type so I didn't. It is getting better, maybe not like it was over a year ago but better since then.

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 13 Sep 2012 11:22 am

Yup. Listen to Willie's Roadhouse and Book Radio 90% of the time.

Bill Kellum · Post by **Bill Kellum** » 13 Sep 2012 3:11 pm

I plan on getting my XM hooked back up in order to listen to the Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale radio show. With those 2, no way it's not a great show.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 14 Sep 2012 1:58 am

I have it on a new car that came with the free trial.

I mostly listento Wille's Place. Occasionally to the Bluegrass channel.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 14 Sep 2012 7:10 am

I decided not to pay for radio when they decided years ago to give Howard Stern a half-billion dollars to join them. As if that wasn't enough money, he turned around this year and tried (unsuccessfully) to sue them for another 300 million.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-s ... hrown-out/

I don't believe the quality of my life has suffered without either one of them.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 15 Sep 2012 2:12 pm

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 17 Sep 2012 6:57 am

yes I have it, a lifetime subscription..I find value value..I listen to many stations..Country, Rock , Jazz, Bluegrass etc...

I really don't care if Howard Stern is on the radio for big bucks.. That's like saying I'm not watching Cable or Satellite TV because they have Tom Cruise movies where he gets paid north of 20 million for each movie.....

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Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 17 Sep 2012 7:42 pm

No, it's like saying I'm not paying to watch cable or satellite TV because they have Tom Cruise on, etc. etc.
Does anybody remember when radio and television were free?

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 18 Sep 2012 8:51 am

Barry Blackwood wrote:...
Does anybody remember when radio and television were free?

Actually, they never were free. Someone else was paying for it.

Sounds a bit like free healthcare.

Oh, and as to the original question, I cancelled mine earlier this year. My vehicles can both play directly from a USB stick.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 18 Sep 2012 9:31 am

I listened to XM last night...first time in months...loved it!I heard several of my favorite records in a row...Paycheck TWICE in an hour!

No complaints here...

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 18 Sep 2012 12:30 pm

Does anybody remember when radio and television were free?

Actually, they never were free. Someone else was paying for it.

Ok, I'll put it another way - I never got a monthly bill for any of it...

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 19 Sep 2012 8:34 am

I knew what you meant, Barry. Just knit picking silliness at lunchtime.

I hope they do well and I my get back on to it someday. Right now, I'm enjoying listening to all the recordings I have acquired over the years and a few additions via iTunes and downloads. Nice to hear the pure country stuff is again being featured.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 19 Sep 2012 8:50 am

If there was a "traditional" commercial country music radio station locally (or at least that I could receive) I wouldn't consider Sirius/XM. Until I got a new car with statellite installed, its been years since I listened to commercial country radio.

Brian McGaughey · Post by **Brian McGaughey** » 19 Sep 2012 6:51 pm

Ben Lawson wrote:I still have it. I spoke with Dallas Wayne in St. Louis and he told me they were allowing more of the Texas style country music to be played. I have noticed that over the past month or two. Dallas will play Johnny Bush, Amber Digby, Bobby Flores, Tony Booth, Darrell McCall, Curtis Potter and some others that could name but I hate to type so I didn't. It is getting better, maybe not like it was over a year ago but better since then.

I noticed this, too. I've heard more of the of the artist you mentioned, Ben. After the change to 56 they weren't doing any of that Texas shuffle style. Now I hear a little of it.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 27 Sep 2012 7:31 am

The pendelum is always swinging.

Just about the time you might get to thinkin'..."Hey, maybe they got their act together, the tunes are great..", someone will screw it up again in the name of "improving listener experience".

Someone always has to fix what ain't broke..............

My worst encounter with this was with a sudden stoppage on an AT&t Long Lines transcontinental telephone link from New Jersey to Amsterdam. Took a year to find the switch someone threw "arbitrarily".

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 28 Sep 2012 9:31 am

A years subscription came free with my 2008 MKX, and I may have logged 10 hours listening to it, but I have never renewed. I just don't spend that much time in my car anymore.