New Sirius Channel To Play More Pearl Jam....

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  • pjambama
    pjambama Posts: 126
    this is awesome for those of us who listen to satellite radio. 4 example. if i want to listen to pac 10 sports or alabama sports i would have to subscribe to both sirius(only carries alabama) and xm(only carries pac 10). if this merger goes thru i'll only have to subscribe to one service

    not to mention more pearl jam!!
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    meistereder wrote:
    The good thing is it seems like Sirius is coming out on top of this merger in certain key ways -- the CEO and Board Chairman of the new company are both from Sirius, for example. Then again, I think XM has more facilities, and the fact that they have more subscribers worries me that the programming may come out favoring XM. It should be very interesting.

    Yeah when I was somewhat lerry (sp?) about getting satelitte radio it made me more conifdent when I saw that Mel Karmizan was the CEO of Sirius. Now he will be the CEO of the combined companies and he has a long history of success so I'm sure it will work out.
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  • schmoff
    schmoff Posts: 428
    sirius bought out xm, so i'd figure most of the sirius content will stay intact, xm go bye bye

    subscription fees are estimated to be $19.95/month next year
    50+ shows and lost count somewhere along the way
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    schmoff wrote:
    sirius bought out xm, so i'd figure most of the sirius content will stay intact, xm go bye bye

    subscription fees are estimated to be $19.95/month next year

    Where did you get this info?

    That's what I pay for 2 receivers right now!
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  • smartass1235
    smartass1235 Posts: 136
    schmoff wrote:
    sirius bought out xm, so i'd figure most of the sirius content will stay intact, xm go bye bye

    subscription fees are estimated to be $19.95/month next year



    where did you see the subscription fee's going up? especially by 50%? That's a big markup.they shouldnt eliminate any channelfor that price.

    For all those who love lithium, have no fear the squizz will not dissapoint. And yes I am a sirius subscriber.
    I have to say though, I'm more interested to see if dopie and anthony get the boot or not.
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  • schmoff
    schmoff Posts: 428
    i read it in the newspaper today, it is just speculation and probably wont take effect till next year
    50+ shows and lost count somewhere along the way
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    It's too bad this is happening just as baseball season is starting. As a current sirius subscriber, I would love to be able to listen to MLB this season.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • phillyfan
    phillyfan Posts: 831
    the new station is great
    If you hate something dont you do it too
    world fucking champs!!!
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,245
    In regards to a merger, the FCC has no idea what they're talking about. Satellite radio (as a whole) competes with cable radio, music choice, iPods, terrestrial radio, internet radio, etc.

    I have heard nothing about raised rates. Why would they do it? If they came together, they would no longer have to bid exhorbiant prices just to get the rights for whatever content. If the combined companies could bid $50 million instead of $500 million, then they wouldn't have a reason to charge subscribers as much.

    Sirius' CEO (Mel Karmazin) would run the combined company, and Hugh Panero (XM's CEO) would only stay on until everything is combined. It sounds just a little bit like Sirius might buy out XM.

    As far as channels would go, I don't have XM, but I hear that they have a 40's channel that plays music of that decade as well as radio reports from that time. It'd be nice to have that, just to see what people were hearing. XM's "Frank's Place", a channel playing nothing but Frank Sinatra music is coming to Sirius. Sirius had a channel with Frank Sinatra and similar music that is being dropped. To fill the void, the channel on XM formerly known as "Frank's Place" will be playing his music and similar songs.

    Hopefully they'll take the very best of the programming and combine it. Who the hell knows what'll go on beyond that? No one. This deal is still far from complete.

    With all that said, I heard Mother Love Bone with Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns a few days ago! How more deeper can you get? I was just about to change the channel when I looked at the scroll and that's what it said. :)

    A few songs after that, I heard Oceans. :)

    11:02 AM Now they're playing Soundgarden's "Birth Ritual", off the Singles soundtrack. Not Pearl Jam, but pretty close.

    11:13 AM SOLAT just ended.
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  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    The one and only thing I want in a Sirius XM merger is to NOT CHANGE THE HOWARD STERN CHANNEL. His show is perfection now and I hope it remains that good after the merger.

    Also, they better keep the Riley Martin show :)

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    NickyNooch wrote:
    The one and only thing I want in a Sirius XM merger is to NOT CHANGE THE HOWARD STERN CHANNEL. His show is perfection now and I hope it remains that good after the merger.

    Also, they better keep the Riley Martin show :)

    It will be interesting to see how Howard reacts. Of course the douche is on vacation this week.
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  • pj0705
    pj0705 Posts: 189
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    No Excuses ending right now.

    I'd really LOVE to hear something like SOLAT. :) Or Lukin, but that's kind of a short song for radio to play.

    Or even something pre-PJ. If they could get the rights to something like Bad Radio, that would really kick ass.

    Speaking of Lukin, I think I heard Mudhoney on here. Shit, maybe I didn't. :o


    But i'm now listening to Why Go on Left of Center (which STILL sounds like a politically named channel, IMO.)

    they played SOLAT on Lithium over teh weekend. They play Mudhoney on Left of Center a lot....but i doubt you heard Why Go on left of Center, probably on Octane. Left of Center doesnt play Pearl Jam.
  • jdub3001
    jdub3001 Posts: 194
    I have a Sirius subscription, but my wife has XM. I love my Sirius, mainly because it is completely UNEDITED and UNCENSORED! XM music channels (at least the ones that I have heard) CENSOR the music that they play. If I wanted to hear censored music, I would listen to terrestrial radio. My wife said it's because Clear Channel is involved with XM, and they LOVE to control what the American public listens to. As a music and Howard Stern fan, this really has me wondering what will happen to FCC free satellite radio. Does anyone have any knowledge of the extent that Clear Channel is involved with satellite radio?
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    jdub3001 wrote:
    I have a Sirius subscription, but my wife has XM. I love my Sirius, mainly because it is completely UNEDITED and UNCENSORED! XM music channels (at least the ones that I have heard) CENSOR the music that they play. If I wanted to hear censored music, I would listen to terrestrial radio. My wife said it's because Clear Channel is involved with XM, and they LOVE to control what the American public listens to. As a music and Howard Stern fan, this really has me wondering what will happen to FCC free satellite radio. Does anyone have any knowledge of the extent that Clear Channel is involved with satellite radio?

    I think some of the Sirius channels censor music, more of the hit channels. This doesn't really apply to censoring but I heard Third eye blind's "semi charmed life" the othe day on sirius (I forgot what channel) and it was the edited version.

    Channels like Octane don't censor the songs.
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  • jdub3001
    jdub3001 Posts: 194
    rrivers wrote:
    I think some of the Sirius channels censor music, more of the hit channels. This doesn't really apply to censoring but I heard Third eye blind's "semi charmed life" the othe day on sirius (I forgot what channel) and it was the edited version.

    Channels like Octane don't censor the songs.

    Maybe that's what I am hearing - the wife tends to listen the the hits channels on XM, and I tend to avoid them for the most part...
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    jdub3001 wrote:
    Maybe that's what I am hearing - the wife tends to listen the the hits channels on XM, and I tend to avoid them for the most part...

    Same here. My wife and I both have sirius in our cars and everytime I get in hers it is on Sirius hits.
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  • jdub3001
    jdub3001 Posts: 194
    Had to chuckle when I heard Lithium 24 describe itself as "the elderly woman behind the counter in a small town's favorite station"
  • homeratbat
    homeratbat Posts: 219
    sirius only censors channels that they believe younger audiences listen to more like the pop stations and all! ive never heard an edited song on the rock stations or anything like that...im not one at all for censoring music but todays "pop" songs are awful and i wouldnt want me kids listening to a song called "I want to F--k You" which was the #1 song in the country
  • homeratbat
    homeratbat Posts: 219
    jdub3001 wrote:
    Had to chuckle when I heard Lithium 24 describe itself as "the elderly woman behind the counter in a small town's favorite station"


    haha havent heard that one yet! i love "you might as well call us your fannel channel"
  • homeratbat
    homeratbat Posts: 219
    they are playing DIRTY FRANK!!!!!

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