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He's going to be 10 times more entertaining on Sirius but's it's not enough to make me buy it.

Be counterproductive to hearing Stern though.

I subscribed to XM for a while and cancelled because there was nothing I really cared to hear. This was 2 years ago so things may have changed but the way I think of it is this:

XM - Plays a bunch of junk you have never heard before. If you are looking to discover new things, this is for you.
Sirius - Plays more stuff that you are probably familiar with. This can be good and bad.

When I had XM, even the holiday channel was foreign to me. They would devote a channel to playing Christmas music and most of it was songs I had never heard before. This may have changed though, it has been a while.

My wife has listened to Sirius in her friend's vehicle and she said it is a lot better about playing more stuff that she is familiar with and not playing the same songs over and over. With XM, she was typically in the car at the same times of the day and if she listened to the same station (Lucy) she would hear the same songs at the same times every day.

Even though I have an XM subscription, I also looked into Sirius and they were both nearly identical in programming selection, except for few differences. So it ended up coming down to price for a year subscription for me and XM was cheaper, and I love it.

I like having the nearly overwhelming selection of channels covering everything from electronic/dance to old school r&b to hip/hop to country to pop to oldies channels to country to reggae.

Good God there's even a "E" channel like you get on cable, not that I would even bother to listen to it! It's like regular radio, only better with far more choices and no commercials for auto-dealerships, strip-clubs or "male-stamina-enhancement" pills, which is nice. Best of all it less than 50 cents a day, which is less than the price of most daily newspapers, personally I think you would like it.

What the hell kind of radio market do you live in??

Heathen

I convinced the wife to get me sirius radio for xmas. im listening the the stern show right now. since im on the west coast im on a 3 hour delay. john the stutterer is on right now... its taking him like 20 minutes to say hello...

i cant wait till january so i can hear stern uncut and raw.

I wonder where you get your facts. It is a well known fact that crackwhores sit at a square table with their pimp at one end and the top crackwhore at the other. A round table would imply equality among crackwhores.

I listened to the second half of the show this morning on the way into work. I'll miss the show. Although, much like yourself, I am contemplating getting Sirius. He’s of course saying that the next five years will be awesome again. The last couple of years slipped due to FCC harassment. I’m guessing he may even go a little overboard. It could be fun.

I'm a long time listener off and on since my college days in the 80's (I know, I'm old). It was a great last show, the whole week was great with Jackie the Jokeman on yesterday as well.

I honestly didn't think my wife would view Satellite radio as a reasonable expense, but I was surprised she suggested it - it actually makes sense, since we live out in the boonies and lose half of the Baltimore/Washington stations (like the one Howard was just on) when we hit our city limits (Westminster, MD).

I heard Sirius had decent sports coverage as well - I wonder if we'll be able to pick up some SF Giants baseball games...

So yeah, after Christmas, we'll be looking into it. In the meantime, we'll give the Junkies a listen as well until we get Sirius.

WLS-890 AM for talk radio. Usually Roe Conn's afternoon show. Even then, I don't really go for "shows" that much, AM or FM since I only listen while driving and invaribly wind up with 70% commercials and am leaving the car as soon as they get into something good.

FM band is usually WXRT, The Drive, 99.9, Jack-FM or the station that plays out of North Central College in Naperville. None of which are trying to sell me on strip clubs and co[/i]ck salves. The last time I turned on WCKG, they were still playing Rush, Led Zepplin and the Alan Parson Project.

Do you remember the "All 80's" station from about five years back? They used to constantly play a commerical for some herbal supplement snake oil. It was Brother A telling Brother B how hot Bro B's wife was and how much Bro A loved the look of her tits and ***. [i]That was pretty friggin' creepy at 8:00am while driving to work.

Edited, Fri Dec 16 13:52:23 2005 by Jophiel

This would be great and all, if I only cared about your opinion.

I listened to a good portion of the last show today on 92.3 K Rock out of NY.

They actually cut out parts of his goodbye speech? It sure sounded that way.

Anyway, I wasn't a loyal fan but I have listened off and on throughout the years and he will be missed.

Like Stern said, Last of a dying breed.