as for the music channels, i like what i got but from what i understand xm also has a good playlist, so hopefully the merger will complment both of them. but what I want is hockey back (if for no other reason than to listen to flyers games wherever i am and not have to get the nhl center ice plan from comcast). as well, it will be nice to listen to penn state games without needing the net. and as for the lefty channel over on XM, eat Lynn Samuels’ and Alex Bennett’s shorts. but finally, i only listen to local radio anymore for local talk and maybe coast to coast am.

i am betting in 5 or so years, that most terrestrial stations will go to mainly local content while networked shows will head onto the sattelite radio and the net.

This isn’t any incentive for me to subscribe to XM or Sirius. Especially Oprah. I can’t avoid hearing her fawn all over Tom Cruise, enough. And no doubt Limbaugh is stinking up their airways too. If I want to listen to music on a long trip, I’ll take along my MP3 player. XM is for radio-addicts, who can’t get enough programming choices, to the point of absurdity. Doubtless, most of them are only slightly varied, to the point of being indistinguishable, without their channel logos. Like Tv shopping channels that carry only a select quality of CRAP you don’t need!

As for the long haul drivers, of whom XM probably got its start with. $4 a gallon gas will probably shorten both their trips, and the radio subscriptions. XM may not survive, being it’s never shaken being a luxury. It will have to depend on the top 5% of american incomes to support it. It may not get that many.

“setting aside 8 percent of their channel capacity for minority and non-commercial programming”

This bothers me as much as infomercials on my cable. I am paying for a premiem service. To force them to include this crap may keep them from including some good programing. Would you except infomercials on your HBO? And yes I can read “noncommercial programing” but that is what it is alreaddy offering.

Anyone who says ‘I won’t pay for radio!’ let me guess, you still picking up TV for free?

I’ve had XM since the day it launched, and haven’t once regretted it. No commercials, no moronic DJs trying to be ‘funny’ infinitely better music choices. Anyone who says ‘I won’t pay for radio!’ isn’t a music fan.

There are a few stations on Sirius I really like (Faction, Boobox) and to get those on the same radio I get my XM? I’m stoked.

Now you losers who think 60 year old ‘technology’ such as FM is the way to go, well, old fogeys, you couldn’t be more wrong.

Multiple comedy channels, Old Time Radio Theater, Contemporary Radio Theater, every kind of talk.

Local traffic and weather for sixty markets.

American FM radio sucks, for the most part. It has been homogenized and blown out of the water by overconglomeration. There is only one message on ‘merkin radio, only one voice, only one master.

Satellite radio is great stuff.

Howard Stern, and for that matter Oprah Winfrey, make my ears bleed.

Can’t get much shorter…

Ever tried listening to the Internet stations? But of course, if you want to listen to overpaid people who whine all day long, pay to listen to Stern.

#13 – Cap’nKangaroo – And the prospect of getting both baseball and football on the same radio has me behind the merger.

That’s another good reason for not paying.