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I’ve been hooked on sat radio from day one. Stern was a huge huge bonus but I’ve had it from the begining!

I sit by the laptop and listen and browse the web, tv on mute for sports.

It is an absolute obsession it is so good. Channel changes rock, I have the virus now for when stern is off. The sport talk is phenominal! I own an iPhone and a touch but all I care about is a Sirius app. I own a S50, jvc with lifetime sub, stiletto 1 and 2. And I’m thinking on the xmp3. Thanks for listening……I LOVE SIRIUSXM…..!

Mike

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This is first in a line of videos where we compare the prices of other services and products at the same price point as a month of SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio. In this case we start out with one pizza, delivered. 

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Listening to radio in the Hartford market is just a joke.  They have no good morning shows at all.  If I try and listen during the day its nothing but commercials with occasional music.

I got XM about 4 years ago when Opie and Anthony resigned and it was the best decision I could have made.  I listen to Opie and Anthony in the morning followed by Ron and Fez middays.  After work and on weekends is when I get my music in.  Depending on the mood I am in I either listen to Alt Nation Ch 47 (formally Ethel) or Octane Ch 48 (formally squizz).

They also have a bunch of great stand-up comedy channels that I listen to, and during they summer they carry every baseball game.  Definitely worth the investment!

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Oh, dear Sirius, I’ve been a fool. How could I ever have left you? Please…take me back. You can blame it all on me.

I was a subscriber to Sirius Satellite Radio for about a year and a half. My boyfriend was paying for the subscription until we had a blip on the radar and he stopped. So, I listened until the day my subscription ran out. And what a sad, sad day that was.

So, I listened to regular radio. When you’ve gotten used to Sirius, that’s not an easy transition. Commercial breaks, annoying morning chatter, and those horrible moments when those two are all that’s on and I would have to choose between them. Meanwhile, my Sirius receiver sat mounted on my dash, staring at me longingly, silent and lonely.

After two months, I couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to restart the subscription to Sirius on New Year’s Day.

I called customer service and explained my situation. The receiver had been activated previously so I didn’t have to pay any activation fees. I gave the woman on the phone my Sirius ID number, address, and billing information. The customer service woman wasn’t the greatest at sales and marketing. After explaining that my city of residence was not pronounced “Cheerios” and my last name was not “Cheryl”, she finally got my information. After trying to sell me the “more money up front but cheaper overall” deals, I settled on a monthly plan. Lucky me, since the monthly billing period starts on the 1st of the month. My timing was perfect.

My Sirius is back and I’m in love. Sure, regular radio is free and no one wants to PAY for radio. Wrong! This girl does, pal.

Regular radio just just can’t compete. It has nowhere near the music selection of Sirius. I have an ear for all types of music and I don’t like being forced to settle for whatever is on the mainstream channels. Also, with regular radio, I found myself discovering fewer songs I liked and wanted to download. This may have been because I mainstream music beat songs into our heads before introducing new stuff, or because regular radio doesn’t display the song information unless the station has the text option enabled.

I love having a variety of genres to choose from and explore, so Sirius fits me perfectly. All without commercials! Highly recommended.

Things That Cream My Twinkie:
* Rocking out and having the artist and song title right in front of me on the display. Avoids the “Let me see if I can catch a lyric and look it up later” crap.
* I am one happy girl so long as my little orange Sirius receiver is up and running.
* The traffic on the 101, the Sinatra station, Top 40, 80’s on 8, some country, a little bit of comedy, and NPR…all at my fingertips.
* I will never again search through channels of static on road trips.
* $12.95 a month for all this glory. I love it.

Things That Suck The Filling Out Of It:
* My receiver is mounted on my dash, not on the roof of my car (as recommended). This makes for skipping or dropping out when I drive under any type of large cement structure (parking garages, drive-thru ATMs, overpasses, etc.). Annoying, but I’ve gotten used to it.

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Nothing like four wheeling in a Jeep in the snow with Liquid Metal on

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Often times I’m too busy running around trying to get things done. Talking on the phone way too much to listen to music. Well last night I decided to just go with the flow of music. So at the end of the day instead of just driving home I drove around the city of Chicago, the lakefront really from Downtown to Evanston on North Lakeshore Drive and Sheridan Road with my SIRIUS Radio on. It was just what I needed. Just some time to listen to the music. For me having some free time to do this is like a meditation. It brings me back where I need to be. And lately I’ve been opening up the number of channels I listen to. I’ve been lately listening to Hip Hop Nation (40), BBc 1 (11), Backspin (39), Alt Nation (21), BPM (36), Area (38), and 90s on 9 (9). It’s been really refreshing to change it up. 90s on 9 and Hip Hop Nation have been stations that I’ve enjoyed a lot during the day. I also get a kick out of the Subwoofer Bass when I have Hip Hop Nation on. I have a direct connect system where the sound quality is excellent. A lot of times I worry too many people out there are using an FM Transmitter where you won’t get any decent sound quality from your radio. But that’s another story. But to just listen for an hour or so driving around was what I needed. The other time I get this kind of satisfaction is from listening to the blocks of music I recorded on my XMP3 Portable. 

Taylor

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Ok, you want a story, here’s a story.

My name is Duane, and I’m addicted to Satellite Radio.

It’s not something that happened over night.  This addiction took years.  It started with one simple subscription to XM back in July of 2002, and blossomed into multi-subs to both Sirius and XM.  Since that day in 2002, I’ve not had to drive my truck and had to listen to any terrestrial radio unless I wanted to.

Buying my first XM Radio was simple enough.  I walked into a Circuit City and shelled out $300.00 for a Sony Plug-N-Play radio.  It wasn’t a fancy radio by any means, but it came at a premium.  Radio, car dock, and antenna.  Everything this gateway drug had to fuel a much harder addiction.  And installation was quite easy, too.  Just plop the radio on the dash, hook up the power into the cigarette lighter, throw the tape deck addaptor in the tape deck and away you went.

The Sony PNP had a two line display with six presets (I think.  It’s been a long time).  The black display with bright blue letters and numbers scrolled from channel to channel.  No fancy key pad.  My passion started to grew.

Most of what I listened to back then was NASCAR.  Still is, but I’m listening to more and more music channel and the NFL and MLB.  NASCAR was really the real clincher for me when it came to which service I was going to get.  I love hearing those race cars and truck go around and around.  The announcers discribing all the action, like I was sitting here right at the track, as I drove down the highway.  Weekends driving was (and still is in a way) scheduled around the races.  Getting to listen to the races to pass the miles is quite enjoyable.

The Sony PNP managed to sustain my addiction for a year.  Then it was off to bigger and better radios.  The Delphi SkyFi would become my next radio of choice.  With its bigger, more info showing red display and 10 key touch pad, it fueled my need for this medium even more.  The remote was small and nicely shaped.  It fit in the palm of my hand so well.  It was like Yoda holding his light saber.  I would weld it to my advantage.  Changing channels at will.  When I song came on that I didn’t like, that little remote made it easy to cut off the song as it stood for another, more pleasent tune.  Need a sports score?  Just use that little remote and off you were to sportsland.

This was only the first year and a half or so with satellite radio.  The real addiction started to spread when I introduced this medium to my ex-girlfriend.  Then came more radios.  New ones for me and for Cyndi.  And this would not be the end of it.  With the announcment of NASCAR leaving XM at the end of the 2006 Season for Sirius at the beginning of 2007, I would have to expand my passion even more.  To newer and better radios.  Ones that recorded the races and programs that I loved to listen to.  Trying to cut back now was only going to be futile.

Duane

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Backspin along with Boneyard and The Strobe are back on SIRIUS XM. And Str8isis is more than happy. Just keep in mind this video is probably better to just listen to since it makes me dizzy with the camera moving around so much. 

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I love my Sirius XM.  
 
Where to begin.
 
As with many people, the news that Howard Stern was moving to Sirius Satellite Radio was the catalyst for me becoming a subscriber.  I had become a HUGE Howard Stern fan while actually working for a radio station that carried him-WQXA-in Pennsylvania.  I stopped working there and moved away from the area, out to the Western part of the state where it was hard to hear the Stern Show.  I could get it for a few minutes a day from a station about 50 miles away in Pittsburgh but that was it.  Go too far in any direction other than West and I would lose the show.   I was driving in my car that day listening to the show when he was telling everyone that he had a huge announcement to make.  I pulled over to the shoulder of the highway, work be damned, and left the car running as I listened to him break the news that when his current contract was up, he was moving on to this thing called Sirius.  I was so thrilled that I started calling all of my old friends and even some of my old contacts from the radio station to get their thoughts—they were NOT pleased.  I was ecstatic. 
 
A few weeks later, I walked into my local electronics store and walked out with my first Sirius Radio, the Xact Visor.  I bought the cheapest one just in case this Sirius turned out to be a mistake.  How wrong I was.  In less than a day I was hooked.  Howard hadn’t started yet of course but I found Maxim radio and became big fans of Covino and Rich.  Octane, Alt Nation and the NFL channel quickly became presets.  Being in outside sales and driving for hours everyday, Sirius was the single greatest thing I could have imagined–no commercials, unedited, never lose a signal, the programming was new–this was the best thing ever.  I told everyone how great Sirius radio was (Xm could suck it).  Most of my friends got so sick of hearing my talk about Sirius that they eventually bought it themselves just so they would know what I was talking about.  
 
January 9th 2006 I woke up at 5.30 am and got in my car.  I had nowhere to go, work didn’t start for a few hours so I just got in and drove.  There was no way I was going to miss this.  Howard’s first day.  I had become a Sirius addict without Howard.  With Howard I knew my addiction would just grow. For weeks I had nothing but a smile on my face because I was back to having the Stern show everyday but I still had all the other great channels too–this was the best.
 
Since that time I have gone through 6 radios (xact visor, S50, Stiletto 100, SL2, and two Stratus 3’s), two boomboxes, one Soloist, now have two subscriptions plus the premium internet service.  I have again changed jobs–I now drive even more than before-but Sirius XM is very important to me, so important that I can’t imagine life without it.  I look forward to 5 hour drives early in the morning because that just means I can listen to an entire Stern show.  Long drive in the afternoon? No problem, that means I can catch up on Bubba the Love Sponge and listen to Covino and Rich while cathching some new music on Alt Nation.  My SL2 rarely every leaves my side.  It has become part of me in the way your always take your keys and wallet with you wherever you go, I also take my SL2.
 
Sirius Radio means so much to me that I once willingly drove my car while the heat was no longer working in it because the other car that had heat didn’t yet have Sirius installed in it.  This was in January in Western PA.  It was 20 degrees out that day.  The drive sucked but at least I had the Stern show to keep me entertained.  That is how much I love SiriusXM. 
 
People that get Sirius XM are almost cult like in their instant devotion to such an awesome product.  They get it, install it and instantly become hooked.  Then they start showing their friends and for some reason take in upon themselves to convert new listeners.  
 
We are passionate and now we are many.
 
I love my Sirius XM.  
 
Couldn’t imagine life without it and hopefully I will never have to.

Bryan from PA

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