Sirius/XM Traffic and Weather Channels now features commercials.

[Ruffypup]

[somedude61]

Yeah, and it really pisses me off. I am in heavy traffic and am waiting for the traffic report and I have to wait for some stupid add. F Sirius.

[Nantrax]

Hardly surprising

I remember the Raw Dog comedy channel having commercials...even when they were playing comedy clips for 2-3 hours.

[Nantrax]

Satellite radio has become a paid service with commercials. I save 15$/month and I get the same crap for free.

[Tranquil]

The only reason why I keep sirius is I love the cinemagic channel, it's great to listen to movie music on my headphones while at work. It's relaxing.

That and Boneyard.

[Stinkfist]

I quit Sirius because of the commercials.

And then had a hell of a time trying to quit. They hung up on me, moved me around to different departments. When I started taking times and names, they sent me to collections. I had to call collections and site the names and whatnot and told them Sirius refused to let me go.

Shadiest f*cking company in the world.

And they still mail me stuff asking me to come back.

Assholes.

Viva la revolucion.

[Deltapa]

The only reason why I keep sirius is I love the cinemagic channel, it's great to listen to movie music on my headphones while at work. It's relaxing.

That and Boneyard.

If there is ever a problem with cinemax skipping or whatever, there is a free legal alternative you can use temporarily if you want.

http://hi1.streamingsoundtracks.com:8000/listen.pls

[PI Nate]

Subscription based commercial free radio...

[Art]

More and more we are seeing this service change from an HBO model to a more commercial-filled one. Which would be great if they were paying me to listen. But they aren't, and this likely will be their eventual death knell.

[stevhorn]

"Just a few commercials, Robin. Not too many, just a few."

[PI Nate]

"Just a few commercials, Robin. Not too many, just a few."

[mape]

Already cancelled home subscription....strongly thinking of cancelling in my car.

[Nemo]

greedy lazy serial liar
makes you wonder if Stern was getting a taste of advertising marbles toward the end of his FM days.

I am going to attempt to listen to some 2005 stern shows looking for Howard selling Sirius subscriptions using the 'commercial free' proclamation.

[chuk]

[MutteringJohn]

I'll tell you what, Chris "Maddog" Russo gives you a hell of a lot of talk and fairly limited commercials. Though for the most part I listen to the onDemand replay which edits out the commercials.

[rilagent]

The only reason why I keep sirius is I love the cinemagic channel, it's great to listen to movie music on my headphones while at work. It's relaxing.

That and Boneyard.

Sky.FM, ORSradio, 100Radios all stream great movie soundtracks for free. Quick use of a search engine will bring up 2 dozen more. The classic rock choices are even more numerous.

Sirius/XM's business model is as out of date as their technology. Whatever technology that comes out after 4G (5G, I guess) it's going to render Sirius useless in it's current form.

Long haul truckers are the only people I can see who need the service at the moment.

[rilagent]

More and more we are seeing this service change from an HBO model to a more commercial-filled one. Which would be great if they were paying me to listen. But they aren't, and this likely will be their eventual death knell.

I have a playlist of urls I use in the XMPlayer media player with a list of 25 music, talk, news streaming stations. All free. All but 5 commercial free, and I don't mind the commercials because I'm not paying for the service.

[Macro57]

More and more we are seeing this service change from an HBO model to a more commercial-filled one. Which would be great if they were paying me to listen. But they aren't, and this likely will be their eventual death knell.

In the beginning, cable TV was devoid of commercials. This is the same thing everyone though would happen when cable TV started playing commercials. Look at that industry now.

[Nemo]

A handful of people including Howard pocketed all the money. They all appear to know just when to sell their Sirius stock too.
After Howard signed with Sirius he spent a few months talking about a commercial free revolution all along knowing that it was a lie.

[rilagent]

In the beginning, cable TV was devoid of commercials. This is the same thing everyone though would happen when cable TV started playing commercials. Look at that industry now.

Your analogy is apt but the difference is that with satellite radio there is an emerging technology that can provide the same service for free. Cable TV, Direct TV has things like Apple TV and pc streaming video down the line to straighten them out but it isn't there yet.