Last night of XM how we knew it

[XMScott]

Im sure this belongs in that other channels forum but whatever!

XCountry - Cary Hudson - God Dont Never Change

39 minutes till one of the best channels on satellite radio leaves to be replaced by the shit that is Sirius.

[weeniewawa]

I think they are changing a lot of them soon

I heard eddie trunk talking last night about 41 boneyard going away till jan 15 or something.

[iSpeakEloquent]

agree with line 3 but not 2

[GoldenOne]

And then what happened?

[XMScott]

I think they are changing a lot of them soon



http://wackbag.com/showthread.php?t=99646

Tomorrow.
Sad day

Some of us dont just listen to 202, 20 on 20 and Squizz (which is also going away).

[iSpeakEloquent]

I think they are changing a lot of them soon

I heard eddie trunk talking last night about 41 boneyard going away till jan 15 or something.

the channel or his show? cuz that fuckin blows

[XMScott]

The entire channel is gone till one of those MANY single artists channels is done. Which knowing Sirius's track record is like forever.

[iSpeakEloquent]

so is the nation similar to boneyard or is it only hairbands? cuz the worst part of boneyard was too many obscure hair bands

[roche]

Tomorrow.

I assumed it was going to be at midnight EST because it says the new lineup goes into effect on 11/12

[XMScott]

XM 65 is tearing apart the radio industry

How to Kill a Radio Consultant into Rebal Without a Pause

[Goblin]

cuz the worst part of boneyard was too many obscure hair bands


and Liquid Metal is too much of the "Cookie Monster" death metal bands. Why can't they fucking have a classic metal channel?

[XMScott]

xmfan wont load anymore

Live Forever on XCountry

5 minutes till its gone

Now playing

June Carter and Johnny Cash - Will the circle be unbroken

[blueribbie]

and Liquid Metal is too much of the "Cookie Monster" death metal bands. Why can't they fucking have a classic metal channel?

Word. I loved the Metallica channel this summer.

My (2nd) favorite channel was Fungus 53. Now there is NO music channel that I like. I might get lucky passing though the 40's- but the faggot pd's have no fucking consistency on XM. You like one song and the next 20 suck dog balls- and then that same shitty set plays again the next day.

[Begbie]

Lucy has played Semisonic "Closing Time", 10,000 Maniacs "Let The Mystery Be", Radiohead "No Surprises", Green Day "Good Riddance" this last 15 mins, but are now playing Tori Amos' Nirvana cover of Teen Spirit...I don't get that one.

[XMScott]

Niether do i

So Sad To Say on Ethel

[roche]

The douche at Fred has zero imagination........

[Begbie]

Wow, just like that...Lucy is now dead air...and I lost my Virus feed on DirecTV...I guess that's it.

[roche]

Wow, just like that...Lucy is now dead air...and I lost my Virus feed on DirecTV...I guess that's it.

Fred just played a bumper and then it when right into a Morrisssy song playing on the old Sirius station

[XMScott]

Alan Parsons - Sirius on Deep Tracks

Thank god that channel is staying

[roche]

Alan Parsons - Sirius on Deep Tracks

Thank god that channel is staying

Just noticed that. Love that channel.

[PyThomas]

So is Fungus gone for good? I'm getting sick of AC/DC being on there.

[roche]

So is Fungus gone for good? I'm getting sick of AC/DC being on there.

If they ever did decide to bring it back it would be the Sirius version.

[Begbie]

Fred just played a bumper and then it when right into a Morrisssy song playing on the old Sirius station

Wierd. I guess I'm listening to Lithium now...even though it still says Lucy.

And my Inno is saying Holly is channel 51 and the spanish channels are on 55-59.

[XMScott]

Ugh at the Outlaw Country bumper

This is the worst shit ever

[roche]

Wierd. I guess I'm listening to Lithium now...even though it still says Lucy.

And my Inno is saying Holly is channel 51 and the spanish channels are on 55-59.

Power cycle it and everything updates. It did on my MiFi.

[Begbie]

Power cycle it and everything updates. It did on my MiFi.

I'll try it.

Ooo...Catholic Channel! :rolleyes:

[roche]

Ugh at the Outlaw Country bumper

This is the worst shit ever

http://www.rvca.com/skate/wp-content/themes/default/images/2008/05/91.jpg

It's over Johnny.....

[XMScott]

Manually put in XM 57 and Jerry is singing Candyman

It is Grateful Dead radio

[roche]

Word. I loved the Metallica channel this summer.

My (2nd) favorite channel was Fungus 53. Now there is NO music channel that I like.

No need to worry. You now have XM163 - The Book Channel. I shit you not. A fucking asshole reading a book. Are you telling me there are more people that like this over punk?

[Begbie]

Heh, I got the POTUS 08 background on the Holly channel. The logos are still messed up.

[Thelateshowkid]

All the station names are off on the inno, since xmfan's down does anyone know how to update it?

[Begbie]

Ooo, if you go to channel 94, which is somehow XMX...there's an XM Tone. I have a feeling I'll probably rather listen to this than Bruce's channel.

[Rusty Yates]

The XM website is down also.

[roche]

All the station names are off on the inno, since xmfan's down does anyone know how to update it?

Turning it off and back on again worked on my MyFi.

[Thelateshowkid]

Turning it off and back on again worked on my MyFi.

I tried it and it didn't work, it'll probably be fixed soon I'd guess.

[roche]

The XM website is down also.

Main site is up for me but not XMRO. They are probably updating that right now.

[iSpeakEloquent]

and Liquid Metal is too much of the "Cookie Monster" death metal bands. Why can't they fucking have a classic metal channel?

qft

Wierd. I guess I'm listening to Lithium now...even though it still says Lucy.

And my Inno is saying Holly is channel 51 and the spanish channels are on 55-59.

my xt still says fungus on the ac/dc channel and my inno every once in a while will say high voltage on 202 until i cancelled it last week cuz its the worst piece of technology ever.

[Begbie]

I tried it and it didn't work, it'll probably be fixed soon I'd guess.

Yeah, I think it's because we got all those fancy logos and shit...all of the old XM logos are still there...and the logos from the channels that were removed have shifted around.

[queguapo]

A new channel guide PDF is up on orbitcast.
here it is anyway

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/NEW_CHANNEL_LINEUP_XM_LINEUP-1.pdf

[lockjaaaaww]

So is Fungus gone for good? I'm getting sick of AC/DC being on there.

x2 ac/dc is good and all but other than the classics they don't really have the best library of songs. I hope they aren't getting rid of xm's only punk station.

[Aaron Burrito]

Manually put in XM 57 and Jerry is singing Candyman

It is Grateful Dead radio

And I instantly stored it on my presets. Lost the rhyme and raw though.

[roche]

And I instantly stored it on my presets. Lost the rhyme and raw though.

64 is the new old school channel but it isn't XL. How the fuck am I suppoested to jam out to something like some old NWA without it being an XL channel......

[Begbie]

Shit...the promos for some of these channels (so far, 90's and The Pulse) sound just like terrestrial with that loud whooshing sound effect...if that makes any sense.

[Thelateshowkid]

Wow you know things are fucked up when I switched to recorded stuff on my inno and the xm kids background of a dad pushing a kid on his tricycle shows up instead of O&A's faces. I can't wait for uncle Paul.

[Begbie]

Does anyone know what's on channel 27? My Inno says it's Take Five...but the new guide says it's The Bridge, which isn't supposed to start until January. All I hear is a long drum solo and there's nothing on the pad data.

[Aaron Burrito]

64 is the new old school channel but it isn't XL. How the fuck am I suppoested to jam out to something like some old NWA without it being an XL channel......

How can you have an edited rap channel ? That blows.

[XMScott]

Shit...the promos for some of these channels (so far, 90's and The Pulse) sound just like terrestrial with that loud whooshing sound effect...if that makes any sense.

Welcome to SIRIUSxm Radio

[badcellphoneguy]

Wierd. I guess I'm listening to Lithium now...even though it still says Lucy.

And my Inno is saying Holly is channel 51 and the spanish channels are on 55-59.

I have the XMP3 and its doing the same thing. All the channels are just all over the place. They need to regroup these channels. I think i am listening to radio margaritaville on xm 55.

[Begbie]

No need to worry. You now have XM163 - The Book Channel. I shit you not. A fucking asshole reading a book. Are you telling me there are more people that like this over punk?

I got it on now...aaaaaannnnnnd I'm immediately blocking it, I don't even wanna stumble on it ever again.

[mattiew23m]

I think they are changing a lot of them soon

I heard eddie trunk talking last night about 41 boneyard going away till jan 15 or something.

Fuckin' A. Now all I have is eddie trunk on Q104.3 which I think Xm show fits into my schedule better, and he can play uncensored stuff, and do uncensored interviews. Would love for O&A to have him on some saturdays! Gonna miss the bone. I have had Xm, before O&A, and its sad to see some of these channels go..

[mattiew23m]

I got it on now...aaaaaannnnnnd I'm immediately blocking it, I don't even wanna stumble on it ever again.

Annnd how about that playboy radio hahahaha

[roche]

At least someone went out with a bang.....

The Lucy signoff

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/xm_sat_night_signoff.mp3

[weeniewawa]

Eddie Trunk said boneyard 41 will be off till jan 14 or 15 and will be back on 53 which is where the ac/dc channel is right now. His show will be back the following monday, same time, same day of the week
but kevin cash is gone, which doesn't hurt my feelings. charlie logan programmed the channel better in my opinion

[SlimeyGoatFuckr]

Sad day.

Fred is gone
41 is now Hair Nation
X Country is OUtlaw Country
America is now Roadhouse

I'm sure there are other changes as well but now I am sad and mad.

[roche]

Sad day.

Fred is gone
41 is now Hair Nation
X Country is OUtlaw Country
America is now Roadhouse

I'm sure there are other changes as well but now I am sad and mad.

95% of everything XM is gone.

[weeniewawa]

here (http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/breaking-new-xm-channel-lineup.html) is the new line up

[weeniewawa]

202 even went a little crazy at the time of change

they went to a off air message for a few seconds

had me ascared

[Thelateshowkid]

YES!!! War and Peace volume 2 part 14 on my new favorite channel The Book Channel XM 163!

[mattiew23m]

hmmm so basically we just have sirius now... Mel could of just said, "hey you xm subscribers, you now have sirius with a few xm channels.. Glad to see we have have raw dog comedy now for Jim Breuer's show.. I will be tuning in for that.

[jeffie, lol]

I record the show daily on my Inno and the graphic of the microphone has been replaced with a kid in a ball cap riding a bicycle and what appears to be an adult male touching the boys shoulder. I dont know what that means. Sirius reference maybe??

[XMScott]

Outlaw Country sucks cock!

Ive heard Breuer's show before, and it sucked. I hope you are all as disappointed as i am :action-sm

[vaglvr]

Is there an equivalency chart available? Channel 46 = new channel 25 perhaps. I don't want to have to read to find out. This sucks.

[Arythmetics]

WTF? I was checking out the new channel names and noticed that The Virus was in the KIDS section on my Inno.

[buttwax]

can't access xm online.did that little troll fuck with everything xm today.

[Pearce]

Ive heard Breuer's show before, and it sucked. I hope you are all as disappointed as i am :action-sm

I listen to Breuer Unleashed pretty much every day, I really enjoy it. They have a bunch of comics on like O&A. Last week they had Norton and Bawby in studio on 2 consecutive days. It's a waaaay better show than anything else in afternoons. Can't wait til Correale gets on O&A.

[cokelogic]

I don't want to be the ass, but shit happens and O&A survived. That's all that matters in the end.

I'd join in to complain and mourn, but somethings we can not change.

[BeerBelly]

64 is the new old school channel but it isn't XL. How the fuck am I suppoested to jam out to something like some old NWA without it being an XL channel......

oooo Let's listen to 2 live crew on TBS!!! fuckin assholes

[Cum_Son]

They kept Chill and XMU, which is fantastic news. This might not be too bad, I guess. My jazz channel is now Spa. I highly dislike that name.

[BeerBelly]

64 is the new old school channel but it isn't XL. How the fuck am I suppoested to jam out to something like some old NWA without it being an XL channel......

oooo Let's listen to 2 live crew on TBS!!!!!

fuckin assholes

[SlimeyGoatFuckr]

95% of everything XM is gone.

I didn't realize that this is true when I posted above. Very sad. I'm glad I listened to several of my favorite XM channels hours before they were removed. I'm debating getting XM installed when I go and have my new car stereo installed later today. The car came with XM originally but these new channels are not what I paid for when I first got XM back in 2004.

[weakside]

Lost Lucy, Fred, and Ethel and although the names were awful I enjoyed the playlists on all of them.

However I'm willing to give the new alternative stations a chance and I'm glad XMU and The Chill are still around. And of course since 202 is still here (which was a deal breaker) I’ll continue to subscribe.

[J D]

Booooo
They made XM 82 The System online only. No more buttery beats for me while I drive; that sucks.:mad4:

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

At least someone went out with a bang.....

The Lucy signoff

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/xm_sat_night_signoff.mp3

Not bad. Not quite as good as I'd hoped, but it's SOMETHING.

95% of everything XM is gone.

Yep. I think this is where I drop my sub. I've been a subscriber for a little over five years (election day 2003), and they've just fucked with this one too many times. I have no interest in Mel K's dumbing down of a service that was superior in every way.

[BeerBelly]

oooooo we got this now
Radio Margaritaville playing great music and live broadcasts from multi-platinum singer, songwriter and author Jimmy Buffett.

E Street Radio bringing you closer to Bruce Springsteen through interviews, guest DJs, studio outtakes, concerts, and more.

New comedy channels, like Blue Collar Radio, featuring Jeff Foxworthy, and The Foxxhole produced by Jamie Foxx.
New talk, including SIRIUS XM Stars with favorites from our Take Five channel, plus new shows from hosts like Barbara Walters and Deepak Chopra.
yeeeeeeeechhhh

[PlanetBobKelly]

Even the comedy channels have been taken over by Sirius. Raw Dog comedy?

And I know I'm probably the only one on here livid that The Rhyme is gone, but what's the point of two mainstream rap channels and one non-XL channel but no old school station? This makes absolutely no sense.

Fuck this line up....adding the Elvis channel and taking away the old school rap station is racist....there I said it.

[ruckstande]

So for the same price I'm going to get less radio. Fantastic.

[SlimeyGoatFuckr]

Fuck this line up....adding the Elvis channel and taking away the old school rap station is racist....there I said it.

Don't be disrespecting my Elvis now. This channel was the only addition that I do like.

[FellowTraveler]

WTF? I was checking out the new channel names and noticed that The Virus was in the KIDS section on my Inno.

Most likely for the new show on the Virus, "Uncle Paul's Radio Hour"

[michelle]

pretty much all the channels i listen to are gone. the rhyme, the system, squizz, raw. ive been putting off getting rid of my xm bc of the bbboys. this might make me get rid of it again.

[LastDeadMouse]

Too bad there's no way to get just one channel, because I don't see my radio straying off of 202 ever again. All my favorites are gone at this point.

[Falldog]

I think most of my favorites just changed names. ?

Alt Nation and Octane better not suck.

[kidohio]

this sucks all the good channels are gone

[ghirshorn]

what sucks about this is that we cant cancel XM and go to Siri to get the channels back because Siri has the same shitty channels on their side.

[Three Hole Puncher]

what sucks about this is that we cant cancel XM and go to Siri to get the channels back because Siri has the same shitty channels on their side.

Yep... Mel's got us right where he wants you... bent over a pommel horse with a ball gag in our mouths.

We're pretty fucking far from okay.

[mongothetrucker]

Sirius is really trying to lose people, aren't they?

Lucy was a great channel. Sirius may make me buy an iPod.

[Capt.Quint]

First, My favorite music channel Fungus is taken away and now my second favorite music channel X Country is now replaced with the shit that is Oulaw Country. Fuck.

Well at least I have E street Radio now. This whole thing still sucks though.

[Cum_Son]

Give the new channels a listen. Most of them are pretty close as far as I can tell. So far I like the rotation. There has always been some pretty kick ass tunes on at least one of the channels, at least for today. I agree they need to make the old school rap channel an XL , though. Digging the Alt Nation and Spectrum channels.

But something has to be done about these one band channels. What inspired that crap idea. It's gotta be a tiny niche market for them. Doesn't seem worth it.

[mongothetrucker]

I heard from a fired XM program director that part of their job in the last months were to shrink the playlists to 500 songs. That's all Sirius allows for each channel.

[Three Hole Puncher]

I heard from a fired XM program director that part of their job in the last months were to shrink the playlists to 500 songs. That's all Sirius allows for each channel.

Two words... "Jack Format".

[Kustom FX]

I think most of my favorites just changed names. ?

Alt Nation and Octane better not suck.

How could Octane not suck? Its not XL! The whole point of my getting XM beyond the bbbboys was too listen to ALL the words and the stuff they dont play on terrestrial radio.. This F'ing blows!


Too bad there's no way to get just one channel, because I don't see my radio straying off of 202 ever again. All my favorites are gone at this point.

Agreed...

I have had XM since 04, and this is the final staw for me, never should have gone back after the boys were suspended.. My subs are paid till the 5th and I will decide by then if worth it.. but I doubt it..

[DrunkJoeNamath]

Anyone else getting channels with a ton of static?

[magnus420]

shut off my 2 radios this morning. told the service rep that mel is a dirty jew that screwed up the programming.

[MelissaY1]

Has anyone recorded the Virus recently on their Inno and then gone into playback mode and it's separated differently? I guess that is because of the channels changing and the lineup and all that stuff going on? I had backgrounds from like XM Kids in playback mode and then my Inno made a separate section called Comedy after I recorded live 202.

I don't mind some of the channel changes but I can do without the ton of artists stations. Elvis radio pfffft

[mattiew23m]

Has anyone recorded the Virus recently on their Inno and then gone into playback mode and it's separated differently? I guess that is because of the channels changing and the lineup and all that stuff going on? I had backgrounds from like XM Kids in playback mode and then my Inno made a separate section called Comedy after I recorded live 202.

I don't mind some of the channel changes but I can do without the ton of artists stations. Elvis radio pfffft

I know, if you were a big enough elvis fan, wouldn't you own every cd?? Or have a ton of songs on your ipod. Regular radio didn't get it, and now Sirius Xm doesn't get it.. To quote Op "This business just stinks!"

[weeniewawa]

oooo Let's listen to 2 live crew on TBS!!!!!

fuckin assholes

oooo Let's listen to 2 live crew on TBS!!! fuckin assholes

was this really worth posting twice, 2 minutes apart?

talking presidents:rolleyes:

[okterrificsk2]

this merger... (in homer voice) :"this is going great".

Mel s going to turn this into commercial radio w in two years. No ona . no raf. no longform content. censored songs/talk. shitty shallow playlists. almost as many commercials as commercial radio. shitty tech. watch in two years mel will fuck it all.

we have been reaching an end to a golden era for months now.

Ill give it another couple months. I got a PC an ipod and the internets i dont need Sat radio it needs me. The only reason im still a sub is for ona/raf but i can find them online if i had to. Sirius is pushing me away.

[Mindslayer]

Drove home on my lunch break and noticed that just about all of my presets have changed. At first glance it seems like the same formats, though, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Ah, well, at least the Virus is still on 202....for now.

[PlanetBobKelly]

Found this bout an hour ago

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveSatelliteMusic

Won't do much, but it's something.

[badcellphoneguy]

Sorry if I am in the minority but I like the new stations. I have been listening a lot to classic rewind XM 49 and I like it better. I am enjoying Radio Margaritaville and E Street radio.

I am very pleased with the merge.

[MelissaY1]

I know, if you were a big enough elvis fan, wouldn't you own every cd?? Or have a ton of songs on your ipod. Regular radio didn't get it, and now Sirius Xm doesn't get it.. To quote Op "This business just stinks!"

Yeah I mean don't get me wrong, I'm a hardcore fans of many singers/bands, but even the ones I'm obsessive with, I don't want a whole station devoted to them. I don't find that very exciting....

As far as the other stations I'm glad to see they left all the other rock and pop stations I mainly listen to. I'm just gonna be a confused for a bit with some of the number changes and all that but overall no complaints here so far.

[baluku]

I heard from a fired XM program director that part of their job in the last months were to shrink the playlists to 500 songs. That's all Sirius allows for each channel.

That's just plain ol Communism.

[krunk]

so much for thinking the bright side of all this was hearing breuer's show on raw dog.....all 150 is playing is more of the same retread comedy bits

[blee]

Fuck this!
If it wasn't for 202 I would be ready to drop my 3 subs.
Each time I tuned to Ethel's replacement, the fucking DJ was yapping away.
I want XM not Sirius.
Fucking Jew bag motherfucker.

[striker]

FUck you Sirius XM, this blows. Constant channel loading, everytime I change the channel I have to wait for it to load. Twice today it's lost the fucking channel and gone back to XM Preview. Now you've changed other fucking channel programming, I have to change all of my 30 preset's to something new.


Oh yeah, and not all OEM installed units are updating properly. My wife said the unit in her Audi is not updating properly, every channel takes 30 to 45 sec. to load and some are not loading at all.

Someone shoot this fucking dog.


COMMERCIALS??????????? WHAT THE FUCK, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GOD DAMN COMMERCIALS FOR OTHER SIRIUS XM CHANNELS?????????? Tried listening to Prime Country, 3 min 40 sec. commercial break for other Sirius XM channels. Damn it, if I wanted 3 fuckign minutes of commercials I would turn on reg. radio.

Customer service should be called customer shit, put on hold for 35 minutes and then hung up on. Called back, put on hold for 10 minutes and disconnected. Finally on the third try, after 19 minutes on hold I was able to register a complaint.

[Hog's Big Ben]

so much for thinking the bright side of all this was hearing breuer's show on raw dog.....all 150 is playing is more of the same retread comedy bits

Anyone got "real" Sirius and can verify that Breuer is just off today? He's on the Sirius schedule (http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=Channel&cid=1104779630869&s=sched), but not on the XM schedule (http://www.xmradio.com/onxm/channelguide.xmc?ch=150) through next Monday. We don't seem to be getting the Wiseguy show either.

Sirius gets Ronnie B.'s Unmasked, though. That's great for Ron! :clap::clap::clap:

[Pearce]

Breuer's on on Sirius, he's got Vinnie Brand in studio. They're just not putting him on XM for some reason.

[striker]

Oh yeah, and WTF an all Sprignsteen channel, jeezus h. christ, all that's missing is an all G-N-R channel and East Side Dave would be cumming out his ears.


Make it stop, please god make it stop.

[Three Hole Puncher]

COMMERCIALS??????????? WHAT THE FUCK, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GOD DAMN COMMERCIALS FOR OTHER SIRIUS XM CHANNELS?????????? Tried listening to Prime Country, 3 min 40 sec. commercial break for other Sirius XM channels. Damn it, if I wanted 3 fuckign minutes of commercials I would turn on reg. radio.

Fun fact... Melvin said that advertising revenue from the REAL ADVERTISERS accounted for less than 4% of total revenues. So... not only do you get to suffer through advertisments for WHAT YOU ALREADY PAY FOR, you also get beat over the head with boner cream and gooey, smelly dog pus ads in order that Mel can make some chump change.

Fun!

[Hog's Big Ben]

Breuer's on on Sirius, he's got Vinnie Brand in studio. They're just not putting him on XM for some reason.

That's a load of shit. Jim was the only bright spot for me out of this clusterfuck of changes. :mad4:

[Freese]

they got rid of most the stations I listened to. fucking cunts.

[Begbie]

Alright, alright...I heard Nickelback on Alt Nation...I'm getting rid of my radios.

And I think Lithium has the entire Garbage library in their playlist.

[kevtv]

The specific artist channels are a real waste of bandwidth. Get rid of that shit!

Not having an exclusive punk channel is a crime.

Fuck this shit.

[Taintkisser]

OCTANE BLOWS!!!!!! I WANT MY SQUIZZ BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More and more, this "merger" is looking like it was a last gasp effort for Mel and his crew to retain some sort of relevancy in the entertainment world. I now realoze that despite everyone agreeing that neither company would have survived much longer, IMHO XM would have been fine. It was Sirius that was in real trouble, and Mel Karmazi, like a spoiled baby, simply felt it was time for the ol' "if i cant have it then no one can" game. Now both sat radio companies will be gone, along with any mobile(meaning other than a computer) ability to hear SOME NEW FUCKING GODDAM MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! I HAAAAAAAAATE radio, and Sirius version of Satellite radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAME FUCKING SONGS, OVER and OVER!!!!!!
(sorry about this, its been brewing since 5 am and I turned on SQUIZZ--err I eman OCTANE)

[ruckstande]

OCTANE BLOWS!!!!!! I WANT MY SQUIZZ BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More and more, this "merger" is looking like it was a last gasp effort for Mel and his crew to retain some sort of relevancy in the entertainment world. I now realoze that despite everyone agreeing that neither company would have survived much longer, IMHO XM would have been fine. It was Sirius that was in real trouble, and Mel Karmazi, like a spoiled baby, simply felt it was time for the ol' "if i cant have it then no one can" game. Now both sat radio companies will be gone, along with any mobile(meaning other than a computer) ability to hear SOME NEW FUCKING GODDAM MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! I HAAAAAAAAATE radio, and Sirius version of Satellite radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAME FUCKING SONGS, OVER and OVER!!!!!!
(sorry about this, its been brewing since 5 am and I turned on SQUIZZ--err I eman OCTANE)
Its still being programed by the Squizz guys. The name just changed.

[ruckstande]

Oh yeah, and WTF an all Sprignsteen channel, jeezus h. christ, all that's missing is an all G-N-R channel and East Side Dave would be cumming out his ears.


Make it stop, please god make it stop.

No shit, if you turn on your radio and all you tune into is the Led Zeppelin channel, Bruce Springsteen channel, or Grateful Dead channel I hope you die. Seriously, you must be an unappealing human being to deal with and should no longer exist on this earth.

[okterrificsk2]

Fuck this!
If it wasn't for 202 I would be ready to drop my 3 subs.
Each time I tuned to Ethel's replacement, the fucking DJ was yapping away.
I want XM not Sirius.
Fucking Jew bag motherfucker.


Seriously. I heard OnA slurping "cains" balls about how hes the best rock dj. STFU. There shouldnt be a "rock DJ". If im listening to a music channel i want TO HEAR FUCKING MUSIC not some lame ass trying to be cool and funny in between songs. "rock DJ's" add nothing. If they want to talk then start up a talk show. Otherwise press the buttons and keep your mike off and your mouth shut.

Cains the fucking worst of them all.


COMMERCIALS??????????? WHAT THE FUCK, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GOD DAMN COMMERCIALS FOR OTHER SIRIUS XM CHANNELS??????????

Its only going to get worse striker.. Mel's gonna load up on commercials just like regular radio.

[LilJimmyRbinson]

This fucking blows! All my presets got replaced with Sirius channels.

Squizz -> Octane
Lucy -> Lithium
Top Tracks -> Classic Vinyl
Rhyme -> NOTHING!
XMLM -> Thankfully that stayed b/c Hard Attack was fuckin garbage
Flight 26 -> The Pulse

At least we got all-Bruce and all-Dead and all-Elvis. :puke:

How the fuck did Sirius win out? WHen the merger was announced Siri was at $3 and XMSR was selling at like $7. How does a $3 company buy out a $7 one??

Fuck this.

:piss2 Mel Karmazi. :piss

[PlanetBobKelly]

I am presently on hold with these fucks to drop one of my supscriptions....and I'm going on 20 on hold...

The first time I called, the dumb operator said if I wanted old school hip-hop to listen to The Groove....HEY DUMMY! GEORGE BENSON IS NOT HIP-HOP, and it says Old school R&B..

This is complete crap, I hope Mel's nose falls off so he misses out on all the extra free air.

[Falldog]

OCTANE BLOWS!!!!!! I WANT MY SQUIZZ BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More and more, this "merger" is looking like it was a last gasp effort for Mel and his crew to retain some sort of relevancy in the entertainment world. I now realoze that despite everyone agreeing that neither company would have survived much longer, IMHO XM would have been fine. It was Sirius that was in real trouble, and Mel Karmazi, like a spoiled baby, simply felt it was time for the ol' "if i cant have it then no one can" game. Now both sat radio companies will be gone, along with any mobile(meaning other than a computer) ability to hear SOME NEW FUCKING GODDAM MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! I HAAAAAAAAATE radio, and Sirius version of Satellite radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAME FUCKING SONGS, OVER and OVER!!!!!!
(sorry about this, its been brewing since 5 am and I turned on SQUIZZ--err I eman OCTANE)

I was listening today, then all of a sudden some fucking hole comes on and starts babbling about who should play the Super Bowl half time show. I couldn't change the channel faster.

[Debbie1125]

Even the comedy channels have been taken over by Sirius. Raw Dog comedy?

And I know I'm probably the only one on here livid that The Rhyme is gone, but what's the point of two mainstream rap channels and one non-XL channel but no old school station? This makes absolutely no sense.

Fuck this line up....adding the Elvis channel and taking away the old school rap station is racist....there I said it.


I am so disgusted with this. Squizz is gone; The Rhyme is gone. The Elvis and Grateful Dead stations suck...ditto the Springsteen channel. If it were not for the Virus 202, I would cancel. I can get mainstream rap, edited on two stations in Philly. And WTF is with non XL old school rap? It's just not the same without the cursing. Also one of the new stations (Octane or Friction) has a playlist similar to 104.5.

[Hydrosludge]

What the fuck is action sports music?


That is the only XL Rock channel they have. There goes at least one of my subs to an Ipod.

[LilJimmyRbinson]

What the fuck is action sports music?


That is the only XL Rock channel they have. There goes at least one of my subs to an Ipod.

XMLM is XL still, and I haven't listened much today, but are you saying Squizz is now censored?

[CMMatt]

This blows. :(

Not only has my favorite rock stations been replaced, but the one glimmer of hope I had (Breuer Unleashed) wasn't even fucking on. The only reason at this point to keep SATRAD is for uncensored O&A and R&F. Everything else is basically terrestrial radio. Censored music, commercials inbetween and horrible DJs trying to be hip and fresh.

I didn't have Direct TV, but I understood the importance of it. Same goes for Paltalk, even though some if not most people here hate it. I'm sure that will be gone next. And finally, the last thing to be axed will be CBS. I'm almost certain that Mel or some suit had told them to not "end" the CBS side so that the show sounds like CBS doesn't even exist.

I'm still putting hope out there that something turns around for the better, but if something happens to the bbboys and the buddays, then I won't even think twice about spending 40 minutes on hold for a human being to cancel my accounts.

[Hydrosludge]

OCTANE BLOWS!!!!!! I WANT MY SQUIZZ BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More and more, this "merger" is looking like it was a last gasp effort for Mel and his crew to retain some sort of relevancy in the entertainment world. I now realoze that despite everyone agreeing that neither company would have survived much longer, IMHO XM would have been fine. It was Sirius that was in real trouble, and Mel Karmazi, like a spoiled baby, simply felt it was time for the ol' "if i cant have it then no one can" game. Now both sat radio companies will be gone, along with any mobile(meaning other than a computer) ability to hear SOME NEW FUCKING GODDAM MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! I HAAAAAAAAATE radio, and Sirius version of Satellite radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAME FUCKING SONGS, OVER and OVER!!!!!!
(sorry about this, its been brewing since 5 am and I turned on SQUIZZ--err I eman OCTANE)



Octane sucks ass. It is Non XL. fuck mel and howey

[LilJimmyRbinson]

Octane sucks ass. It is Non XL. fuck mel and howey

I saw on his myspace that Bodhi is still programming director for channel 48. I don't have myspace so I couldn't email him through there, but I we should all contact Bodhi about this non xl shit. I feel like we'll at least get a response from him one way or the other. Does anyone have his email? Think squizz@xmradio.com still works?

[al885]

Havent listened to the show in months since I actually have more important things to do then sit around for 4+ hours at a time.

[FloridaDave]

........This isn't what I'm used to.... I don't like this..... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

Seriously, this new Channel lineup sucks.

I blame E-Lo. The whole place went to shit ever since he left.

[mrfarstucker]

I saw on his myspace that Bodhi is still programming director for channel 48. I don't have myspace so I couldn't email him through there, but I we should all contact Bodhi about this non xl shit. I feel like we'll at least get a response from him one way or the other.I think I read somewhere that Squizz dropped the XL recently, but was still uncensored. I'm pretty sure Ethel was also non-XL, but it seemed to be uncensored. Maybe the new channels will continue to be uncensored. I know the new Offspring song was uncensored on new-Ethel this morning.

[nneptune]

the new channels and logos suck ass...
i bought XM , not stupid fuckin' Sirius

[Begbie]

What does Op call it...disc jockeys hitting the post? Talking over song intros?

Yeah, I've heard it repeatedly tonight. I recorded an old Depeche Mode song played on 44...the beginning of it is some DJ talking about some cunt in Maryland that sent him an e-mail.

Fuck this shit.

[Falldog]

I think I read somewhere that Squizz dropped the XL recently, but was still uncensored. I'm pretty sure Ethel was also non-XL, but it seemed to be uncensored. Maybe the new channels will continue to be uncensored. I know the new Offspring song was uncensored on new-Ethel this morning.


They've been playing it uncensored for a while.

I'm not sure whether I should cancel or wait it out. Every time I hear a dj I feel like putting my heel through the radio.

[Begbie]

Holy shit! Don McLean "American Pie" long version playing on Classic Vinyl! I can't remember one occasion hearing this on Top Tracks...I wanna fuckin drive a spike into my head!

"I started singing...bye, bye, Miss American Pie...drove my Chevy to the levee..."

DID YA?! ARGH!!!

And now Carol Miller!!!!! I'm so fuckin annoyed.

[my_liver_aches]

Said before by others... stupid move sirius ! xm HAD some really good content.
I miss 65 (XL old school rap) and had this from on eof their dj's last week :



" This is Dennis Blaze reaching out to yall. As you know, there was a merge between XM and Sirius satellite radio. Because of this, many shows (including mine - Backyard Boogie) will have to be cut. Next week's show will be the last one (Monday, November 10th, 7pm PST)

You're getting this email because at one point, you sent me an email giving me love for the old school west coast show. I appreciate all the emails I got... and I believe I did respond to those in a timely manner.

I'm not sure if it's gonna work, but I'm hoping that it will.

Pls send an email to the people listed below telling them that you're an XM subscriber and that you listen to Backyard Boogie on XM channel 65. Tell them that's there's no other show in the lineup that plays the old school west coast tracks. Tell them where you're from and include your name. Request that the show NOT to be terminated.

I love doing the old school west coast show and I hope that you like listening to it. I'd love to continue to do the shows, but I'm gonna need your help convincing the powers that be. By the way, in case you're wondering... this gig is NOT paid. I never did this west coast show for the money. It's all for the love of it!!!

Send your emails to:

Dion Summers
Program Director for XM Urban Channels
dion.summers@xmradio.com

and

Kory Bartholomew
Kory.Bartholomew@xmradio.com

Pls copy me on your email to them. Thanks for all your support. Feel free to call or email if you have any questions.

Dennis Blaze
Backyard Boogie Show
blaze1200@gmail.com
858 504 0213 "


I was bummed that his show was gone... but the whole fucking channel ? yecch.

[Beeman99]

looking over the new channels on both, I'm thinking I'm going to cancel my Sirius and get the Sirius package on my XM units. Although, my MyFi hasn't picked up the new shit yet

[SaintDude]

I'm about to cancel. Fuck these douchebags in their collective douche-holes.

I download and listen to O&A but I've been more than happy to pay my sub to XM because on weekends and after show hours I listen to several stations which are now gone as we all know.

Here's what I want to know. Are there viable alternatives to these stations. I do mean viable btw, not some garbage passing for what we used to get.

The System
Lucy
Fred
Ethel
Squizz
Audio Visions

I'll probably call them up tomorrow and just cancel. I'd rather pay other assholes like Audible to get O&A and spit in Sirius' collective faces over this shit. Way to keep the product intact you fucking cunt weasels.

Can ya tell I'm a bit heated over this shit? PEH-TUEY. :mad4::fu:

[Begbie]

I swear I've heard Doors "Riders..." at least 3-4 times today on Classic Vinyl.

[Mother Shucker]

How many "God" radio stations could one listen to?

[SaintDude]

How many "God" radio stations could one listen to?

One is too many. :icon_conf

[Beeman99]

I'm still trying to figure out what all the hate is about? I'm happy that I only need XM, not Sirius anymore.

[SaintDude]

I'm still trying to figure out what all the hate is about? I'm happy that I only need XM, not Sirius anymore.

They took away the stations that I've listened to for the last couple of years? Other than the O&A everything else is gone. Zero warning on any of this either by the way. I got an email from XM today AFTER all the channel changes were done. Was really nice getting into my car to tune into The System and I get some bullshit talk radio stuff. I hate talk radio except for the b-b-boys.

As a listener this is all we've had to contend with with the merger bullshit. I can't imagine what the guys have been having to deal with behind the scenes. Ugh ...

[Beeman99]

They took away the stations that I've listened to for the last couple of years? Other than the O&A everything else is gone. Zero warning on any of this either by the way. I got an email from XM today AFTER all the channel changes were done. Was really nice getting into my car to tune into The System and I get some bullshit talk radio stuff. I hate talk radio except for the b-b-boys.

As a listener this is all we've had to contend with with the merger bullshit. I can't imagine what the guys have been having to deal with behind the scenes. Ugh ...

from what I can see, they just changed the names of most of the stations, some stations from XM replaced Sirius stations, some from Sirius replaced XM stations, I'm happy, too bad others aren't

[SaintDude]

from what I can see, they just changed the names of most of the stations, some stations from XM replaced Sirius stations, some from Sirius replaced XM stations, I'm happy, too bad others aren't

IF that's the case I might cut them a tiny bit of slack. That said if they just rename some of the stuff it might have been a bit prudent to, ya know, tell us about it ahead of time instead of pissing off a lot of the XM customer base. I can promise you that a majority of people out there turned on their radios in the last day or two and were not happy. Regardless, some of the stations I did listen to are probably gone and I'm seriously reconsidering keeping my radio now.

[iSpeakEloquent]

ok here are the xm channels that went over to sirius for those of you that think sirius took over the whole thing:

new channels for sirius
40s on 4
90s on 9 (they didn't have a 90s channel?)
the loft
willie's place
enLighten
BB King's Bluesville
Escape
Cinemagic (starts 1/1/09)
Mad Dog Radio
Sporting News Radio
Sirius XM Book Radio

XM channels replacing/merging with sirius channels
starlite becomes The Blend
sirius love becomes Sirius XM Love (creative)
Sirius Gold becomes 50s on 5
60 Vibrations becomes 60s on 6
Totally 70s becomes 70s on 7
Big '80s becomes 80s on 8
The Vault becomes Deep Tracks
Buzzsaw becomes DA BONEYARD (returns 1/15/09, when ac/dc goes away)
Left of center becomes Sirius XM U
Hard Attack becomes Liquid Metal
Chill becomes Sirius XM Chill
The Beat becomes BPM
Area 38 becomes Area
Boombox becomes Pop2k
Hot Jamz becomes The Heat
New Country becomes The Highway
Spirit becomes The Message
Jazz Cafe becomes Watercolors
Pure Jazz becomes Real Jazz
Broadway's Best becomes On Broadway
Sirius Pops becomes Sirius XM Pops
Rumbon becomes Caliente
Reggae Rhythms becomes The Joint
Sirius Stars becomes Sirius XM Stars
Laugh Break becomes Laugh USA
Indie Talk becomes POTUS
Specialty becomes Specials
Kids Stuff becomes Kids Place Live

they also have a section on their site that say if u liked a certain station that is gone now you might like...

for punk they say check out Faction

_______
ok now the sirius channels that went over to us xmers

12-Outlaw Country
18-Elvis Radio
27-The Bridge
29-BBC Radio One
51-The Coffeehouse
52-Faction
55-Radio Mararitaville
56-Jam ON
57-The Grateful Dead
58-E Street Radio
59-Underground Garage
66-Shade 45
41-Hair Nation
117-Catholic Channel
119-Doctor Radio
134-NPR Now
135-World Radio Network
144-Mad Dog Radio
148-Blue Collar Radio
149-The Foxxhole
162-Cosmo Radio
231-239-NBA Play by play

Sirius Channels replacing/merging with XM channels
10-America becomes The Roadhouse
17-US Country becomes Prime Country
23-The Heart becomes Sirius XM Love
26-Flight 26 becomes The Pulse
30-XM Hitlist becomes Pop 2k
33-Spirit becomes Praise
44-Fred becomes 1st Wave
45-XM Cafe becomes The Spectrum
46-Top Tracks becomes Classic Vinyl
47-Ethel becomes Alt Nation
48-Squizz becomes Octane
49-Big Tracks becomes Classic Rewind
54-Lucy becomes Lithium
60-Soul Street becomes Soul Town (get it? its bigger)
62-Suite 62 becomes Heart & Soul
67-The City becomes Hip-Hop Nation
72-Audiovisions becomes Spa
73-High Standards becomes Siriusly Sinatra (shouldn't it be called Siriusly XM Sinatra?)
78-XM Classics becomes Symphony Hall
79-VOX becomes Metropolitan Opera Radio
80-The Move becomes Area
116-XM Kids becomes Kids Place Live
120-XM Live becomes Specials
150-XM Comedy becomes Raw Dog (the description is awful, the best of richard pryor, george carlin and dane cook....wtf)
155-Take Five becomes Sirius XM Stars
163-Sonic Theater becomes Sirius XM Book Radio
247-XM Emergency Alert becomes Sirius XM Weather & Emergency

39 to 49 (only counting nba as 1 channel) is hardly 95%
i know the playlists are a whole different story but im happy to see lithium and the fact that boneyard will be back.

[Cum_Son]

Alright Alt. Nation is playing Kottonmouth Kings. I'm all about this merge now haha. And First Wave is better than Fred IMO whoever asked about it.

[iSpeakEloquent]

here is what they suggest for those of you who lost your favorites

XMX (2)-check out Deep Tracks (40) & Roadhouse (10)
X-Country (12) check out Outlaw Country (12)
Fungus (53) check out Faction (52)
Rhyme (65) check out Hip-Hop Nation (67)
Raw (66) check out Shade 45 (66)
Beyond Jazz (72) check out Watercolors (71) & Real Jazz (70)
Fine Tuning (76) check out The Loft (50) & Deep Tracks (40)
The System (82) check out Area (80) & The System on XMRO
Chrome (83) check out 70s on 7 (7)
Viva (91) & Aguila (92) & Caricia (93) check out Caliente (85)
XM Sports Nation (2) check out Mad Dog (144) & XM Sports Guide (143) & ACC (190)
The Weather Channel (125) check out Sirius XM Weather (247) & Instant Traffic & Weather (210-230)
E! (162) check out Cosmo Radio (162) & Sirius XM Stars (155)

[Beeman99]

IF that's the case I might cut them a tiny bit of slack. That said if they just rename some of the stuff it might have been a bit prudent to, ya know, tell us about it ahead of time instead of pissing off a lot of the XM customer base. I can promise you that a majority of people out there turned on their radios in the last day or two and were not happy. Regardless, some of the stations I did listen to are probably gone and I'm seriously reconsidering keeping my radio now.

just go to both XM's and Sirius's website, dl the new channel guides, and go from there. It's not a big change.

[WOWmagnet]

Havent listened to the show in months since I actually have more important things to do then sit around for 4+ hours at a time.

Yeah 'cause we all just sit around, doing nothing while we listen. :icon_roll

[LilJimmyRbinson]

Said before by others... stupid move sirius ! xm HAD some really good content.
I miss 65 (XL old school rap) and had this from on eof their dj's last week :



" This is Dennis Blaze reaching out to yall. As you know, there was a merge between XM and Sirius satellite radio. Because of this, many shows (including mine - Backyard Boogie) will have to be cut. Next week's show will be the last one (Monday, November 10th, 7pm PST)

You're getting this email because at one point, you sent me an email giving me love for the old school west coast show. I appreciate all the emails I got... and I believe I did respond to those in a timely manner.

I'm not sure if it's gonna work, but I'm hoping that it will.

Pls send an email to the people listed below telling them that you're an XM subscriber and that you listen to Backyard Boogie on XM channel 65. Tell them that's there's no other show in the lineup that plays the old school west coast tracks. Tell them where you're from and include your name. Request that the show NOT to be terminated.

I love doing the old school west coast show and I hope that you like listening to it. I'd love to continue to do the shows, but I'm gonna need your help convincing the powers that be. By the way, in case you're wondering... this gig is NOT paid. I never did this west coast show for the money. It's all for the love of it!!!

Send your emails to:

Dion Summers
Program Director for XM Urban Channels
dion.summers@xmradio.com

and

Kory Bartholomew
Kory.Bartholomew@xmradio.com

Pls copy me on your email to them. Thanks for all your support. Feel free to call or email if you have any questions.

Dennis Blaze
Backyard Boogie Show
blaze1200@gmail.com
858 504 0213 "


I was bummed that his show was gone... but the whole fucking channel ? yecch.

Done. Thanks for those emails. We'll see if I get a response.

I also sent one to squizz@xmradio which was Bodhi's email as of, well yesterday.

[Phi Mu Alpha]

How many "God" radio stations could one listen to?

One is too many. :icon_conf

My parents could listen to them all. The Catholic channel on Saturdays (during college football season) broadcasts all of the Notre Dame games

[lick]

I am down to one sub only keeping me is 202. I can not believe that somebody thinks fucking raw dog is better than xm comedy channel. I liked squizz and ethel as well hated Octane when I had sirius in a new car. Its funny how all XM units can sighn up for best of sirius but so few sirius units can get best of xm.

[FellowTraveler]

XMLM is XL still, and I haven't listened much today, but are you saying Squizz is now censored?

I turn on XMLM for the first time this morning and fucking Korn is on, followed by something that an emo asshole would consider metal. XM is fucking dead. The boys are the only thing holding me to the service now.

[LilJimmyRbinson]

I am down to one sub only keeping me is 202. I can not believe that somebody thinks fucking raw dog is better than xm comedy channel. I liked squizz and ethel as well hated Octane when I had sirius in a new car. Its funny how all XM units can sighn up for best of sirius but so few sirius units can get best of xm.

Because Mel could give a shit about XM and its subscribers. No more competition so they can slack off and fuck up our stations to save a buck.

[PlanetBobKelly]

My lovely hole found this on another forum, it might work for other channels obviously:

Everybody who's pissed that The Rhyme is gone, email these people. If they hear enough complaining, they might realize they made a mistake:

Here are some addresses that may help:

tsabean@siriusradio.com
sgreenstein@siriusradio.com
mkarmazin@siriusradio.com
jmeyer@siriusradio.com
dfrear@siriusradio.com
pdonnelly@siriusradio.com

[mightydh]

My lovely hole found this on another forum, it might work for other channels obviously:

Everybody who's pissed that The Rhyme is gone, email these people. If they hear enough complaining, they might realize they made a mistake:

Here are some addresses that may help:

tsabean@siriusradio.com
sgreenstein@siriusradio.com
mkarmazin@siriusradio.com
jmeyer@siriusradio.com
dfrear@siriusradio.com
pdonnelly@siriusradio.com

Thanks for the find. I've done some EECB work in the past, and have every intention of doing it now.

Btw, canceled 4 subs and kept 1. The music quality has also gone downhill. On a good system it sounds anywhere between AM and FM radio.

[vndwnbytheriver]

Everyone who is angry about the channel changes....If you want your voice really heard, call corporate XM at 202-380-4000 and ask for Sirius XM CEO, Mel Karmazin. Let him feel your anger and demand change to this horrible decision!

Leave him a Voicemail, if he doesent answer.

[SaintDude]

Everyone who is angry about the channel changes....If you want your voice really heard, call corporate XM at 202-380-4000 and ask for Sirius XM CEO, Mel Karmazin. Let him feel your anger and demand change to this horrible decision!

Leave him a Voicemail, if he doesent answer.

I highly doubt Mel gives a shit with all the other problems he's having at the moment. That said I left him a civil, yet annoyed, voice mail.

Oh here's a personal itch over this crap. XM 82 "The System" is still up .. but it's online only. Fucks sake just put it back god damnit. :(

[LilJimmyRbinson]

I highly doubt Mel gives a shit with all the other problems he's having at the moment. That said I left him a civil, yet annoyed, voice mail.

Oh here's a personal itch over this crap. XM 82 "The System" is still up .. but it's online only. Fucks sake just put it back god damnit. :(

That reminds me. They got rid of "On the Rocks" from both the units and online. Fuckin lounge music is great for parties and background at work yet somehow 24/7 guitar tuning...er Grateful Dead channel is important enough to warrant bandwidth.

[TheCableNazi]

Liquid Metal sucks shit now. I already miss Ward Cleaver.

[Budyzir]

So, I updated all my presets and gave it over 24 hours, my final opinion; this sucks balls!

My presets includes some of the decade channels and most of the rock channels. Since yesterday morning there been multiple times where I heard the same song across multiple channels. The rest of the time it seems like the music is generic like pop for a particular genre. There is nothing that I'm hearing that makes me think "wow, I haven't heard that in a while." It's regular old terrestrial radio now.

As may have wrote in earlier posts O&A and R&F are the only two shows keeping me sat radio.

I'm now going to go look for my MP3 player and update it.

[rvrctyshrk]

And I know I'm probably the only one on here livid that The Rhyme is gone, but what's the point of two mainstream rap channels and one non-XL channel but no old school station? This makes absolutely no sense.

No, you're not the only one. That was a great channel.

[XMScott]

here is what they suggest for those of you who lost your favorites

XMX (2)-check out Deep Tracks (40) & Roadhouse (10)
X-Country (12) check out Outlaw Country (12)

Rhyme (65) check out Hip-Hop Nation (67)

Beyond Jazz (72) check out Watercolors (71) & Real Jazz (70)
Fine Tuning (76) check out The Loft (50) & Deep Tracks (40)


NO! There is no classic rap station at all. And Hip Hop Nation is censored.
Outlaw Country is an abomination compared to what XCountry has been in the past. They play fucking classic rock on Outlaw and the DJ's blow.
Beyond Jazz..... a niche and awesome channel, can not be found on those other channels.
Fine Tuning was also niche and was not replaced.

Those channels were in my presets. Now i just have 202 and NFL Network. And lately i can do without one of those............

This totally sucks

[MayrMeninoCrash]

I'm still trying to figure out what all the hate is about? I'm happy that I only need XM, not Sirius anymore.

The number 1 problem so far is the goddamn DJ's thinking they need to talk in between every other song. SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. No one gives a shit what you think, if we wanted deejays, we'd listen to Clearchannel's terrestrial bullshit. Play the fucking music.

The number 2 problem is that it is clear that Sirius' playlist is WAAAAAY less than XM's. I listened to Hair Nation yesterday on and off for a total of maybe 2 hours. I heard FIVE GODDAMN QUEENSRYCHE SONGS!!! Seriously, a whole genre of music and they can't mix it up a bit????? I know Anthony was trying to spin this as a positive, but I'd gladly take the few deep B-sides on Boneyard now and then so that it doesn't seem like I have my 50-song Ipod plugged in and set to shuffle.

Yeah I'm pissed and whining, but fuck this shit. I am seriously looking at other options like streaming audio to replace my satellite stuff.

[ruckstande]

I don't give a fuck, if this starts sucking anymore I'm going to cancel and start downloading their shows. Where is the fucking honesty here. I just read that they played Cold Play on Chill. Cold Kay? Are you serious? Absolute horseshit.

[Aaron Burrito]

NO! There is no classic rap station at all. And Hip Hop Nation is censored.
Outlaw Country is an abomination compared to what XCountry has been in the past. They play fucking classic rock on Outlaw and the DJ's blow.
Beyond Jazz..... a niche and awesome channel, can not be found on those other channels.
Fine Tuning was also niche and was not replaced.

Those channels were in my presets. Now i just have 202 and NFL Network. And lately i can do without one of those............

This totally sucks

For some reason Hip Hop Nation is listed as a XL channel but it's definitely censored.

http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/channel_guide.pdf

[ceeps04]

For some reason Hip Hop Nation is listed as a XL channel but it's definitely censored.

http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/channel_guide.pdf


Miss the Rhyme. And Hip Hop Nation is definitely censored despite the xL tag it gets on my radio in its name. I heard Ruff Ryders "what y'all niggas want" and niggas was just a record scratch like it was 2001 and I was listening to FM. That's not even a fucking cuss word!!

The only positive out of the channel lineup is that Shade 45 is better than Raw was.

[TheCableNazi]

Seriously (Siriusly) considering dropping my sub at this point, and just downloading O&A and R&F. They were the only reason I got the sub to begin with, but I obviously grew to enjoy other XM programming. If they're just gonna take it away, why should they still get my business?

Audible.com, here I come. (for as long as THAT lasts...)

[BlindWes]

Im sure this belongs in that other channels forum but whatever!

XCountry - Cary Hudson - God Dont Never Change

39 minutes till one of the best channels on satellite radio leaves to be replaced by the shit that is Sirius.
Yep...A sad time indeed. "Outlaw Country" is no replacement, and Sirius-XM should be ashamed. Write to Jon Zellner at jon.zellner@xmradio.com, or the head of country programming, Jon Anthony at jon.anthony@xmradio.com.

As for Squizz, now Octane, thankfully Grant Random was kept. Notice the lower sound quality on the music channels now that the line-up has been merged though...Hair Nation sounds like it's coming from under water, and the repitition is pretty evident. Tuned in during one of O&A's commercial breaks this morning (right around 7:00 AM here on the West coast), and flipped by again around 9:00 PM and both times they were playing the same Motley Crue song, "Looks that Kill". Boneyard was never quite that repetitive.

[Aaron Burrito]

Miss the Rhyme. And Hip Hop Nation is definitely censored despite the xL tag it gets on my radio in its name. I heard Ruff Ryders "what y'all niggas want" and niggas was just a record scratch like it was 2001 and I was listening to FM. That's not even a fucking cuss word!!

The only positive out of the channel lineup is that Shade 45 is better than Raw was.

No fucking way it is. I was listening to it last night and they played censored songs and a shit ton of R&B. You would never hear that on RAW. I was so pissed that I was actually yelling at my radio.

[PlanetBobKelly]

Hip-Hop Nation's supposed to bx XL? They played Scarface and Tupac's "Smile" and it was fucking edited!!!!

Mother fucking jew, you're clear channeling this shit.....

[moldycheeze]

I just tried to add the Best of XM to my VW which had a sirius unit that I never activated. Since the music channels are pretty much the same now and so I can un-clutter my dashboard. I went through the whole process and then they said that the best of XM was not available on this radio. I guess I have to wait until they really slash the channels and hope O and A are still around before I can take the stupid MyFi off the dash. But then again If they ever get cut I will be a Ipod guy i guess.

[ceeps04]

No fucking way it is. I was listening to it last night and they played censored songs and a shit ton of R&B. You would never hear that on RAW. I was so pissed that I was actually yelling at my radio.

Haven't heard that yet but if thats the case then I will admit I am wrong as there is no way in hell its better than Raw. But that abortion that is Hip Hop Nation is a censored piece of shit. WHAT THE FUCK!!!

[Three Hole Puncher]

Haven't heard that yet but if thats the case then I will admit I am wrong as there is no way in hell its better than Raw. But that abortion that is Hip Hop Nation is a censored piece of shit. WHAT THE FUCK!!!

"Censored Hip Hop."

Holy fuck... that's basically an oxymoron... a contradiction in terms. Great way to bring in the young blood, the future of SiriusXM subscribers... censor the hip hop.

Mel = FAIL.

[ReallyRacist]

This sucks so bad! The Rhyme and Raw were my favorite channels besides the Virus. Does anybody know if Miss Kitty and Leo G. from Raw were fired?

I don't understand why they wouldn't replace the Sirius channels with our XM channels. It's painfully obvious that the XM channels were better.

As for Eminem's channel, I have flipped to it 6 times since Thursday morning and 4 out of 6 times there has been an Eminem song or a D12 song. I don't have this service to listen to Eminem all the time.

Also this morning I realized that my recorded songs on my Inno have been deleted. Has anyone else had this happen?

And this whole Directtv fiasco just sucks!

[PlanetBobKelly]

Question: If you cancelled your subscription and don’t care anymore, would you mail your player to dirty Mel’s house with a “nice” note?

[LilJimmyRbinson]

Saw this post over at xm411.com and it sums up my feelings perfectly.

The truth is, this merger could have gone pretty smoothly without anywhere near the amount of dissatisfaction if they would not have seen fit to COMPLETELY homogenize the lineups. The whole point of two satellite radio services was that people got a choice. Just because you do a merger doesn't mean you automatically take that away.

They should have given the XM people the good stuff from Sirius, like Margaritaville, but where there were channels that really weren't very similar, like X Country and Outlaw, they should have maintained what they had, maybe kept 10 or so channels unique to each service.

The fact that seems to get lost here is that XM had many more listeners to its music channels. Sirius not only had fewer subscribers, but a lot of its listening went to Howard Stern.

If it were not true that XM's listeners got the shaft here, I don't think you'd see this level of displeasure. Sirius listeners aren't unhappy - why should they be, as they're still getting what they signed up for, plus a few bonuses that moved over from XM. People say, oh, this is a merger so that's what happens. Wrong. Employees lose out in a merger, but customers normally don't. We're the revenue base - the reason they're in business. You don't screw up the product that more than half of your customers prefer.

It's painfully obvious that Mel thinks of XM subs as second rate, probably because we by proxy don't want Howard.

[Cum_Son]

I found the Verge as it was kicked from my presets. For some reason it was put in the Latin/World section. Channel 87.

[okterrificsk2]

the new company pitch:

"Sirius sat radio , where you can listen to censored music and talk content, a shrinking variety of music channels, Annoying Rock DJ's that try to be funny, a limited playlist, and more and more commercials. You know kinda like Commercial radio only you have to pay for this one."

game over man game over . We are nearing the end of something that used to be special. Good thing for me we live in a world of choice. A world where i can choose torrents, internet, dvr, winamp, video on my phone, and MP3 players. Ive canceled 3 of my 4 subs already and im just holding on to 1 to support OnA/RaF but the moment one of those shows are gone(it will be within 12 months) im shit canning the last sub.

[PlanetBobKelly]

According to my lovely hole who scoured some XM forums, the powers that be don't care and aren't listening to the complaints.....screw you mel.

[Beeman99]

The number 1 problem so far is the goddamn DJ's thinking they need to talk in between every other song. SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. No one gives a shit what you think, if we wanted deejays, we'd listen to Clearchannel's terrestrial bullshit. Play the fucking music.

The number 2 problem is that it is clear that Sirius' playlist is WAAAAAY less than XM's. I listened to Hair Nation yesterday on and off for a total of maybe 2 hours. I heard FIVE GODDAMN QUEENSRYCHE SONGS!!! Seriously, a whole genre of music and they can't mix it up a bit????? I know Anthony was trying to spin this as a positive, but I'd gladly take the few deep B-sides on Boneyard now and then so that it doesn't seem like I have my 50-song Ipod plugged in and set to shuffle.

Yeah I'm pissed and whining, but fuck this shit. I am seriously looking at other options like streaming audio to replace my satellite stuff.

They took away some of the channels I liked, but with what they replaced them with works fine with me. I'm not bothered by this at all, and I guess I'm the only here that isn't

[vndwnbytheriver]

the new company pitch:

"Sirius sat radio , where you can listen to censored music and talk content, a shrinking variety of music channels, Annoying Rock DJ's that try to be funny, a limited playlist, and more and more commercials. You know kinda like Commercial radio only you have to pay for this one."

game over man game over . We are nearing the end of something that used to be special. Good thing for me we live in a world of choice. A world where i can choose torrents, internet, dvr, winamp, video on my phone, and MP3 players. Ive canceled 3 of my 4 subs already and im just holding on to 1 to support OnA/RaF but the moment one of those shows are gone(it will be within 12 months) im shit canning the last sub.

I would really have to agree, I am getting ready to sell my Inno, and go buy a slacker G2 and sub to audible

[LordJezo]

I noticed today that the new Squizz, Octane, is not an XL channel. I haven't listened to it too much but how does it compare?

[Beeman99]

I noticed today that the new Squizz, Octane, is not an XL channel. I haven't listened to it too much but how does it compare?

I listened a bit today, and didn't hear any beeps, but I wasn't paying that close of attention to it

[d0uche_n0zzle]

According to my lovely hole who scoured some XM forums, the powers that be don't care and aren't listening to the complaints.....screw you mel.

Melvin is a conniving, CUNT. He DESTROYED FM radio, and it looks like he's about to DESTROY SAT radio too.

Two for two, you CUNT. :mad4:

[MayrMeninoCrash]

Saw this post over at xm411.com and it sums up my feelings perfectly.

The truth is, this merger could have gone pretty smoothly without anywhere near the amount of dissatisfaction if they would not have seen fit to COMPLETELY homogenize the lineups. The whole point of two satellite radio services was that people got a choice. Just because you do a merger doesn't mean you automatically take that away.

They should have given the XM people the good stuff from Sirius, like Margaritaville, but where there were channels that really weren't very similar, like X Country and Outlaw, they should have maintained what they had, maybe kept 10 or so channels unique to each service.

The fact that seems to get lost here is that XM had many more listeners to its music channels. Sirius not only had fewer subscribers, but a lot of its listening went to Howard Stern.

If it were not true that XM's listeners got the shaft here, I don't think you'd see this level of displeasure. Sirius listeners aren't unhappy - why should they be, as they're still getting what they signed up for, plus a few bonuses that moved over from XM. People say, oh, this is a merger so that's what happens. Wrong. Employees lose out in a merger, but customers normally don't. We're the revenue base - the reason they're in business. You don't screw up the product that more than half of your customers prefer.

It's painfully obvious that Mel thinks of XM subs as second rate, probably because we by proxy don't want Howard.

I think this is very true (except for the fellating Howard part). Mel and co. should have looked at WHY people originally chose XM over Sirius. Despite how he wants to spin it (Howard vs O & A) (NFL vs MLB) a great many subscribers compared the music selections and made their choices based on that. Even without O & A I would've chosen XM over Sirius because their channels are not programmed like some fake terrestrial shit. XM was like listening to the cool guy on the block's ipod. Sirius is like FM lite.....too small a playlist, and too much DJ prattle. Thankfully Sirius didn't throw a car commercial in every 5 minutes, but with Mel, it's coming. Mel may not respond to emails or phone calls, but I definitely think he'll notice when millions of subscribers decide not to fund his little "experiment" and move on to other audio mediums.

[LordJezo]

I did notice a whole lot more talking on Alt Nation when compared to Ethel. Only listened for a little while during 202 breaks but it was a bit scary. Is it always this way?

My first thought was "wow, this is going to blow for parties" I would put on XM in my place during parties and the music would be pretty constant. Now if there are DJs all the time it will break the flow and I will just go back to internet radio or basic playlists in Winamp.

[Three Hole Puncher]

Check out the form letter that's circulating around on the interbutts:

To: KJMWEB@fcc.gov, Michael.Copps@fcc.gov, Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov, dtaylortateweb@fcc.gov, Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov, antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov, letters@washpost.com, national@washpost.com

Commisioners Martin, Copps, Adelstein, Tate, McDowell, and Department of Justice,

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio certified before the merger that customers would not lose choices of channels. That certification was part of the conditions that allowed the merger. They lied. As of November 12, They have eliminated many of the channels that have no counterpart (i.e. Fine Tuning, Boombox, Chrome). Instead we get payola-esque single-artist channels. And, as far as diversity is concered, 75% of the Spanish-language channels were dropped, a clear act in bad faith regarding their promise to maintain diversity. As a result of the merger, consumer choice has been markedly decreased. As a result of the lost channels, the net per-channel cost has risen. The FCC and DOJ should investigate the merged company to insist that they adhere to the conditions of the merger and restore the channels that were eliminated by the merger.

Pissed off employees being fired in droves. Pissed off stockholders filing lawsuits. Pissed off subscribers calling for FCC investigations...

Mel, the time has come for you to step up and do the right thing...

:killme:

[LordJezo]

Woo. I copied that right into my gmail and sent it off.

[iSpeakEloquent]

They took away some of the channels I liked, but with what they replaced them with works fine with me. I'm not bothered by this at all, and I guess I'm the only here that isn't

i haven't had a problem yet either, i might at some point when the boneyard comes back, hopefully it'll come back as being better then what it was but we'll see. I like how when things don't go people's way they abandon ship immediately instead of fighting for what you want. Can we at least make an attempt?

[d0uche_n0zzle]

Check out the form letter that's circulating around on the interbutts:



Pissed off employees being fired in droves. Pissed off stockholders filing lawsuits. Pissed off subscribers calling for FCC investigations...

Mel, the time has come for you to step up and do the right thing...

:killme:

:jump

[Budyzir]

Check out the form letter that's circulating around on the interbutts:



Pissed off employees being fired in droves. Pissed off stockholders filing lawsuits. Pissed off subscribers calling for FCC investigations...

Mel, the time has come for you to step up and do the right thing...

:killme:


The best use of an action smiley ever!

Today, after surfing through all my presets, I actually turned off my SkyFi and checked out some FM stations. Didn't notice a difference.

[Ballbuster1]

My answer to this whole debacle:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412PHJJPDSL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
Great player. Get to listen to what I want, when I want.

[ruckstande]

My answer to this whole debacle:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412PHJJPDSL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
Great player. Get to listen to what I want, when I want.
60GB player is awesome.

[Hog's Big Ben]

Check out the form letter that's circulating around on the interbutts:

To: KJMWEB@fcc.gov, Michael.Copps@fcc.gov, Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov, dtaylortateweb@fcc.gov, Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov, antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov, letters@washpost.com, national@washpost.com

Commisioners Martin, Copps, Adelstein, Tate, McDowell, and Department of Justice,

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio certified before the merger that customers would not lose choices of channels. That certification was part of the conditions that allowed the merger. They lied. As of November 12, They have eliminated many of the channels that have no counterpart (i.e. Fine Tuning, Boombox, Chrome). Instead we get payola-esque single-artist channels. And, as far as diversity is concered, 75% of the Spanish-language channels were dropped, a clear act in bad faith regarding their promise to maintain diversity. As a result of the merger, consumer choice has been markedly decreased. As a result of the lost channels, the net per-channel cost has risen. The FCC and DOJ should investigate the merged company to insist that they adhere to the conditions of the merger and restore the channels that were eliminated by the merger.

Pissed off employees being fired in droves. Pissed off stockholders filing lawsuits. Pissed off subscribers calling for FCC investigations...

Mel, the time has come for you to step up and do the right thing...

:killme:


Don't forget the new radios that allow a la carte channel selection. That's never going to happen now because the channel lineups are pretty much the same. So that's two other things they lied about: interoperable radios for XM subscribers (Sirius has one) and a la carte programming choices for us.

And they really need to stop with the shitty one-artist channels. Or at least quit pretending that it's nothing more than a few greased palms between the Sirius XM suits and the suits at the record label of whoever has a new album coming out. I was actually looking forward to the AC/DC channel but I've yet to hear any of the "exclusive" content. The first three times I tuned in I heard Highway To Hell. :mad4:

[iSpeakEloquent]

My answer to this whole debacle:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412PHJJPDSL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
Great player. Get to listen to what I want, when I want.

does it play new stuff that you never heard before?

[Debbie1125]

The number 1 problem so far is the goddamn DJ's thinking they need to talk in between every other song. SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. No one gives a shit what you think, if we wanted deejays, we'd listen to Clearchannel's terrestrial bullshit. Play the fucking music.

I agree. I hate the stupid DJs even more than the channel changes. I do not need to know the name of the artist or song.....it's on the damned display. I'm paying $12.95 a month and I DO NOT want to hear someone yakking away.

With reference to Hip Hop Nation being comparable to The Rhyme, it doesn't even come close. Too much talking on there too. I am seriously thinking of ditching XM/Sirius. I already get O&A and Ron & Fez from Audible, and I can hear non-stop music on my MP3.

[Hog's Big Ben]

the new company pitch:

"Sirius sat radio , where you can listen to censored music and talk content, a shrinking variety of music channels, Annoying Rock DJ's that try to be funny, a limited playlist, and more and more commercials. You know kinda like Commercial radio only you have to pay for this one."


Take this (http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/sirius-censorship.asp) for what it's worth, since I saw it on a no-name blog:

According to my source, he is a daily listener of Alt-Nation Sirius 21 and all of a sudden swear words, vulgarity, etc. was "bleeped out". He points out that Sprint and Sirius just partnered up to offer satellite radio over the phones. Apparently, Sprint didn't like the explicit lingo and had Sirius censor their own channels despite their subscribers. He also confirmed it by talking with Sirius's customer service.

The blogger then claims his "source" received this e-mail from Sirius:

Thank you for writing us here at SIRIUS. We appreciate your comments about our censored music channels on SIRIUS. Due to our new partnership with Sprint, some of our music programming lineup will now be offering censored music. These channels include:

-Faction // Channel 28

-Alt Nation // Channel 21

-First Wave // Channel 22

-Hot Jamz // Channel 50

SIRIUS remains fully dedicated to providing an unparalleled variety of music programming on our 65 commercial free music channels in virtually every genre. Our channels are designed to please subscribers of every listening preference.

The wording sounds dodgy (I don't think Sirius would use the phrase "censored music channels", among other things), but who knows...

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

I did notice a whole lot more talking on Alt Nation when compared to Ethel. Only listened for a little while during 202 breaks but it was a bit scary. Is it always this way?

My first thought was "wow, this is going to blow for parties" I would put on XM in my place during parties and the music would be pretty constant. Now if there are DJs all the time it will break the flow and I will just go back to internet radio or basic playlists in Winamp.

I was at a bar last night, and they had on (I think) Alt Nation. Some cunt was not only yakking, but going on and on about shit nobody cares about. I could live with the artist and title being read, maybe a very little info about the song or album....it's not ideal, but it wouldn't be the end of my world.

But this bitch wouldn't shut up. It got so irritating to everyone that the bartender eventually ended up firing up the DJing equipment there and put on a playlist off of a laptop.

[jackjack]

I had a Sirius sub three years ago along with my XM. Had both for about six months.
Sirius DJs were quite tolerable, they talked maybe a minute every five or 6 songs, and they'd throw a fuck or two in every once in a while. They mostly talked about things pertinent to the set that was going to air.

I take it things have changed.

[Beeman99]

I noticed today that the new Squizz, Octane, is not an XL channel. I haven't listened to it too much but how does it compare?

Take this (http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/sirius-censorship.asp) for what it's worth, since I saw it on a no-name blog:



The blogger then claims his "source" received this e-mail from Sirius:



The wording sounds dodgy (I don't think Sirius would use the phrase "censored music channels", among other things), but who knows...


if that's all that's censored, than big woop. Everyone should quit whining.

And if they are censoring, then how is N1gger Babble still on?

[goreds2]

LUCY and X COUNTRY will be missed.

Voice opinions here if needed. (Thanks LovesMusic)

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveSatelliteMusic



tsabean@siriusradio.com
sgreenstein@siriusradio.com
mkarmazin@siriusradio.com
jmeyer@siriusradio.com
dfrear@siriusradio.com
pdonnelly@siriusradio.com

[Taintkisser]

Its still being programed by the Squizz guys. The name just changed.
Great...but why the fuck is it not XL???????? I don't need to pay for radio if its going to be just like free radio...........ugh!!!! If it wasn't for the boys I would have canceled all three units the moment the companies merged****uhh XM was taken over I mean.......
Still don't get how a company that was worse off, can take over the one that was actually doing better

[Aaron Burrito]

This sucks so bad! The Rhyme and Raw were my favorite channels besides the Virus. Does anybody know if Miss Kitty and Leo G. from Raw were fired?

I don't understand why they wouldn't replace the Sirius channels with our XM channels. It's painfully obvious that the XM channels were better.

As for Eminem's channel, I have flipped to it 6 times since Thursday morning and 4 out of 6 times there has been an Eminem song or a D12 song. I don't have this service to listen to Eminem all the time.

Also this morning I realized that my recorded songs on my Inno have been deleted. Has anyone else had this happen?

And this whole Directtv fiasco just sucks!


Leo G is on hip hop nation from 12-6 weekdays. It's a censored channels and therefore sucks.

[Aaron Burrito]

Here is some good news. This is an email response posted on xmfan.

Hip Hop Nation will not continue to be censored, as we will be
fixing this issue. While Backspin was retired from our programming,
fans can tune in a daily Old Skool Rap show on Hip Hop Nation Ch. 40.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience these changes may have
caused you. SIRIUS understands that our customers are passionate about
the programming they want to hear, that is why we appreciate the
feedback! We continually rely on customer feedback like yours to
enhance your entertainment experience, and are happy to forward your
comments and suggestions to our programming department for further
consideration. SIRIUS is always striving to bring you the music and
content that you want to hear.

[mattiew23m]

Just fyi for people that enjoyed the boneyard, and eddie trunks show. He has a version of the show on fridays on regular radio 11pm - 2am http://q1043.com/pages/onair/eddietrunk.html For those that were fans of his show, and want to tune in before jan

[Debbie1125]

Check out some of these posts, especially the one from Mr. UNCO07. This paragraph in particular pissed me off.

ALSO, he did say they did some "research" and they found that nearly 90% of their subscribers have children and didn't want their children hearing the uncensored music.

http://siriusbuzz.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6266

If this is true and it's the old "we have to protect the children" BS, than I am definitely cancelling. Why can't these dumb parents use the channel blocking feature?

[mattiew23m]

If everything eventually becomes censored, there is no point to have Xm anymore. I thought the reason to have it, was for uncensored commercial free content.

[Taintkisser]

if everything eventually becomes censored, there is no point to have xm anymore. I thought the reason to have it, was for uncensored commercial free content.
x2

Kind of like how cable tv was supposed to be too, but look how that turned out.......at least there we get our uncensored(sort of) movies and such

[mattiew23m]

x2

Kind of like how cable tv was supposed to be too, but look how that turned out.......at least there we get our uncensored(sort of) movies and such

Cable gets away with so much more. On regular cable channels i have heard tons of material that would never ever pass on krock. Then take a look at HBO, SHOWTIME, and others. There are words and things that are said, that wouldn't even make it onto xm. I don't get why radio is this BIG DEAL when it comes to using words. Again, as Opie would say "This business just stinks"
You know its a problem when girls can't be naked in a studio, and no one listening can see if they are really naked or not. I would love for them to try the bit. Where they pretend to have a girl in studio get naked, but she really is not naked. Just to see them freak out, and dump out.

Even a funnier bit would to throw a good porn sound into the mix, and they would run into the studio and freak. Wait? is there anyone still working anywhere haha

[kwikwe]

Am I ever going to get O&A on DirecTv again?

[Budyzir]

Check out some of these posts, especially the one from Mr. UNCO07. This paragraph in particular pissed me off.

ALSO, he did say they did some "research" and they found that nearly 90% of their subscribers have children and didn't want their children hearing the uncensored music.

http://siriusbuzz.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6266

If this is true and it's the old "we have to protect the children" BS, than I am definitely cancelling. Why can't these dumb parents use the channel blocking feature?

There is a fucking option of locking out the the adult content!!!!!!

Be a fucking adult and make a call to XM to lock it out.

Stupid and lazy fucking people

[goat999]

I don't think the Virus will ever see DirecTv, again. Mel's too much of a hard ass. I feel your pain, though. It's really fuckin inconvenient.

[Debbie1125]

There is a fucking option of locking out the the adult content!!!!!!

Be a fucking adult and make a call to XM to lock it out.

Stupid and lazy fucking people

The thing that I am concerned about is if music channels are being censored because of "the children", how much longer will it be before the complaints start about the language on shows like O&A, R&F and even Howard Stern, and the call to do something about it.

Lazy parents who don't want to take the responsibility are a big problem with things like this. TV has the V chip; inappropriate internet sites can also be blocked. But rather than do their job of parenting, the idiots ruin it for the rest of us adults. What harm can hearing a few curse words do anyway? I'm sure alot of the kiddies hear plenty of that at home

[d0uche_n0zzle]

I don't think the Virus will ever see DirecTv, again. Mel's too much of a hard ass. I feel your pain, though. It's really fuckin inconvenient.


Melvin is walking on very thin ice, IMO.

If he manges to piss off the OnA hardcore base, he's playing with FIRE which will burn his dumb greedy ass. :war3_hum:

[Budyzir]

This is interesting;

http://forums.slacker.com/xm-defections-to-slacker-t1534.html

[jackjack]

I've played with the free version of the slacker online service for a year or so, it works just fine for my music needs at home.

[oandapartycock]

Orbitcast nailed them over the switch as well. Are you listening Mel?!? Way to waste money on your call centers being bombarded and bad PR by not at LEAST sending out a mass email a week or so before.

Confusion: Sirius XM fumbles channel switchover
By Ryan Saghir on November 14, 2008 12:04 PM | 78 Comments | No TrackBacks

Sirius and XM Merger

There's no doubt that things must be pretty hectic over at Sirius XM Radio Inc., but Wednesday's channel switchover was wrought with confusion and miscommunication, and I'm amazed the company even let this happen.

If I was management, I would be fuming right now. Heads would be rolling.

The fact is, a small percentage of the nearly 20 million subscribers read Orbitcast. But we were the only ones who knew the channel switchover was coming.

I received an email notification of the new Sirius XM channel lineup on the day of the switchover. But for a majority of subscribers, that was one day too late. Heck, it was one week too late.

Sure, there was some on-air discussion about the switchover, but that's assuming that everyone was listening. A mighty big assumption. Just like it's a big assumption that your subscribers will check their personal emails before jumping in the cars to go to work on Wednesday.

The result? Confusion.

Countless subscribers turned on the radio for the first time only to learn that their presets were messed up. Confused customers turned the dial only to find that the service they were used to (and paying for) is completely different now. Confusion leads to dissatisfaction - not exactly the end result the company was aiming for.

This is Satellite Radio. This isn't Internet Radio. The communications with the customer shouldn't be relegated to an email and a homepage update.

The least the company could have done was to send out a mailer a week ahead of time. A simple direct mail piece notifying that there will be a major restructuring of channels. It didn't need to be specific (though, that would be nice), but at least the channel changes wouldn't have been a surprise.

"But Ryan, budgets are tight, and a mailer to millions of subscribers costs money!"

True, but call center calls cost money too. Forrester Research estimates that a customer call for service to a call center costs an average of $5.50 per call. If one post gets 400+ comments on this subject, something tells me that there was a large increase in activity to the call centers as well. For every unhappy customer who calls, there's hundreds more who don't bother, but are equally unhappy.

The bottom line:
Sirius XM Radio have two revenue-generating "clients" - the subscriber, and the advertiser. If the company was going to do a major overhaul to the ad sales system, I'm sure they would have notified each and every advertiser well ahead of time. I'm sure every advertiser would be aware of a change occuring, even if they didn't know the full details.

The same logic - and respect - should apply to subscribers.

[kidohio]

if O and A leave im canceling 2 subs and going to a ipod

[DonTheTrucker]

I don't see a whole lot of difference between the new and old music channels. And when the Bone Yard comes back, we'll have 3 metal channels.

[MayrMeninoCrash]

Does anyone remember the original deal proposed to the FCC that the new combined company would be offering INTEROPERABLE radios for the two playlists? Obviously with the elimination of half the channels that is no longer in the cards. Too bad no one from the FCC can hold these fuckers feet to the fire and force them to carry through with their promises.

[iSpeakEloquent]

I don't see a whole lot of difference between the new and old music channels. And when the Bone Yard comes back, we'll have 3 metal channels.

true, i agree

i haven't listened a lot since the switch but what i have heard i liked, i like putting on the classic alternative channel and actual hear a classic instead of something is just old and never heard before. XM was too deep, Sirius was too shallow, hopefully there is some sort of medium here but im sure im asking for too much.

oh and 3 metal channels will rock, hopefully the boneyard goes in a direction like lithium where they play more of the grunge era alternative stuff. Hopefully boneyard will play heavier, non hair metal

[goreds2]

Does anyone remember the original deal proposed to the FCC that the new combined company would be offering INTEROPERABLE radios for the two playlists? Obviously with the elimination of half the channels that is no longer in the cards.

Yes, I have a feeling that will NOT be a hot ticket item now.

[Beeman99]

keep whining faggots. Jesus fuck, OnA are still on, R&F are still on, you now get Bruer, the music is fine, the talk is fine, and you have the option of getting all the sports. STFU and either pay it and get used to the change, or cancel and dl the show and say fuck Sat Radio. It's like listening to a bunch of 90 year old cunts in this thread.

"This isn't what I'm used to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

die

[d0uche_n0zzle]

That would a perfectly fine attitude if I wasn't PAYING FOR IT, CUNT. :mad4:

[Beeman99]

I'm waiting for the video of some faggot to show up burning his XM unit, and watch the hilarity ensue

[Three Hole Puncher]

keep whining faggots. Jesus fuck, OnA are still on, R&F are still on, you now get Bruer, the music is fine, the talk is fine, and you have the option of getting all the sports. STFU and either pay it and get used to the change, or cancel and dl the show and say fuck Sat Radio. It's like listening to a bunch of 90 year old cunts in this thread.

"This isn't what I'm used to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

die

Mel? Is that you?

This is a perfect example of the Hoo Hoo zombie attitude. Anybody who complains about Howie's part-time schedule or his constant plugging of his wife's charity scam gets a... "Your gay and faggit! If you don't like it then cancel your subscription and don't listen!"

The obvious response to this being... "Hello! Exactly!"

SiriusXM's current situation is such that they should be down on their knees blowing their paying customers. The LAST thing they should be doing is giving their subs ANY reason, trivial or otherwise, to be dissatisfied with their service.

If enough of us "90 year old cunts" decide to take your advice and say fuck you to sat radio, then YOU won't have OnA, R&F, Bruer, or music("fine" or otherwise), and then it'll be "This isn't what I'm used to!" time for you.

[Beeman99]

Mel? Is that you?

This is a perfect example of the Hoo Hoo zombie attitude. Anybody who complains about Howie's part-time schedule or his constant plugging of his wife's charity scam gets a... "Your gay and faggit! If you don't like it then cancel your subscription and don't listen!"

The obvious response to this being... "Hello! Exactly!"

SiriusXM's current situation is such that they should be down on their kness blowing their paying customers. The LAST thing they should be doing is giving their subs ANY reason, trivial or otherwise, to be dissatisfied with their service.

If enough of us "90 year old cunts" decide to take your advice and say fuck you to sat radio, then YOU won't have OnA, R&F, Bruer, or music("fine" or otherwise), and then it'll be "This isn't what I'm used to!" time for you.


I haven't heard any of this supposed Howard shit on either platform you speak of, and I've had XM for 5 years and Sirius for 2, so I'm guessing you are talking out of your ass.

Most people that have subs won't care about the changes, will they be annoyed, sure, but they will just find where the channels are now and move on and be happy with it. I pay for 7 subs, 4 of which are for family, and every one of them was a little annoyed, but they found new channels that they like and moved on. Pretty sure most others would be as well. It's just the hate on for Mel (I agree, he's a cunt) that really brought this forward. Would the hate be here if it would've been E-lo doing this? I doubt it.

And as for your rambling threat of if enough people take my advice and cancel I won't get the boys, any of my sports, any of my music, etc etc, so be it, life goes on. But I hardly doubt that the 20 or so whining cunts here about this will make much difference to XM, and even if they lost a half million subs over this (which they won't), it won't cause them to die, there are other things that are working against Sat radio that are far greater than a minimal amount of lost subs due to some programming changes.

But it's ok, stay on your soapbox. It humorous reading the waterhead rants about this shit. The lineup changes have been good all in all, and for the few shit or niche channels that were lost, only the Mel haters seem to care.

[MayrMeninoCrash]

You would be surprised at the amount of outrage over this move. For a lot of people that subscribe, they have found it's no longer worth paying for to get censored music and to have many of their favorite channels removed or watered down. As I pointed out, we were supposed to be offered INTEROPERABLE radios, which, while not directly saying it, definitely implied we would continue to receive programming from both sides. Now that particular promise to the FCC is quite moot.

Hopefully Mel has factored in a decent amount of churn to his viability calculations, and Three Hole Puncher nailed it perfectly, that enough of us whiny cunts do cancel, guess what? There won't be a satellite company left for anybody to listen to.

[Beeman99]

You would be surprised at the amount of outrage over this move. For a lot of people that subscribe, they have found it's no longer worth paying for to get censored music and to have many of their favorite channels removed or watered down. As I pointed out, we were supposed to be offered INTEROPERABLE radios, which, while not directly saying it, definitely implied we would continue to receive programming from both sides. Now that particular promise to the FCC is quite moot.

Hopefully Mel has factored in a decent amount of churn to his viability calculations, and Three Hole Puncher nailed it perfectly, that enough of us whiny cunts do cancel, guess what? There won't be a satellite company left for anybody to listen to.

Would I, really? You can't go on what some posters say on XM411, here, orbitcast, etc, as there are what, 20 some million subs between the two platforms, and over 90% of those subs are just the general consumer that won't cancel over this. If they cancel, it'd be due more to the economy than it is to some channel movement. And the more I look around, it looks to be the people the consistently whine about anything just to be heard that are making the noise, and nothing will happen due to those people whining.

I saw the new censored channel list, and so what. Yes, censorship sucks, but it seems to be the trend and it's not going to change.

[Three Hole Puncher]

I haven't heard any of this supposed Howard shit on either platform you speak of, and I've had XM for 5 years and Sirius for 2, so I'm guessing you are talking out of your ass.

What "Howard shit" are you talking about? Howard's part-time schedule? His wife's scam charity? The complainers?

Most people that have subs won't care about the changes, will they be annoyed, sure, but they will just find where the channels are now and move on and be happy with it. I pay for 7 subs, 4 of which are for family, and every one of them was a little annoyed, but they found new channels that they like and moved on. Pretty sure most others would be as well.

Okay... how about the people who haven't subsrcibed yet? SiriusXM is going to live or die(and it's looking more and more like die)by their new subs, and since SiriusXM has apparently frozen their advertising budget, they're going to be relying on the word of mouth of their current subs to "spread the word" during the holday shopping season. Now... which would you guess would give a better recommendation, a satisfied customer, or person who's "a little annoyed" with their service?

It's just the hate on for Mel (I agree, he's a cunt) that really brought this forward. Would the hate be here if it would've been E-lo doing this? I doubt it.

Yeah... that's it. It's just Mel hate. :icon_roll Only people who have heard of Melvin Karmazi are upset with the changes, right? If they don't know Mel, then they don't care about the changes, right?

Sir... that's utter malarky.

And as for your rambling threat of if enough people take my advice and cancel I won't get the boys, any of my sports, any of my music, etc etc, so be it, life goes on. But I hardly doubt that the 20 or so whining cunts here about this will make much difference to XM, and even if they lost a half million subs over this (which they won't), it won't cause them to die, there are other things that are working against Sat radio that are far greater than a minimal amount of lost subs due to some programming changes.

Yep... 20 whining cunts. That's all.

Dude, wake the fuck up. The story is being reported in national newspapers:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-sun-phil-rosenthal-16nov16,0,1422644.column

But it's ok, stay on your soapbox. It humorous reading the waterhead rants about this shit. The lineup changes have been good all in all, and for the few shit or niche channels that were lost, only the Mel haters seem to care.

Yep just Mel hate. The new lineup is fabulous, and everybody loves it except a handful of Mel haters.

The 100+ comments here were left by a few Mel haters, right?

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/11/xm-radio-sirius.html

Malarky, sir. You spout utter malarky.

[MayrMeninoCrash]

Here's a couple more places if you don't believe that this is a lot more widespread than you want to believe

Fark thread 369 responses - http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4019285

Consumerist thread with comments - http://consumerist.com/5087231/sirus-xm-merger-reveals-true-face-fewer-channels-and-sanitized-programming

Numerous anecdotes of disgruntled people....many who have tried to call to cancel and have had trouble getting through to operators, and others who have relayed conversations that the operators have been cancelling accounts all day.

[vndwnbytheriver]

20 million subs? how many are sitting on new dealers lots? What about all of the dual subs, that no longer need the dual sub(just an xm with best of sir). This company is a sinking ship. Hope they how to swim.

[virus33]

Ohhh there has to be an outrage cause no one ever cries on the internet EVER...

Seriously get over it no one gives a shit in a month all these dopes whining will get over it.

[jpc165]

Its fucking bullshit that we received no warning about how severe this immediate change was gonna be. We have every right to be pissed off. We are paying for this shit fucknuts.

[d0uche_n0zzle]

We have every right to be pissed off. We are paying for this shit fucknuts.


Hello, exactly.

[Aaron Burrito]

keep whining faggots. Jesus fuck, OnA are still on, R&F are still on, you now get Bruer, the music is fine, the talk is fine, and you have the option of getting all the sports. STFU and either pay it and get used to the change, or cancel and dl the show and say fuck Sat Radio. It's like listening to a bunch of 90 year old cunts in this thread.

"This isn't what I'm used to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

die

And what channel can I hear Bruer on? Oh that's right, his show isn't being broadcast on XM.

[Three Hole Puncher]

Ohhh there has to be an outrage cause no one ever cries on the internet EVER...

Seriously get over it no one gives a shit in a month all these dopes whining will get over it. Just because you enjoy the feel of Mel's moyle-clipped cock in your ass doesn't mean everybody else should just grab their ankles and take it like a man.

[DowntownDave]

While I agree that turning XM into Sirius II totally fucked up a good service, there is really not a lot of sense in stressing over it. Satellite radio is doomed.

With the iPod and other personal music players being available, everyone can listen to what they want when they want it. The only thing any kind of broadcast platform has going for it is live real-time content, e.g. news, sports and talk.

With Wi-Fi becoming ubiquitous and WiMax looming on the horizon, satellite technology is rapidly becoming outdated. You can access literally thousands of channels of either streaming or "podcast" content in the internet. Phones, PDA's even specialized Internet radio receivers have the ability to receive this content and are already in the hands of millions of consumers. So, as accessibility increases, who is going to want to buy a special platform as well as docks, antennas and other peripheral junk? Then pay an extra fee? To get smaller amount of more generic content? And only be able to listen to it outside of a building unless it is hardwired?

You can't tell me Mel does not see this coming. I think the old Jew saw what was coming on commerical and bailed to satellite as a last chance to line his pockets before he retires to his love nest with Hoohoo. He is an old man with outdated ideas who really does not give a fuck about subscribers or, for that matter, anything but his bank account. He will drain satellite radio dry and then leave it dead.

[Hog's Big Ben]

keep whining faggots. Jesus fuck, OnA are still on, R&F are still on, you now get Bruer


No, we don't get Breuer. XM subs can't even fucking pay extra for Breuer, that's how much of a cunt Mel is. They are now programming two different Raw Dog channels, one for us without Breuer and the Wop Guys Talking About Nothing, and one for Sirius with those shows.

[d0uche_n0zzle]

The only way The Jew learns is to take away all that they covet, MONEY.

Churn baby, CHURN!

When canceling your sub, tell them Melvin the CUNT is responsible.

[goreds2]

Petition to agrue the elimination of XM54 LUCY.

http://www.petitiononline.com/keeplucy/petition.html

LUCY currenly has only 90 where X Country has over 1500 signatures.

http://www.petitiononline.com/BBXM12/petition.html

[oandapartycock]

It's just the hate on for Mel (I agree, he's a cunt) that really brought this forward. Would the hate be here if it would've been E-lo doing this? I doubt it.

E-Lo is a smart, smart man. He gave his ticket on this Titanic away a long time ago.

But I hardly doubt that the 20 or so whining cunts here about this will make much difference to XM

The 20 or so whining cunts HERE are the main reason (besides E-Lo) of why you're still able to still listen to O&A and R&F after their suspension in the fallout of Homeless Charlie.

[ruckstande]

I don't think I'd have a problem canceling if shit goes further down hill. I have plenty of places to download the shows if they get fucked with. These new lineups sound a lot like the shit radio they have in Philly.

[jpc165]

So, as accessibility increases, who is going to want to buy a special platform as well as docks, antennas and other peripheral junk? Then pay an extra fee? To get smaller amount of more generic content? And only be able to listen to it outside of a building unless it is hardwired?


Lets see. Anyone who drives to work every fucking morning and/or has to travel across the shit zones of states where no regular radio/wifi is available.

[kidohio]

i may just switch to just talk channels i cant listen to the music anymore

[Debbie1125]

I don't think I'd have a problem canceling if shit goes further down hill. I have plenty of places to download the shows if they get fucked with. These new lineups sound a lot like the shit radio they have in Philly.

No problem cancelling here either. I'll wait a little bit before cancelling to see if there's an improvement. I don't think people on here are whining. It's justified. You're paying for uncensored content then Mel and his asswipes change things around. No emails to subscribers.......nothing. I'm just glad that I decided to wait and not replace my old XM Nexus with one of the latest portables.

[iSpeakEloquent]

No, we don't get Breuer. XM subs can't even fucking pay extra for Breuer, that's how much of a cunt Mel is. They are now programming two different Raw Dog channels, one for us without Breuer and the Wop Guys Talking About Nothing, and one for Sirius with those shows.

good, ill gladly not have breuer if it means that show will never accidentally come through my speakers.

The 20 or so whining cunts HERE are the main reason (besides E-Lo) of why you're still able to still listen to O&A and R&F after their suspension in the fallout of Homeless Charlie.

except the difference here is "we don't like mel the jew so i'm taking my ball and playing elsewhere." the suspension thing we all banded together as a unit and had a plan, it was more then just crying and cancelling. I went to a fuckin rally on the coldest day in may ever.

[MayrMeninoCrash]

except the difference here is "we don't like mel the jew so i'm taking my ball and playing elsewhere." the suspension thing we all banded together as a unit and had a plan, it was more then just crying and cancelling. I went to a fuckin rally on the coldest day in may ever.

You're deluded dude........this has nothing to do with "liking Mel the Jew". It has to do with a merger of two companies and what we were promised, versus what is being delivered. If you think that you are still getting your money's worth for your newly blessed Sirius radio then OK, Terrific. A lot of us here in the thread think the changes are bullshit and hoping that Sirius wakes up before enough subscribers jump ship causing the whole sat radio business to swirl the drain and disappear. And that is no good for any of us here.

[Beeman99]

What "Howard shit" are you talking about? Howard's part-time schedule? His wife's scam charity? The complainers?



Okay... how about the people who haven't subsrcibed yet? SiriusXM is going to live or die(and it's looking more and more like die)by their new subs, and since SiriusXM has apparently frozen their advertising budget, they're going to be relying on the word of mouth of their current subs to "spread the word" during the holday shopping season. Now... which would you guess would give a better recommendation, a satisfied customer, or person who's "a little annoyed" with their service?



Yeah... that's it. It's just Mel hate. :icon_roll Only people who have heard of Melvin Karmazi are upset with the changes, right? If they don't know Mel, then they don't care about the changes, right?

Sir... that's utter malarky.



Yep... 20 whining cunts. That's all.

Dude, wake the fuck up. The story is being reported in national newspapers:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-sun-phil-rosenthal-16nov16,0,1422644.column



Yep just Mel hate. The new lineup is fabulous, and everybody loves it except a handful of Mel haters.

The 100+ comments here were left by a few Mel haters, right?

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/11/xm-radio-sirius.html

Malarky, sir. You spout utter malarky.


wow, you posted an irrelevant article. Good for you. And sure, there are 100 comments here that are bashing the change, but it's by all of around 20 posters you dumbass.

Again, if you honestly think the consumer anger over this lineup change (which again, I like, and 90% of subs won't blink at) will cause sat radio to fail, you are sadly mistaken. The fact that the Auto industry is hurting, the economy is shit, and Sirius/XM is breaking things that were written into the merger (which is a federal government issue, not a consumer issue), is what will make or break the platform. Again, all that got taken away is some shit channels or some channels only a few listened to, and sure, that may just be the beginning, but who knows. But you all write your letters, send the cock pics, it won't help your cause this time dummies.

I'm sure glad that I have more to do with my life than bitch and whine over a pay service that if I didn't like anymore, I could simply call and cancel. Get a fucking brain people.

[iSpeakEloquent]

You're deluded dude........this has nothing to do with "liking Mel the Jew". It has to do with a merger of two companies and what we were promised, versus what is being delivered. If you think that you are still getting your money's worth for your newly blessed Sirius radio then OK, Terrific. A lot of us here in the thread think the changes are bullshit and hoping that Sirius wakes up before enough subscribers jump ship causing the whole sat radio business to swirl the drain and disappear. And that is no good for any of us here.

the point of what i was saying is that its not like when the bboys were suspended and everyone banded together to get them not fired. Instead its just a bunch of guys saying they are going to cancel. When the suspension happened we tied up customer service, set up rallies, got on tv and newspapers (i for one was in the daily news). This time it seems everyone here is just rolling over and going oh well ill take my ball and trade it in for an ipod.

I for one, haven't had a problem yet with the changes, im not a country or a rap fan. I like metal, by january there will be 3 metal channels. This is more then there was before so it actually got better. We'll see what happens with the playlists but i haven't had a problem yet. I don't how that is deluded but sure whatever you want to say to get yourself to feel better.

[iSpeakEloquent]

but who knows.

exactly, a lot of the things people are bitching about could be a mistake for all you know. I read somewhere that one of the hip-hop stations that lost its xl was a mistake and it will return, ive also heard that some of the other channels that lost it was only temporary. Whats with this "this is different now, bye goodbye goodbye goodbye" attitude. I'll give it at least a chance.

as long as i got the virus, nhl, mlb, now nfl, and 3 metal channels, im fine.

[mattiew23m]

I have been listening to hair nation, in replace of my favorite station the boneyard. It does have good tunes. (If you are into that sorta music) I was really loving in for the first two hours. After that, it was the same song, and the same bands right after another. They don't really dig deep enough. With the boneyard, they would have songs that I have never heard before, and would like. Which I would then download. I am feeling really uneasy about everything lately.. I am still holding a sub because of O&A.. As long as they are on sirius xm, I am going to stick with it... I do download the show, but I pay.. I only download because I can't listen at work anymore.. I would listen at night, but I have things to do.. And, I hate hearing little parts of the show, and missing out on some good material. I may consider audible, because atleast its supporting the show.

[okterrificsk2]

keep whining faggots. Jesus fuck, OnA are still on, R&F are still on, you now get Bruer, the music is fine, the talk is fine, and you have the option of getting all the sports. STFU and either pay it and get used to the change, or cancel and dl the show and say fuck Sat Radio. It's like listening to a bunch of 90 year old cunts in this thread.

"This isn't what I'm used to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

die


beeman Shut the fuck up. Dude not everyones a mindless ONA/RAF zombie. Not everyones one and only interest in life is ONA/RAF. Some people like music and a wide variety of it. And when things start to lean towards the bland commercial radio way we start getting pissed. Again STFU. If you dont want to hear people bitching about how xm has changed maybe you shouldnt be entering a thread called "last night of xm how we knew it".

Now go back to listening to Fridays OnA show for your 6th time and when ur done with that go listen to Krock b/c obv you dont care about music, shitty playlists, or the fact that a service that we pay for is getting worse by the day.

"This isn't what I'm used to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

die


Really? Do you not see a difference? and lol telling people to die...CLASSIC.

[Philly_Tyrant]

Anyone know if they are off Direct TV or was their channel just moved?

[Sct Ptersns Twn]

Anyone know if they are off Direct TV or was their channel just moved?


off, done, over, jewed.

[Ballbuster1]

My wife still has a Myfi in her car. She won't get rid of because O&A are still on it.
She's not happy with the new stations and if O&A go, so does the subscription.
Mel blew it big time in both the way this was handled and the content of the new stations.

[kwikwe]

Will O&A ever return to DirecTv? Why did they move them in the first place if they are still on satellite?

[Beeman99]

beeman Shut the fuck up. Dude not everyones a mindless ONA/RAF zombie. Not everyones one and only interest in life is ONA/RAF. Some people like music and a wide variety of it. And when things start to lean towards the bland commercial radio way we start getting pissed. Again STFU. If you dont want to hear people bitching about how xm has changed maybe you shouldnt be entering a thread called "last night of xm how we knew it".

Now go back to listening to Fridays OnA show for your 6th time and when ur done with that go listen to Krock b/c obv you dont care about music, shitty playlists, or the fact that a service that we pay for is getting worse by the day.




Really? Do you not see a difference? and lol telling people to die...CLASSIC.


you really don't know me very well dummy. I hardly listen to the show as I don't have the time to commit 6 hours to it daily. Since the suspension my listening time to the show has all but vanished. It's not a reflection of the quality of the show, it's just a reflection of having other shit to do.

And there are still what, 60 music channels on the platform? If you can't find something else on there to replace your beloved Lucy or whatever the fuck you listened to, then you should drown yourself.

It's a pay service you stupid fuck, and you have your right to complain. But you also have the option of canceling it, and nothing you say, as stupid as it is, will change it. We get it, "YOU" saved the show by doing the same thing. Well guess what dumbass, this isn't the fucking same. This is the way it is, nothing will change it, and either get used to it, for cancel your sub and dl the show like a lot of other people do.

[Three Hole Puncher]

you really don't know me very well dummy. I hardly listen to the show as I don't have the time to commit 6 hours to it daily. Since the suspension my listening time to the show has all but vanished. It's not a reflection of the quality of the show, it's just a reflection of having other shit to do.

And there are still what, 60 music channels on the platform? If you can't find something else on there to replace your beloved Lucy or whatever the fuck you listened to, then you should drown yourself.

It's a pay service you stupid fuck, and you have your right to complain. But you also have the option of canceling it, and nothing you say, as stupid as it is, will change it. We get it, "YOU" saved the show by doing the same thing. Well guess what dumbass, this isn't the fucking same. This is the way it is, nothing will change it, and either get used to it, for cancel your sub and dl the show like a lot of other people do.

Translation: I don't care about XM's service because I rarely ever listen. Paying subscribers who do listen, and who do care about the quality of XM's product, have the right to complain, but they're whiney cunts if they do.

Does that pretty much sum it up?

[Beeman99]

Translation: I don't care about XM's service because I rarely ever listen. Paying subscribers who do listen, and who do care about the quality of XM's product, have the right to complain, but they're whiney cunts if they do.

Does that pretty much sum it up?

Nope. I listen to both my Sirius and XM daily, and while some of the changes weren't great, but I'm happy with both my services. And now with these changes, I can cancel my Sirius and keep XM. But again, I didn't listen to Lucy, X Country, etc. Just because I don't listen to the show daily doesn't mean I don't listen to my radios daily.

[Three Hole Puncher]

Nope. I listen to both my Sirius and XM daily, and while some of the changes weren't great, but I'm happy with both my services. And now with these changes, I can cancel my Sirius and keep XM. But again, I didn't listen to Lucy, X Country, etc. Just because I don't listen to the show daily doesn't mean I don't listen to my radios daily.

You admit that you weren't happy with some of the changes, and you also admit that you're not very passionate about the music... you're satisified with music that is merely "fine".

Is it really worth getting angry with people who aren't as easily amused as you seem to be? This is what you reserve your passion for? Ranting and raving at those who aren't as accepting of mediocrity as yourself?

[Beeman99]

You admit that you weren't happy with some of the changes, and you also admit that you're not very passionate about the music... you're satisified with music that is merely "fine".

Is it really worth getting angry with people who aren't as easily amused as you seem to be? This is what you reserve your passion for? Ranting and raving at those who aren't as accepting of mediocrity as yourself?

wow, way to read into it. Where did I say I wasn't passionate about music? I said the channels they took away were shit to me, and the ones they changed I'm happy with now as most of them I listened to over on Sirius anyways. The channels that people are bitching about being gone were niche channels stupid, they weren't big channels. And some of them will be back in Jan, so deal with it.

I don't accept mediocrity, but I also don't whine and bitch like a school girl when a PAY service changes in a way I don't like. You have the option to cancel it, get an Ipod, and dl the shit you want. You sound like that sort of fella that's always telling the institution to go screw, you rebel you.

[virus33]

wah wah wah buy a ipod grandpas

[Three Hole Puncher]

wow, way to read into it. Where did I say I wasn't passionate about music? I said the channels they took away were shit to me, and the ones they changed I'm happy with now as most of them I listened to over on Sirius anyways. The channels that people are bitching about being gone were niche channels stupid, they weren't big channels. And some of them will be back in Jan, so deal with it.

I don't accept mediocrity, but I also don't whine and bitch like a school girl when a PAY service changes in a way I don't like. You have the option to cancel it, get an Ipod, and dl the shit you want. You sound like that sort of fella that's always telling the institution to go screw, you rebel you.

Another irrelevant whiney bitch 90 year old chimes in...

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/11/17/sirius-cuts-djs-re-shuffles-channel-lineup-beginning-of-the-en/print/

Sirius cuts DJs, re-shuffles channel lineup; beginning of the end?

Posted Nov 17th 2008 1:46PM by Brian White
Filed under: Bad news, Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI)

Sirius is now shuffling channels, trying to find a better mix that newer customers would be drawn to, as well as eliminating DJs on some music channels to save costs. When the difference between pay radio and terrestrial radio starts diminishing, that is a signal of the end. Sirius can't expect to have lackluster music programming and a lack of actual DJ personality to be perceived as "better" to existing customers, who could turn off satellite forever and create their own music service with a $50 MP3 player.

This article was linked to from Google Finance stock ticker page for SIRI... which is currently trading at 24 cents/share.

Darn... the shareholders can't even trade in a share for a gumball anymore.

[okterrificsk2]

Originally Posted by Beeman99 I don't accept mediocrity, but I also don't whine and bitch like a school girl when a PAY service changes in a way I don't like. You have the option to cancel it, get an Ipod, and dl the shit you want. You sound like that sort of fella that's always telling the institution to go screw, you rebel you.

What the fuck are you babbling on about beeman?

I already have dropped 3 of my 4 subs like many have already and i already know how to DL the shows for free(aka stealing). Unlike you, i care about other things besides OnA/RaF so again STFU.

You are the biggest whinner of them all. Whining about people you perceive to be Whining. :fight6: Stop being so fucking stupid you pathetic know nothing about anything fanboy.

Last thing ill say to you and dummies like you. If ONA had a set and started complaining and protesting about the "new xm" and all the negative changes im betting you would be taking the opposite view point than you currently have. BAAAA BAAA says the sheep. braaaaaain braaaaain says the zombie.

When either or both OnA/RaF get booted from sirius or moved to another channel or are forced to make programming changes with in the next 10 months im sure you will not be complaining right? "just cancel and stop whining" right faggggggoooooot?

Whining about people whining + having only stupid points + ignoring facts = you lose.

(my last response to you b/c theres no point in trying to talk with mindless trolls such as yourself).

good day sir.

[Begbie]

I had to do a double take before. I had XM Online on and was listening to Lithium. Green Day - "Blvd..." song was on (like I hadn't heard it enough on terrestrial) and then they played a Seal song. Yep...FUCKIN SEAL!!! How the fuck is that alternative rock!? So, I had to make sure that maybe the channel didn't somehow change by itself to like the 90's or The Pulse...but no, it was Lithium.

I then went to Classic Vinyl and heard, what I'm guessing is Carol Miller, talking about the Stones.

This is so far ridiculously worse.

[goreds2]

This is a 1990's way of doing things but it could have an impact because they could not ignore this because they would change paper every few minutes: :icon_lol:

Another idea to voice your opinion would be to FAX the SIRIUS-XM office mutliple times. I am sure they will not like wasting paper because they are "cutting costs" and these would be hard for them to ignore.

SIRIUS-XM Office Fax:

202 380-4500

[Beeman99]

What the fuck are you babbling on about beeman?

I already have dropped 3 of my 4 subs like many have already and i already know how to DL the shows for free(aka stealing). Unlike you, i care about other things besides OnA/RaF so again STFU.

You are the biggest whinner of them all. Whining about people you perceive to be Whining. :fight6: Stop being so fucking stupid you pathetic know nothing about anything fanboy.

Last thing ill say to you and dummies like you. If ONA had a set and started complaining and protesting about the "new xm" and all the negative changes im betting you would be taking the opposite view point than you currently have. BAAAA BAAA says the sheep. braaaaaain braaaaain says the zombie.

When either or both OnA/RaF get booted from sirius or moved to another channel or are forced to make programming changes with in the next 10 months im sure you will not be complaining right? "just cancel and stop whining" right faggggggoooooot?

Whining about people whining + having only stupid points + ignoring facts = you lose.

(my last response to you b/c theres no point in trying to talk with mindless trolls such as yourself).

good day sir.

what the fuck are you spewing about you dumb fucking twat? Good for you, you canceled all but one of your subs. But where do you get off calling me a fucking Zombie of a OnA fanboi? I don't keep my radios for 202 you dumb cunt. I keep it for the talk, sports, music, and 202, but it's not the main reason I keep it.

You sound like just another fucking 12 year old faggot that can't handle someone calling you out. When OnA got suspended, I never said boo. They were off, and I found other shit to listen to. Since then I haven't listened daily as I once did. I also wasn't one of the fucktards that were smashing/burning/etc their radios over it.

Before you get all uppity shitidick, think about what you are saying. All that last post of yours did is prove that you are a know nothing douche that can't handle not being right.

All I'm saying is the new programming is great, the merger has been good all in all. If someone doesn't like it, fine, call and complain, that's your right. But to fucking whine about a channel changing names over and over again and whine about how some non-relevant band isn't on anymore is pathetic. Same with this fucking shit of sending cock pics, etc etc. Sat Radio has changed, and this time around, if anything is going to be accomplished by the fans, they have to be smarter than just the fucking 4 year old humor.

Do you understand this now stupid?

[R.BuddDwyer]

The last few days I thought that when Opie said that the jocks have to stop talking like its regular radio, I thought he just meant banter.

Then the last couple hours I started listening to music on XM for the first time after the change.

HOLY FUCK they need to stop hitting the post. I don't fucking pay for music to be talked over with some random babble like they do on the radio so you can't tape it with your old Aiwa cassette player.

Seriously, who let that one go? If my cheif reason for XM weren't O+A, I'd consider dropping it, and if I happened be in a Best Buy and turn on an XM and hear some douche talking over your so advertised music, it would totally turn me off of it.

That's what happens when you bring in too much old-blood.

[Aaron Burrito]

The last few days I thought that when Opie said that the jocks have to stop talking like its regular radio, I thought he just meant banter.

Then the last couple hours I started listening to music on XM for the first time after the change.

HOLY FUCK they need to stop hitting the post. I don't fucking pay for music to be talked over with some random babble like they do on the radio so you can't tape it with your old Aiwa cassette player.

Seriously, who let that one go? If my cheif reason for XM weren't O+A, I'd consider dropping it, and if I happened be in a Best Buy and turn on an XM and hear some douche talking over your so advertised music, it would totally turn me off of it.

That's what happens when you bring in too much old-blood.

It really is horrible isn't it. Who thought that was a good idea? Some of these "DJ" are unlistenable.