[BC] sats merger

[Robert Meuser]

If XM hired the best programmers, what did they do with them?  I have 
had XM almost since day one and I have always found the programming 
uneven and frustrating. There is not one channel I can think of that has 
any consistency other than a few of the dance channels. It sounds to me 
like overly egotistical programmers playing radio.  When I got Sirius I 
found it some what of a relief. Certainly much better than XM but not 
really up to being worth what I pay for it.  Most people I know are 
Sirius subscribers. I think the numbers them self show the trend; two 
years ago XM had double the listeners than Sirius now it is something 
like less than 20% more.

Unfortunately Sirius is very inferior technically to XM both in quality 
and coverage. That is saying a lot since I recently rented a Hummer with 
XM included. The quality was so bad on that sound system (which was 
pretty decent) I couldn't listen to some of the channels. In fact every 
rock channel was unlistenable. I usually listen to either service on two 
inch speakers which seems to be about as big as you can get and be able 
to tolerate the artifacts.

Here is the beauty of the merger, Keep all the XM technical people and 
their systems and have the programmers walk the plank. Then go clean 
house on the technical side at Sirius.

R


earthradio wrote:

> If Sirius' over consulted, FM style music wins out over XM and Abrams, 
> myself and thousands of others are gone. XM hired the best programming 
> talent and has deeper playlists.
>
> Daniel L. Steele
>
> Robert Meuser wrote:
>
>> Rich:
>>
>> It is easy. First comes the multi system radio with heavy incentives 
>> to switch. Then come the thinning of both services which will 
>> hopefully eliminate those horribly programmed XM music channels which 
>> should also be about the time Abrams is shown the door if he has not 
>> left before then. Then comes a gradual technical alignment to a 
>> single system. That is, of course, if Mel hasn't morphed the whole 
>> thing into something totally different than what we see now.
>>
>> R
>
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