XM vs Sirius

[HardcoreRobot]

sirius, bc im a stockholder

 

[BDawg]

Regardless of how great O&A are and how ****** Stern is, XM has better music. Much better music. I've spent a lot of time listening to both. Sirius is much closer to having the playlist of an FM station.

I wish XM had NFL, but MLB is much better for the radio format.

Finally, XM hardware is far beyond anything offered by Sirius.

Edit: Can we just get this topic locked and tacked? It seems like it's brought up every other week.

 

[chibchakan]

12 Easy Steps To Choose Between Sirius And XM Radio

 

[Red Dawn]

"XM discovered that almost nobody was paying extra for Opie and Anthony. As a result, XM is raising their fees, and making Opie and Anthony part of the base package. This eliminates the small price advantage that XM once held over Sirius."

LOL, they charged an extra dollar a month for O&A and only 35,000 people signed up for it .

 

[Mucho]

"I like Hip Hop and Country."

Boy thats one weird combination

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: altonb1

Stern sucks--when I was abbout 15, I thought he was funny. the kielbasa queen...stuff like that was edgy and hilarious. Unfortunately, I grew up and he did not. 20 years later, he is just a slimeball perv that doesn't do anything except objectify women as sex objects. perhaps that is why so few subs were gained when he actually made the switch.

Originally posted by: altonb1
O&A...

(For the record, I do listen to them sometimes...

I thought you 'grew up?' O&A has virtually the same content as the Stern show. You seem to have contradicted yourself.

You don't think O&A objectify women as sex objects? 'Whip 'em Out Wednesdays' anyone?

Just wanted to show your hypocrisy.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: chibchakan
12 Easy Steps To Choose Between Sirius And XM Radio

FYI, although this is somewhat helpful, the information in it is very outdated. As it happens I live in Minneapolis and have Sirius - there is NO WAY I lose signal in half of downtown Minneapolis. I have only ever lost coverage in a couple of areas, for no more than a couple of seconds. The actual coverage in downtown Mpls is closer to 95% than 50.

 

[TheAdvocate]

Its pointless arguing like there is a correct answer for a question about tastes.

Unless one of the two had an exclusive package that you consider a high priority, then it's just about taste, which no one can answer for you.

I'm a Sirius subscriber. Never listened to Stern. I also have XM in my office. Personally, I like Sirius' music channels a little better than XM, especially Left of Center (Sirius 26), though their playlists are starting to get more redundant. But that's just my personal opinion.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
"XM discovered that almost nobody was paying extra for Opie and Anthony. As a result, XM is raising their fees, and making Opie and Anthony part of the base package. This eliminates the small price advantage that XM once held over Sirius."

LOL, they charged an extra dollar a month for O&A and only 35,000 people signed up for it .

And that couldn't possibly have anything to do with their absence from the airwaves for 2 years following the St Pats thing as opposed to Stern's 18 month long commercial for Sirius? You really can't compare the 2 situations as they are vastly different.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Sirius has a better variety of music, while XM likes to pound that repetitive top 40 crap.

You have it completely backwards.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
"XM discovered that almost nobody was paying extra for Opie and Anthony. As a result, XM is raising their fees, and making Opie and Anthony part of the base package. This eliminates the small price advantage that XM once held over Sirius."

LOL, they charged an extra dollar a month for O&A and only 35,000 people signed up for it .

And that couldn't possibly have anything to do with their absence from the airwaves for 2 years following the St Pats thing as opposed to Stern's 18 month long commercial for Sirius? You really can't compare the 2 situations as they are vastly different.

it's basically because they suck.

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: altonb1
I've had XM since 2003. I like the service, have never had any problems with it, and overall, think it is a good service. What is really funny is that the people that try to tout Sirius use Stern as their one and only argument. Stern sucks--when I was abbout 15, I thought he was funny. the kielbasa queen...stuff like that was edgy and hilarious. Unfortunately, I grew up and he did not. 20 years later, he is just a slimeball perv that doesn't do anything except objectify women as sex objects. perhaps that is why so few subs were gained when he actually made the switch.

If you think he's just a slimeball, have you not look at pics.bbzzdd.com lately ? this is atot how much of it are jessica alba as sex objects and many other. Theres probably more pervs here than that one man alone

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: FrancesBeansRevenge

Will Oprah, who recently signed with XM, ever have a similar percentage? Very doubtful.

Exactly, why pay for oprah when you can see her show for free on tv.. its not like you need to live oprah 24/7

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: DonVito
Stern>God

I've edited my posts above. I'm done arguing, it seems like we get one of these threads every week, and it's always the same cast of Stern lovers vs. me.

I'm just done arguing, I prefer O&A, everyone on ATOT prefers Stern. They are fvcking radio shows, that's it.

I'm on your side. there there...

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Linflas

And that couldn't possibly have anything to do with their absence from the airwaves for 2 years following the St Pats thing as opposed to Stern's 18 month long commercial for Sirius? You really can't compare the 2 situations as they are vastly different.

It'll be interesting to see what kind of ratings they attract now that they're back on CBS and in syndication. Presumably they'll do well now that they have no real competition, but we shall see. Some of the east-coast markets have been very loyal to Stern, but I have to imagine people will at least give O&A a chance. Personally I love Stern and have never found O&A even remotely entertaining, but to each his own.

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: Linflas

And that couldn't possibly have anything to do with their absence from the airwaves for 2 years following the St Pats thing as opposed to Stern's 18 month long commercial for Sirius? You really can't compare the 2 situations as they are vastly different.

It'll be interesting to see what kind of ratings they attract now that they're back on CBS and in syndication. Presumably they'll do well now that they have no real competition, but we shall see. Some of the east-coast markets have been very loyal to Stern, but I have to imagine people will at least give O&A a chance. Personally I love Stern and have never found O&A even remotely entertaining, but to each his own.

I think O&A are funny, but the censored/uncensored format of the show is pretty lame. Stern is happy being exclusively on Sirius, he doesn't have to be the FCC's bitch.

 

[2Dead]

Originally posted by: JoPh
ron n fez

o & a and ron n fez are awesome. stupid wnew for taking them off the air. I also get them on the high voltage xm channel with directv.

 

[Beattie]

Why do people say "Sirius has NFL, /thread"

Who listens to NFL games on the radio? Almost all the NFL games are on sunday at the same times every week, and I would wager that 99% of the people out there sit in front of their TV and watch it or go to the stadium. It's not like baseball where there are games every day at all different times. It makes sense to listen to baseball on the radio, but the NFL adds nothing to sirius.

From what I have heard (I have XM, not sirius) Sirius has better music. I cant stand any of the music stations on XM. They all go too "deep" into stuff that I dont know and dont care about. I wish they had at least one channel that was more popular stuff and a wider selection. I have heard Zeppelin on XM only once or twice for example even though they are huge. I have heard the same obscure Foreigner song 3 days in a row.

But for talk, O&A > Stern. I pretty much just listen to O&A on XM since like I said, the music stinks.

 

[lokiju]

I got Sirius because of their Rock stations but since you don't listen to rock then I don't know that it matter which one you get.

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Hav0k99

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Taggart
sirius = stern

/no longer relevant
/he's hack
/thread

FIXED!


XM has the most commercial-free music. they also have something like 5 country stations, they have numerous talk stations, and several hip-hop/rap/urban stations.

Cool thanks

Sirius has 6 R&B/Hip-Hop channels and 5 Country.

 

[Hammerhead]

Isn't sirius going to offer video?

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
Isn't sirius going to offer video?

Yes. That is the plan. If I recall, I'd have to look it up, XM was shot down somehow with being able to offer video...

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: Hammerhead
Isn't sirius going to offer video?

I don't know how. Both Sirius and XM are allocated the same bandwidth ammount. From what I hear, both have to play it pretty close with the channels they have in the given bandwidth.

 

[OutHouse]

I had cartoys install a Delphi skyFi-2 receiver for XM and i love it.

I did a side-by-side comparison of Sirius and XM for the stations offerd and for the most part they are pretty much the same. but I chose XM because it has BBC and MSNBC radio. I was getting tired of the local AM talk show host blabbering about the samething every morning and afternoon so haveing a couple of extra news stations is what influnced my decision.

as far as music, i can always find something that want to listen to. both companies have a pretty decent line up of music stations.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Beattie
Why do people say "Sirius has NFL, /thread"

Who listens to NFL games on the radio? Almost all the NFL games are on sunday at the same times every week, and I would wager that 99% of the people out there sit in front of their TV and watch it or go to the stadium. It's not like baseball where there are games every day at all different times. It makes sense to listen to baseball on the radio, but the NFL adds nothing to sirius.

From what I have heard (I have XM, not sirius) Sirius has better music. I cant stand any of the music stations on XM. They all go too "deep" into stuff that I dont know and dont care about. I wish they had at least one channel that was more popular stuff and a wider selection. I have heard Zeppelin on XM only once or twice for example even though they are huge. I have heard the same obscure Foreigner song 3 days in a row.

But for talk, O&A > Stern. I pretty much just listen to O&A on XM since like I said, the music stinks.

ummm truckers.