Looking over XM satellite radio's selections, I wish we'd chosen them instead sometimes. XM originally didn't have an old-time radio channel, which is why I wanted Sirius initially; now XM has one as well. Sirius already disappointed me by combining the Swing music channel with the Standards channel; someone there really doesn't know music—they are two different animals. Their New Age channel, which I'd been looking forward to, plays the most lugibrious selections I've ever heard. And frankly I don't care about Sirius' most touted features, like two Howard Stern channels (one is enough if you must have Stern at all!), an Elvis channel, a Rolling Stone channel, a Jimmy Buffett channel, and Martha Stewart...zzzzzz... Granted, I do like Cousin Brucie's show on Saturday nights on 60s Vibrations and enjoy listening to Jerry Doyle occasionally.

XM not only keeps their 40s music separate from their standards (although both XM and Sirius have this unfortunate obsession for stocking both with too much damn Frank Sinatra—hey, guys, how about more Perry Como and Bing Crosby?), but they also have a channel called "Sunny," which is just beautiful music like WLKW in Providence did many years ago. They not only have a Broadway showtunes channel, but one devoted to movie scores as well. Their Atlanta traffic channel is a dedicated channel, not shared with another city.

Ah, well, just another "had I but known" situation. Am at least looking forward to Sirius' Blue-Collar Comedy channel, coming whenever...

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Comments:

Hi there,

I came across your blog while searching articles on Sirius. And I totally agree! I hate when compainies like Sirius do things like that. At least now they are seperating the Blue Collar Comedy. Let's hope they keep the 3 different comedy channels and not combine them.

I originally wanted to signup with XM until I found out that Raw Dog moved over to Sirius. Then of course I had to get it, Howard and the rest of what Sirius has was just icing on the cake.

-Chris

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