[Myrddin]

Plug up your XM radio and kiss all that KRAP goodbye.

Do you actually have XM radio? I do. The top of each hour is loaded with crap. Not just commercials, but useless homegrown "tips" on topics less interesting than watching grass grow. I bought the XM rig to catch Drudge, Savage and CoastToCoast when I'm out of coverage. The internet streams of Drudge are equal or better. Savage is moving further left. CoastToCoast is fine on my local AM dial. I'm not sure I'll pay for another quarter of XM service. It just isn't what I had hoped it would be from a content point of voice.

[I_killed_kenny]

" topics less interesting than watching grass grow"
why you are knocking other people's hobbies? :-)

[this_ol_patriot]

I understand your thinking about XM voice. I wouldn't buy it for the voice.

I've had it a month now and it's about the music, never even had a voice station on, in fact I locked those out. It's on 24/7 on the home stereo since we don't drive much. Jazz, classical, classic rock, disco heh, R&B, country, Sinatra, soul, Cinemagic, they had an old Miles Davis concert on last week and sometime in July they are doing a massive hit countdown across the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's stations that will take more than a week. We haven't had the TV on except for news and weather since we got it. Best 10 bucks a month I've spent for entertainment.

http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_listing.jsp?sort=number

[July 4th]

Only XM-produced music channels are commercial free. When it comes to talk radio, those shows are geared for affiliates, so they're going to break for commercials several times an hour. That 6 minute top-of-the-hour break is standard no matter where you listen to a show.

I have XM, but I'm considering getting rid of it -- not because of the content, but because of the quality. The voice sound quality is like a 24k RealAudio stream.