Pandora......
Gotta agree, Hannity is just really bad radio.
On the bright side Sirius XM just signed an exclusive deal with Michael Smerconish. Does that make you any happier?
Didn’t think so.
I agree. I want Fox Talk back. It’s a good alternative to FNC when they just get silly — such as on The Five, Shepherd Smith, Fox & Friends, or Geraldo. Now I switch to the Catholic Channel when any of those programs get ridiculous.
My biggest beef is the poor audio quality. I definitely will not renew my subscription.
Fox News Talk was my favorite channel. Hannity and Beck I can listen to for only short intervals. The comedy of Beck and crew can be grating sometimes, and Hannity rarely inquires into a given topic with any depth. That’s why I loved listening to Tom Sullivan, Brian Kilmeade and John Gibson. They offer decent analysis of topics in and out of politics each with a different tone. I listen the days I work from home online.
Sirius has very little in the way of decent talk programs...but plenty of liberal crap like Stars, POTUS, CNN, etc. I do like to listen to Andrew Wilkow, the religious channels and the World Radio Network once in a while. I renewed in February after they cancelled FNT for $5/month for five months (an attempt to stem the cancellations). If they don’t continue that offer in July, I’m probably going to drop it. $5/month is all it is worth.
The quality of the programming morphed to a mass of commercials interlaced with low grade content/programming. No better the commercial AM radio. There is no reason to pay for that junk anymore.
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When I’m in my car, I like to get away from today’s world for a while.
I love my Sirrus Radio. I keep it tuned to rebroadcasts of the shows of my youth—Gun Smoke, Fibber McGee and Molly, Bob Hope, etc etc.
If I want to get really depressed, I’d probably listen to Hannity and the like.
Also, I don’t watch television “news”. It’s much easier on the heart and blood pressure to read it on FR.
According to some there won’t be in dash radio in automobiles within five years.
It’s interesting, yours is the exact opposite complaint I had/have with Sirius.
You see, the Sirius app that you can play on your iPhone ( or Galaxy or whatever), that is free to download and costs $2.99 to activate as its own “radio” (although if course it’s really a streaming signal) has in it’s “news/talk” section Fox News Radio. But it doesn’t have Fox News, unlike “real” satellite radios.
I have a car now that has a sattelite radio unit so now I use that to listen to Fox News. But it did drive me crazy they didn’t have Fox News on the app! They still don’t either.
I never found Fox News Radio very interesting. I thought the hosts were rather bland. Is that what you mean by “Fox News Talk”? If so, you could’ve just downloaded the app and played it on whatever smartphone you have, even in your cars, for an additional $2.99 a month.
I already pay for the cell phone data plan. Why would I pay more for radio?
Okay, I must be late to this party as I don’t know what’s happening here.
I have XM, and quite honsetly, it sounds like it’s playing through a tin can. The sound is really crappy. But I thought I have Fox News and a couple of other conservative stations, am I missing something?
I too am seriously thinking about dumping XM, but mostly because of the sound quality.
Ever try listening to XM-125 on weekends? Very little live programming (Bauer and Rose on Sundays), reruns of Hannity and Beck, and off the air most of the time! And while they're off the air, Sirius Left is still spewing commie bs.
Oh well, basketball season is almost over, so terrestrial radio will soon be back to normal ...
Check your listings. They may have gone terrestrial.
-PJ
Wilkow is worth at least one subscription
In what way is it a “confederacy?”
Sorry you’re not happy but your vanity is just that. Nothing you say has anything to do with the success of their business model.
Here’s the bottom line: bandwidth costs money. Telecoms are finally realizing that “unlimited” really means the kids with the fastest toys are going to tie-up 90% of their capital investment (i.e. bandwidth) and guess what’s been going on with the growth of smartphones and tablets? Something’s got to give and it’s going to be your pocketbook. If you’d rather write a check to AT&T or Verizon, that’s your choice, but it’s a choice betweeen paying for broadcasting content direct to you via satellite vs paying for it to be relayed via satellite to terrestrial broadband providers that transmit it to your device.
Been running Sirius since about 2002. Never had problems, audio quality can still annoy my family and make my ears ring (might oughtta stop that one...), and have never missed Fox News Channel since it joined the network.
Never listened to Fox News Talk so not really missing it. Just know that in all three ‘sets’ the station comes in 5 by 5.
A little irked that SciFi channel never made it to air, it was one of the possible channels that helped trigger joining.
YMMV
I was a Sirius and xm user until I got my first smartphone four years ago. With it, I have unlimited options and the true portability that even the portable units didn’t offer. Sirius still direct markets to me. The last time they called, I asked the rep if they had heard about Internet streaming. My wife’s new vehicle has xm with a prepaid period. instead, i got her a cable to plug her phone into the auxiliary input. Quality is probably not much different (depending on the source) but is perfect for casual listening. I cannot imagine ever paying for xm again- even if it was Pandora- priced! In only a dozen years, their cutting edge has been blunted and they are a dinosaur. They are not long for this world...