Does Sirius have any advantage over XM? Are they both around $10 per month?
Clear Channel owns part of XM. They also own KLOL.
Screw them if they think that they can run off the audience to their pay radio and replace them with a lower income demographic less likely to buy digital radio at this time.
Clear Channel concerts still have the contracts on the civic auditoriums around town but damned if I will buy a $25-125 ticket if they don't believe that there is an audience for these same bands on the radio.
You know I can't remember exactly, but when we "evaluated" them, Sirius came out on top, may have been the choices and initial costs I think. Sirius is $10 if you pay annual chunk, $13 if monthly. Second subscription is additional $6 month I think. The startup costs of "docking station" (receiver) and whatever the other doohickey is (we bought a package at Circuit City) prolly around $100. You can get a portable boombox, or get a docking/receiver for your car (has removeable faceplate I think).
You'll need to read up on it all at the website. After shopping around between a car stereo place and online etc, we got the best deal at Circuit City. We wanted to buy local in case there were any hardware issues, and it was cheapest too.
We listen to Sirius and dropped cable TV. Fox News entire programming is on Sirius, as well as every ball game - hubby is happy cuz he can get games they don't show on TV. It's insane how much choice you have in music- and comedy as well, and they even have a comedy channel that's profanity/lewd free if you have young kids to worry about. Add to that lots of talk radio channels too.
We have been very very pleased.