[Responsibility1st]

Lord knows you couldn't pay me enough to listen to Stern. No way would I pay for this "privilege".

[proxy_user]

But don't they have 99 other channels?

[Plutarch]

Ouch, that has got to hurt. Pay millions for someone who then loses you extremely important business. If this is true for one car maker, it will be true for them all. And it is going into cars as OEM that will make or break satellite radio.

I just love to see how clueless these media people are.

[VRWCmember]

Since about 99% of the time I drive my auto is in one metro area with literally hundreds of radio stations to choose from, why in the world would I want to pay for satellite radio when I have all the radio programming I want for free.

[Dont Mention the War]

All those uptight Hyundai owners will be in for quite a thrill when they turn on their good Christian, family-oriented XM and get to hear Jim Norton talking about prostitutes taking dumps on his chest.

[stylecouncilor]

I'm not sure I fully believe this story. Stern's listeners regularly get through on CNN with phony phone calls. I think they have an axe to grind.

[Gator101]

The first time I saw a promotion for Sirius they had hired a bunch of local strippers to dance on a small stage outside a concert and hand out t-shirts.

They weren't actually striping, but darn near. They also brought along "annoying-strip-club-announcer-guy" to MC with his standard sex industry commentary

I'd sat Stern fits right in with their company philosophy. I bet it's costing them too.

[truth_seeker]

I have Sirius, and they have Fox News, plus several other news sources of interest sometimes (BBC, Cspan, etc.)

For music, there is much more than we have in big market lost angeles metro.

A great blues channel, five jazz channels, and too many rock variations.

Warning. Sirius business methods are weak. Their billing system is weak.

For that reason, I took a six month bite.

I won't be listening to H. Stern. I don't understand what is entertaining about his gig.

[BallyBill]

I guess they were going to FORCE people to pay the extra monthly fee for Howard Stern if they went with sirus. I mean come om this can't be sirius!!!

[BobL]

...you know, if Sirius wanted those customers back, they could sign up El Rushbo...

[America_Right]

Bad decision. EVERYONE I know that has (or had - including me) XM is switching or has switched to Sirius. Stern had nothing to do with my decision. Sirius is just a far superior product for the average listener or the talk radio nut. As far as Stern goes, I liked him for about a month, but after that his material just repeated over and over again. I will never listen to him on Sirius. On the other hand, O&A were pretty good. I subscribed to them for about 3 months before I got rid of XM altogether.
Hyundai must have worded their survey in such a way that would make it seem as though Stern had something to do with people not wanting Sirius.

[reg45]

There will soon be dual-band satellite radios available. You will be able to choose XM, Sirius or both on the same radio receiver.

[ElPatriota]

Well, I am sure we are all aware that we vote with our dollars... I dislike 80% of what hollywood puts out and so I stopped going to the movies on a regular basis a long time ago. Besides I have HBO, Stars and others on my Directv, so I have enough. 50 million plus voted for Bush in last election. :) Just imagine the power we could have if we decided to flex our collective muscle! [smile], would not that be sweet... I think is happening already with MSM for instance. Since there plenty of sources now, we conservatives, don't need those channels anymore. Also the Internet, blogs, etc, make magazines and newspaper, not as necesary as before, so less people buy them.