XM vs Sirius
 

Had a chance to closely monitor both for a couple of weeks....
XM best by far....
Mel should be firing...kicking ass and changing music computer wizard
consultants or he's gonna be left with nothing by the time Stern comes on
board. Mel's channel lineup made no sense.

I have both and my impression is exactly the opposite of yours. I find
the XM channels are all AOR, All Over The Road. You can hear good music
on XM if you punch enough buttons. They do have a pattern of playing
really obscure music on many channels. Sirius has more channels you can
turn on and just leave it there.

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"stamplaw" wrote:

I have both and my impression is exactly the opposite of yours. I find
the XM channels are all AOR, All Over The Road. You can hear good music
on XM if you punch enough buttons. They do have a pattern of playing
really obscure music on many channels. Sirius has more channels you can
turn on and just leave it there.

I tried leaving Sirius on but it felt so much like regular FM..

Bueller

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"Foxsrus1" wrote in message
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Had a chance to closely monitor both for a couple of weeks....
XM best by far....
Mel should be firing...kicking ass and changing music computer wizard
consultants or he's gonna be left with nothing by the time Stern comes on
board. Mel's channel lineup made no sense.

While XM may indeed "best by far," you state that Mel's channel lineup "made
no sense." This is really not very informative. From the viewpoint of a
programmer or listener, you need to provide some _reasons_ why, to you,
"Mel's channel lineup made no sense." Lacking the reasons, nobody know what
the heck you mean by the statement. Thanks.

I'd like to see Mel get rid of all the useless voice tracking, excessive
promos and channel ID's between every song on the Sirius music
channels. Sirius is starting to sound just like overproduced FM minus a
few commercials.






Foxsrus1 wrote:

Had a chance to closely monitor both for a couple of weeks....
XM best by far....
Mel should be firing...kicking ass and changing music computer wizard
consultants or he's gonna be left with nothing by the time Stern comes on
board. Mel's channel lineup made no sense.

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:04:28 +0000, ejxit wrote:

I'd like to see Mel get rid of all the useless voice tracking, excessive
promos and channel ID's between every song on the Sirius music
channels. Sirius is starting to sound just like overproduced FM minus a
few commercials.






Foxsrus1 wrote:

Had a chance to closely monitor both for a couple of weeks....
XM best by far....
Mel should be firing...kicking ass and changing music computer wizard
consultants or he's gonna be left with nothing by the time Stern comes on
board. Mel's channel lineup made no sense.





And I think XM is over Voice Tracked and Promoed to death.
I'm paying for programming not Promos.

I'd like to see Mel get rid of all the useless voice tracking, excessive
promos and channel ID's between every song on the Sirius music
channels.

I like the personalities. I listen primarily to Standard Time and
Broadway's Best. The jocks know their music and are entertaining. They're
also versatile. Jason Drew is part of the ''Morning Mess'' on Sirius Hits
1. Later in the day he's the ''Broadway Baby'' on Broadway's Best. I've
also heard one of the standards personalities down the dial playing country.

I wish they could simulcast WWV's time signal. Now THAT'S entertainment!

GTT




fredtv wrote:

I'd like to see Mel get rid of all the useless voice tracking, excessive
promos and channel ID's between every song on the Sirius music
channels.


I like the personalities. I listen primarily to Standard Time and
Broadway's Best. The jocks know their music and are entertaining. They're
also versatile. Jason Drew is part of the ''Morning Mess'' on Sirius Hits
1. Later in the day he's the ''Broadway Baby'' on Broadway's Best. I've
also heard one of the standards personalities down the dial playing country.

"G.T. Tyson" wrote:

I wish they could simulcast WWV's time signal. Now THAT'S entertainment!

Too late... WWV is now "The Tick"...
http://www.grantassoc.net/wwv.html

Be *sure* to click on the clock to hear a sample.

"G.T. Tyson" wrote:

I wish they could simulcast WWV's time signal. Now THAT'S entertainment!

GTT

fredtv wrote:

I'd like to see Mel get rid of all the useless voice tracking, excessive
promos and channel ID's between every song on the Sirius music
channels.


I like the personalities. I listen primarily to Standard Time and
Broadway's Best. The jocks know their music and are entertaining. They're
also versatile. Jason Drew is part of the ''Morning Mess'' on Sirius Hits
1. Later in the day he's the ''Broadway Baby'' on Broadway's Best. I've
also heard one of the standards personalities down the dial playing country.

I asked NIST a few years ago if they could add a subcarrier to the C
band NASA feed with the 60 Khz modulation of WWVB, but I couldn't
convince them it could be done. They insisted that you can't add a
subcarrier from a second uplink which I know isn't true. United Video
was doing it in the mid '80s on their WGN uplink, and fed their tv
program guide from Salt Lake City. Prior to my idea they leased two
phone lines to Chicago for about $10,000 a month. It took me a while to
convince the engineer of our microwave division that it would work.

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