I'm with this guy. I added XM to my car a little over a year ago and was extremely disappointed, in part because there is essentially only one channel per music type, but mainly because all of the spoken word (comedy, etc) channels have advertisements. I am not sure if they have added ads to the regular music channels, but nonetheless was very annoyed to learn that any of the channels with talking have ads. Rather than file a class action lawsuit, I just quit. But his point is definitely valid. They sold on the 'no ads' thing for quite some time but have been advertising on many of their channels all along. That's false advertising.
There is most definitely not one channel of every music type. There are at least 5 or 6 channels of every music type, and it has been this way for at least 4 years.
And yes, the advertisements are disappointing, but you have to put it into context. There are no advertisements on the vast majority of music channels, and this will not change. The channels that they license from somebody else (like "America's Left", which is actually Air America) do have advertisements, because the content was already parsed with advertisements. Unfortunately, a few of the music channels, that they license from ClearChannel, do have some advertisements. Not very much, but they're there. The only reason this is so is because ClearChannel sued XM to force them to carry ClearChannel's advertisements, and XM lost. I have heard that as soon as the contract between ClearChannel and XM expires, they will drop the commercial music channels, but right now they don't have a choice.
Fortunately, at least 90% of the music channels are XM's content, and commercial free.
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I'm with this guy. I added XM to my car a little over a year ago and was extremely disappointed, in part because there is essentially only one channel per music type, but mainly because all of the spoken word (comedy, etc) channels have advertisements. I am not sure if they have added ads to the regular music channels, but nonetheless was very annoyed to learn that any of the channels with talking have ads. Rather than file a class action lawsuit, I just quit. But his point is definitely valid. They sold on the 'no ads' thing for quite some time but have been advertising on many of their channels all along. That's false advertising.
There is most definitely not one channel of every music type. There are at least 5 or 6 channels of every music type, and it has been this way for at least 4 years.
And yes, the advertisements are disappointing, but you have to put it into context. There are no advertisements on the vast majority of music channels, and this will not change. The channels that they license from somebody else (like "America's Left", which is actually Air America) do have advertisements, because the content was already parsed with advertisements. Unfortunately, a few of the music channels, that they license from ClearChannel, do have some advertisements. Not very much, but they're there. The only reason this is so is because ClearChannel sued XM to force them to carry ClearChannel's advertisements, and XM lost. I have heard that as soon as the contract between ClearChannel and XM expires, they will drop the commercial music channels, but right now they don't have a choice.
Fortunately, at least 90% of the music channels are XM's content, and commercial free.