[mrailing @ Apr 20th 2007 10:48AM]

I have had XM Radio since almost day one. At first all stations had advertisements and then later they removed advertisements from the music channels. They have station breaks on the music channels with "identification and phone numbers to call XM", or talk of what's on the other XM channels, but I haven't heard any "Paid" advertisements on music channels in a long time. So whether you consider inhouse station identification, or inhouse announcements of what's on other channels "commercials" then it depends. It also depends on what XM defines as a commercial. It might be that they consider it "paid" commercials, which haven't been on in a long time.

@erac3rx

They didn't say "no ads", they said commercial free music. Big difference between music and talk channels, and even their channel lineups tell you which stations are commercial free, which is all the "music" channels. The talk channels are mostly repeats of broadcast shows elsewhere, and aren't always put on by XM directly, so they still do have commercials.