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.
Ok.. first you have to realize there are 69 music commercial free music channels on XM. That is a lot of channels of music, I find it fine when one music channel plugs another. If they didn't the listener might not know that there is another channel out there that might suit there taste. For every hour of music, there might be maybe 45-60 seconds worth of either station identification (which the FCC mandates for all radio stations including satellite radio "sirius and XM")or plugging other channels or certain events that will be happening on the current channel that you are listening to. This is as opposed to terestrial radio where you can hear up to 15 to 20 minutes worth of commercials.
Also if all 170 channels of XM were commercial free then it would cost a lot more per month to subscribe to satellite radio. This idiot has to realize that everything has some type of self promoting ads. Look at HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime. You pay for commerical free service there but between movies it shows other things that you can see on those channels. Does that mean that we should sue HBO for having commercials on there channels too. Where does this madness start. This guy just saw a way to make some money and try covering his butt but making it a class action lawsuit.
By the way Sirius satellite radio has just as much self promoting on its "commerical free" music channels. Does that mean Sirius subscibers should ban together and sue Sirius too?
Uhm, dicky, you do know that some music channels have genuine, real commercials, that is what I was responding to. Those are the ClearChannel stations. That is what I think is wrong.
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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.
Ok.. first you have to realize there are 69 music commercial free music channels on XM. That is a lot of channels of music, I find it fine when one music channel plugs another. If they didn't the listener might not know that there is another channel out there that might suit there taste. For every hour of music, there might be maybe 45-60 seconds worth of either station identification (which the FCC mandates for all radio stations including satellite radio "sirius and XM")or plugging other channels or certain events that will be happening on the current channel that you are listening to. This is as opposed to terestrial radio where you can hear up to 15 to 20 minutes worth of commercials.
Also if all 170 channels of XM were commercial free then it would cost a lot more per month to subscribe to satellite radio. This idiot has to realize that everything has some type of self promoting ads. Look at HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime. You pay for commerical free service there but between movies it shows other things that you can see on those channels. Does that mean that we should sue HBO for having commercials on there channels too. Where does this madness start. This guy just saw a way to make some money and try covering his butt but making it a class action lawsuit.
By the way Sirius satellite radio has just as much self promoting on its "commerical free" music channels. Does that mean Sirius subscibers should ban together and sue Sirius too?
Uhm, dicky, you do know that some music channels have genuine, real commercials, that is what I was responding to. Those are the ClearChannel stations. That is what I think is wrong.