Ever since the layoffs, there has been one irate post after another stating that Sirius XM is going to lose hundreds of thousands of customers over the upcoming changes to the musical channels.

Let's remember gang, of existing 20 million subscribers, what percentage of those has idea what's going on, or is even really going to care? Joe Consumer just doesn't get wrapped up into the minutia of these things like some of us tend to.

If he clicks on his radio, and can find "the game" or find a listenable music station that doesn't have 20 minutes of commercials an hour, he's going to be rather happy regardless of whether the station is called "The Big 80's" or "Decades-The 80's". Those of us on boards like these are the token few who are going to jump off a bridge if "The Boneyard" is six feet under, Joe Consumer is going to go, "hmmmmm, I thought there was a metal station around here somewhere, guess not" and get on with his life.

While some of us may not be happy with what's going on (quite frankly I prefer the more hits oriented Sirius channels anyway) the notion that THIS is going to be the thing that undoes satellite radio is, quite frankly, misguided and silly.

PS-If I never hear the term "shallow playlist" again, it'll be too soon.

"shallow playlist"

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I agree. These people on these forums are such a tiny percentage of the subscribers. We're "in the noise". Zero point zero.

It's true. As much as we want to be heard and have an influence, average subs wont know or care. Which I guess works for SiriusXM, as there is bound to be more average listeners then diehards like us, so they can make it back quickly.

That doesn't mean I won't complain when I feel the need to, though.

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Especially those car-only listeners. Unless you work from your car, you're never going to notice the depth of playlists.

Just because someone doesn't log onto a bulletin board doesn't mean they're ignorant and impervious to differences in quality.

I guess we will find out soon how many are just fat and happy with no commercials and shallow playlists

I would hope for Sirius XM's sake, you are correct. All I can say is that when the channel changes happen I will re-evaluate my subscriptions and likely do the same thing they are doing .. rationalize it down to the minimum I can live with.

And I hope that all the channels don't have shallow playlists.

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Impervious to differences in quality, certainly not, but since this isn't really the Nightly News Headline many are treating it as, then yeah, I'd dare say most are rather ignorant to these issues.

The switch we'll be made, the majority of subscribers won't even notice, a small percentage after a few weeks may think to themselves "hmmmm, something isn't quite the same" and the even smaller, but clearly more vocal minority, will continue to come to boards like this and talk about killing themselves if Lucy doesn't return while not making a single dent on Sirius XM's bottom line.

Joe the Consumer may not care but Joe the Plumber is going to be uber-ticked.


But no, you're exactly right. The people on this forum do not give a true depiction of 97% of SiriusXM's listener base. So long as they can hear 80's without commercials or whatever they aren't going anywhere. They may say "oh, this isn't as good as it used to be" but most of them aren't gonna go anywhere. They just don't care as much as we do.

Yes, there will be some added churn but nothing like this forum (or any satellite radio forum) would lead you to believe.

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