Sirius XM - The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade - TIME
We are on the list along with the Segway, Microsoft Zune and Vonage.
We are on the list along with the Segway, Microsoft Zune and Vonage.
True.Cable TV was worth paying for (still is). XM was worth paying for at one time before it got 'Melvined'
True.I still think it's worth it, just not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be.
We're starting to see two groups of people who listen to radio. In no certain order:
1) People that listen to eight or nine hours of the same music channel every day. If they hear two songs by the same day in the same day, even if they're different ones, then all hell breaks loose. If they hear someone's main band in one hour, and the drummer's side project in the second hour, then all hell breaks loose.
2) People that mix up their listening habits. They'll check out some of the talk, maybe flip over to sports pbp on the weekend or in the evening. They may fill it out with a little bit of music here and there.
It's obvious that Sirius XM wants more of the second group of listeners as subscribers, even though group one is just as important.
In the car I am always #2.
Personally I fall into #2, but I also seem to think from a lot of people that I have talked to, outside of what I read on here, I think there is a lot more of group #2's than group #1's.
Maybe overall, but for me personally, it's in my Top 3...
Maybe overall, but for me personally, it's in my Top 3...
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I come from the time when cable TV was a new fangled thing in town and most people weren't willing to pay for it.Cable TV was worth paying for (still is). XM was worth paying for at one time before it got 'Melvined'
Nut you do realise that some people went with Satellite Radio expecting to hear something vastly different then FM. When I first got Sirius it was amazing. That was in 2005 and since then they slowly tweaked and played with the line up so much it was not much different then FM radio. I wasn't looking to pay for FM without commercials.Maybe it's just on this forum, but the group #1 seems to be really vocal.
"OMG. How could a classic rock channel play Hell's Bells at 11 AM and then play "Welcome To The Jungle" at 11:15. Don't they know there's more than that? And then I heard MORE AC/DC at 12:45 PM, 4:32 PM, and 7 PM. ARGH!"
We're starting to see two groups of people who listen to radio. In no certain order:
1) People that listen to eight or nine hours of the same music channel every day. If they hear two songs by the same day in the same day, even if they're different ones, then all hell breaks loose. If they hear someone's main band in one hour, and the drummer's side project in the second hour, then all hell breaks loose.
2) People that mix up their listening habits. They'll check out some of the talk, maybe flip over to sports pbp on the weekend or in the evening. They may fill it out with a little bit of music here and there.
It's obvious that Sirius XM wants more of the second group of listeners as subscribers, even though group one is just as important.
sirixm definitely wants more of 2. i just think that there are a very vocal very small group of 1s that are making it more difficult for there to be any more new subscribers at all. this is why i question those of the subscribers who have dropped their subscriptions because of a "shallow playlist" if they were that interested in the music (and only the music) why they got satellite radio at all or didn't cancel sooner and just fill up an mp3 player with the stuff they want to listen to.We're starting to see two groups of people who listen to radio. In no certain order:
1) People that listen to eight or nine hours of the same music channel every day. If they hear two songs by the same day in the same day, even if they're different ones, then all hell breaks loose. If they hear someone's main band in one hour, and the drummer's side project in the second hour, then all hell breaks loose.
2) People that mix up their listening habits. They'll check out some of the talk, maybe flip over to sports pbp on the weekend or in the evening. They may fill it out with a little bit of music here and there.
It's obvious that Sirius XM wants more of the second group of listeners as subscribers, even though group one is just as important.