On XM Satellite Radio’s Commercials on Some Music Channels:
"I will not pay and have to listen to full blown annoying commercials. We should boycott these idoits and find other services on line. Then find a good class action attorney." – CTR, Los Angeles
"After reading listener email about the outrage of Commericals on Xm, I have to ask myself. Do these people know that XM added more commerical free music station to offset the 4 music channels from Clear Channel? Xm Still has the most Commerical Free music. It seems to me that there is a lot of outrage for nothing. When the contract with Clear Channel is up those station will go Bye Bye. So for the people who are complaining, If Xm mattered so much then you would be aware of what XM has done to make you the listener happy." -Tiensthirdeye@xxxxx.xxx (privacy Protected)
"I bought the service to hear music and care nothing about Gelva in Maine who wants to hear a particular song. Even the classical channels have 'promos'/commercials with clever introductions such as, 'Welcome to the Steinway hour' - paraphrased. Honestly, the only reason I keep my XM Radio subscription is because it is a part of my car (and I like all things to work in my car)." - gcoombs@xxxx.xxx (privacy protected)
"I think its cheap how companies play the word game, they get with their lawyers and their dictionaries and find select wording to make us think one thing while they mean quite another." – Bryan
"…apparently the station I like, The Mix, is a clear channel left-over and they choose to play those annoying info-mercials like Pro-Active, Pet RX and Sign-up to be a Mystery Shopper…call 1-800-blah,blah, blah. I’m not happy about hearing that garbage since we paid an arm and a leg to get XM not to mention the expensive SUV it came with." - Ann Marie
On HD Radio
"Folks, it's the same tired old crap that the major radio stations are putting out now, just three times more, and it does sound a bit better…It's obvious that the AM/FM stations are scared to death of the growth of non-terrestrial radio and it's killing them. They are just slapping some lipstick on the Pig that current AM/FM broadcasting has become and they're trying to pass it off as something new and trendy that the American public 'must' buy." – Ron
"...there is nothing 'High Definition' about HD Radio, and you won't find any reference to 'High Definition' on the website for Ibiquity Corporation, the developer and licensing agent for HD Radio technology. The trademark was obviously created to cause confusion with HDTV, which indeed is 'High Definition'...At a presentation to broadcast engineers, an Ibiquity spokesperson made it a point to tell us that the 'HD' in HD Radio should not be meant to infer that there is anything 'High Definition' about their product, and that it's only a trademark." - Joseph
On Old School Radio
"I heard in school that at one time, the DJ was playing the top hits when he stepped out for a soft drink, and the door locked behind him and the station played 'The Chipmunk Song' (or was it 'The Witch Doctor'?) thirty-six times in a row, all night. In the days when those songs were popular, the technology might just let that happen." - Art
