washingtonpost.com — You're finally ready to shell out $13 a month for what used to be free. But you can't tell the difference between the Coke and Pepsi of the satellite radio business, Washington-based XM and New York-based Sirius.
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gophergodAug 16, 2006
Sat Radio has commercials, just not on the music channels.
graywolf323Aug 17, 2006
they really need to just merge so I can have my baseball, football, npr, playboy, etc. on the same service
Closed AccountAug 17, 2006
All radio is bulls**t. FM/AM offers CRAP programming, and XM/Sirius offers CRAP sound quality. I'll take my portable MP3/FLAC/Ogg player over that non-sense anyday. No one dictates what I listen to, and I don't pay a monthly fee. My playlists probably extend their playlists anyway.
eddieoAug 17, 2006
I like O&A, although they sold out going back to terrestrial radio. Ron & Fez, are not funny at all.
chazzzzyAug 17, 2006
Not true Radink... Stern is live current (he took a week off at the beginning of August).. during the summer he takes Fridays off.. but not always. PLUS all the other original content he has on his 2 stations is SICK, that you don't care if he takes a day off. If you are picking for Stern or O&A.. go with the one that took MILLIONS of subcribers with him.. not the ones who couldn't even draw 25000.. and had to go back to terrrestrial because they were such a failure.
tdmckeeAug 19, 2006
OK chazzy, you keep drinking the stern kool-aid and pretending that it's still 1998 and that Stern is still relevant... It has been repeated many times, by Hugh Panero and others at XM that O&A are one of the top 10 listened to channels on XM, don't know where you got your numbers from but you're full of it - and if going to bigger markets and bigger contracts means failing, then damn I wish I was more of a failure. Just face it - from now on, the Stern listenership will only plateau with those able to afford Sirius, while Opie and Anthony get to reach out to an ever expanding syndication market, get great ratings in the process as a proven success in the radio world, and constantly continue to grow their audience and get bigger and bigger. Wow, what failures. I'm sure Stern puts on a great show, I've heard people say it, I just prefer O&A, even back when they were both on WBCN in Boston, I preferred the bbboys to Howie, he's just too full of himself for my taste. I for one welcome our new Opie and Anthony airwave overlords. ;)
kolop1Aug 22, 2006
If your a college football or MLB fan get XM. If your a nascar or an NFL fan get Sirius. If you juat want to listen to music it does not matter. If you want talk radio, they are also poretty much the same. I Have Sirius, and the only reason i choose it was for the NFL content.