Comments on: Sirius XM Makes Good on A La Carte Promise

By: 5 minute membership

5 minute membership — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:19:32 +0000

great site full of great info

By: Dansch

Dansch — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:26:47 +0000

Question: Why isn’t the MLB on the Best of XM package for Sirius subscribers?

Answer: We would have liked to provided the MLB for our Sirius subscribers, but have not reached an agreement at this time. At MLB we are all about gouging our customers and angering fans whenever possible. Please be patient while we figure out how best to screw up this deal while extracting as much money as possible from everyone involved. Thanks for your support. – Bud

By: Will

Will — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:45:06 +0000

The fact that a la carte only works on the new radio is absolutely BS. If they can block channels for the family friendly packages and add extra channels for XM to Sirius so they can make more money off of us they can give a la carte to existing subscribers.

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By: peter A

peter A — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:59:45 +0000

Please answer the question regarding the NBA. The NBA has previously been available exclusively on Sirius. NOW, a Siruis subscriber must purchase the “best of XM” in order to get the level of service previosly provided by Sirius. Thus, there has clearly been a reduction in service. The Company has licensing rights to the NBA and has appearantly decided to entice Sirius subscribers to pay extra to get what they previously enjoyed at the basic fee. SHAMEFUL practices. Well, it didn’t take long for the company to start the squeeze. I quess the critics were right. Someone pleas inform Howard we were all duped.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:49:15 +0000

boy what a pack of lies I read many times we subscribers could get both xm and sirius (music channels and all) for 16.99 now I see its xms best which is not even a 1/4 of what they offer which I have no interest in.
And did they take NBA from sirius????????

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:52:11 +0000

I have sirius since 2003. I love the current selection i have offered to me. I also have a xm radio but its not activated. the sirius is.

I can do with out the oprah channel. but i find the XMX channel to be missing. If it was offerd i would get it then.

If i had XM then i would get the best of sirius in a heat beat. (Howard Stern rules).

Finally I don’t care one bit for baseball.

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:57:55 +0000

Do a little research first…

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/questions-answered-filling-the-gaps-for-best-of-siriusxm.html#more

Question: Why isn’t the MLB on the Best of XM package for Sirius subscribers?

Answer: We would have liked to provided the MLB for our Sirius subscribers, but have not reached an agreement at this time. We continue to be hopeful that the MLB will be part of the package in the future.

By: John Fleming

John Fleming — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:23:20 +0000

Uh, when did Sirius LOSE the NBA? Was it over the summer? And why didn’t we get informed of this? ALSO, Sirius has an OBLIGATION to make MLB available immediately as many of the Sirius personalities were practically PROMISING that MLB would be included as an option for Sirius.

By: Dave Mackey

Dave Mackey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:59:34 +0000

I have been an XM junkie for almost three years now. It’s in my house, factory installed in both our cars (my Toyota convertible and my wife’s Honda minivan), and soon to be in my toolshed as soon as I can get electric run out there. I didn’t pick XM over Sirius – Bob gave me a radio one Christmas and that was an XM. I came to like XM’s offerings and I guess he picked it because XM has baseball which is my big sports passion. I’m not the least bit interested in Howard Stern, but would probably like some of those Sirius goodies like the NFL and NASCAR… wondering when we can get them on our existing XM rigs?

I think as time goes on, you’re also likely to see more shows “networked” between a channel on XM and a channel on Sirius. The first such show is “Mad Dog Unleashed”, the sports show with Chris Russo that runs weekdays on Sirius 126 and XM 144. That idea I like.