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strokin13 Enthusiast

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So I thought I'd give the merger a chance... Here is my assessment:

 

Pros:

Better comedy channels

 

Cons:

Lithium is by far inferior to Lucy... and I miss Ethel as well

 

So far, the cons outweigh the pros for me... just my 2 cents

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Yup, realize that it has been brought up a few times, but thought rather than dig up an oldie, I'd add my opinion in a new topic...

 

Maybe XMSirius would get the hint this way, probably not....

 

Anyway, just my opinion on the topic anew...

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So I thought I'd give the merger a chance... Here is my assessment:

 

Pros:

Better comedy channels

 

Cons:

Lithium is by far inferior to Lucy... and I miss Ethel as well

 

So far, the cons outweigh the pros for me... just my 2 cents

 

The company is on it's death bed anyway, I'm hoping it goes under so that they can fix their entire business model:

 

1) The channel lineup -- why have sirius as a weird add-on?

2) Screw Howard and the ridiculous $$ they paid for sports -- the company can redo the contract so that they don't get soaked.

3) Fix the pricing!!!! It's $12.95, no wait, its $10.95 with a coupon, no wait, it's $77 a year if you have a different coupon and complain. Maybe have an a la carte system where people can pay an extra $5 month for toilet humor, otherwise it's $5 for music.

 

Read:http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/19/markets/thebuzz/index.htm

pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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So I thought I'd give the merger a chance... Here is my assessment:

 

Pros:

Better comedy channels

 

Cons:

Lithium is by far inferior to Lucy... and I miss Ethel as well

 

So far, the cons outweigh the pros for me... just my 2 cents

 

The company is on it's death bed anyway, I'm hoping it goes under so that they can fix their entire business model:

 

1) The channel lineup -- why have sirius as a weird add-on?

2) Screw Howard and the ridiculous $$ they paid for sports -- the company can redo the contract so that they don't get soaked.

3) Fix the pricing!!!! It's $12.95, no wait, its $10.95 with a coupon, no wait, it's $77 a year if you have a different coupon and complain. Maybe have an a la carte system where people can pay an extra $5 month for toilet humor, otherwise it's $5 for music.

 

Read:http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/19/markets/thebuzz/index.htm

 

 

The base annual fee for the privilege of using the system should be in my opinion $ 25. If somebody wants to listen to $ 100 million base salary/year + multi million dollar bonuses Howard Stern and enjoy his humorless, profanity laced monologue, it's should be "only" $ 100/year extra.

 

Let's see how long will this character continue getting this kind of money if this scheme is implemented.

nfisherman Enthusiast

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I decided to go with XM because Sirius had paid a ridiculous amount of money for that idiot, Howard Stern. Shortly after I signed up, XM paid about as much money for another idiot, Oprah Winfrey. Now that they've merged, I figure that I'm probably paying $2 or $3/month for these two worthless channels.

fbachman Senior Enthusiast

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I decided to go with XM because Sirius had paid a ridiculous amount of money for that idiot, Howard Stern. Shortly after I signed up, XM paid about as much money for another idiot, Oprah Winfrey. Now that they've merged, I figure that I'm probably paying $2 or $3/month for these two worthless channels.

 

I called and had them enable content blocking on the Oprah channel for me...

 

The agent's reaction was priceless... :cheers:

 

it's my passive-aggressive streak in lodging a complaint.

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