Confusion: Sirius XM fumbles channel switchover
Posted by Ginny on November 14, 2008
Assalamu alaikum, I agree with this entirely…
They really should have done a better job of communicating with people. Perhaps then people would have been prepared for the change. Not to talk of some of the channels they got rid of… The Rhyme/Backspin? Three out of four of the Spanish channels? Not to mention the fact that there’s still no world music channels on there. Unless you want to listen online, which if I’m going to do that, why have sattelite radio in the first place.
Personally, the music selections don’t bother me too much, and I’m really not as upset as many of the Orbitcast commentors are. The Rhyme was the only channel I really miss, and I think they could do a better job of getting rid of some of the more redundant channels, however, I also think that none of this is written in stone, I’m sure that they’ll do some tweaking of the lineup, as well as the playlists of the various channels.
I’m not to the point of cancelling my subscription as short of Chicago radio, nothing beats sattelite radio, with the selection and variety of programming that you just can’t normally get on local radio.
I’ve been hearing people recommending Slacker Radio (the website of which is extremely inaccessible, so that’s out of the question for me), or HD Radio, which I’ll have to check out.
However, not every station broadcasts in HD, and I’m still not sure if you’d get the same variety you’d get with sattelite radio. But anything is better than having sattelite radio go under totally, which could very well happen, especially with the economy being the way that it is now.
