XM radio no longer commercial free


XM radio is now no longer playing uninterrupted music. They are now putting in little ads that I find very annoying. I want music only available for 24/7 that I’m paying for. I will play it at home, then just as I start enjoying the music at what I call a good listening level, the song will end and on comes one of their little announcements about what ever. I just had enough of it, shut it off and put on my own CD’s that has no talking. I find it hard to pay for something that is not what they advertise. We have it in the car and it recently became available through DirecTV which no longer offers the Music Channels that were commercial free. I wrote to complain to both and got automated responses. What ever happened to the human being that would reply when a customer has a concern or ask for what you are paying for.

I hope they get many complaints and maybe they would return to uninterrupted music.

Sorry but I had to vent………..
musical_therapy
I won't subscribe to any radio service. The idea of paying for something which before was free (AM,FM with commercials), vs. satillite (monthly fee plus commercials)is unappetizing at best. It won't be long before the commercial time on satillite consumes most of the programming just as it does on AM/FM. Consumers should protest by canceling their subscriptions in mass and refusing to be a party to such a scheme.
When DirecTV came out with the news of the switch and I decided to wait on making the plunge into satellite radio until I could sample XM - and I'm sure glad I waited. I've now heard XM via DirecTV and Sirius during a trip to NY & back and am sure glad I never signed up. Hafta agree that Music Choice had a much better playlist, too - at least for me. I find the XM equivalents are just flat-out irritating.

The other kinda hard part to admit is that I've also had a broadband connection (for work - yeah, that's the ticket...) and am now suddenly seriously considering just dumping DirecTV and switching to total landline. We'd lose a little (mostly extraneous) programming but the cost would go down. After listening to XM for 3+ weeks I do wonder about how this could be as popular as it seemed?

I want my, I want my Music Choice...
Thanks for your responses ... I was considering a subscription because commercial radio is so bad and I'm starting to get into classical with not much in my collection to choose from yet. I thought it would help me to select musical pieces I like without buying a bunch of music I wont listen to. I have Comcast music channels but you don’t get much of a selection - I thought Serius would fill the void.

WAKE UP SERIUS ... YOU JUST LOST A FUTURE CUSTOMER!!!

Send that to them in an email ...

The Horse
I didn't even know I had Sirius on my Dish programming until a teenager found it. I'm now hooked on "standards" channel(shows my age). On the Jams channel they play the Dead but at night you have to listen to Bill Walton's drug induced rambling-sometimes for 10 minutes- between songs. Elvis channel is cool. "Deep Cuts" plays more obscure songs from various artists- the kind you don't hear on the usual "classics" stations. At least now they put the Christian stations in one group. I could see them dropping the dish music stations and charging us less. I haven't listened to them since I found Sirius. Dan
Ironically, I have Comcast cable with Music Choice.
I love Music Choice, BUT I TOO find that they do alot
of repeating the same song/artist every 4-6 hours.
I DO like the fact that we have a choice like
Siruis and XM, BUT I DON`T have either because
I REFUSE to pay $10-12 a month, WHEN I could
spend that money on a new CD.
I only listen to Music Choice
Area Rock, and sometimes, I listen to
Classic Rock, 80`s and rarly Heavy Metal.
The Metal station USED to be good back in 1996-97
when it was called DCR Digital Cable Radio.
NOW, they play too much srceaming music,
Mudvange, Disturbed crap. I PAID for that service
back then, BECAUSE the regular local radio stations
were still playing that ALT. music crap,
Toad the wet sprocket, Spin Doctors crap, so I
had NO CHOICE! In Chicago, we have
97.9 The Loop, and that`s it. And in Indiana we have
103.9 XRock and that`s it. So, Music Choice is better
than NO CHOICE. YOU`RE better off just buying the
CD`s and ripping them to a CD-R to play in the car!