Comments on: XM Radio http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/03/22/xm-radio/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:59:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hadar http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/03/22/xm-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-7472 hadar Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:39:50 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=22#comment-7472 Well, Lois is a Country music fanatic, and channel 11 would almost be worth the entire XM radio for us alone. ;-)<br><br>That said, I love comedy, and channel 151 (the clean stuff), and 150 (the dirty stuff) is also a real treat on occasion. We also listen to news (which can be hard to find on regular radio on I95) and traffic.<br><br>Now that I listen online, I've discovered that I'm crazy about their Bluegrass channel, and the Classical one as well (14 and 110).<br>Finally, I don't know about the sleaze factor, though I don't doubt it. This is a gift, and I don't pay for the service, and our friends just renewed us for another 2 years, so they aren't trying to get out of it either. ;-) Well, Lois is a Country music fanatic, and channel 11 would almost be worth the entire XM radio for us alone. ;-)

That said, I love comedy, and channel 151 (the clean stuff), and 150 (the dirty stuff) is also a real treat on occasion. We also listen to news (which can be hard to find on regular radio on I95) and traffic.

Now that I listen online, I’ve discovered that I’m crazy about their Bluegrass channel, and the Classical one as well (14 and 110).
Finally, I don’t know about the sleaze factor, though I don’t doubt it. This is a gift, and I don’t pay for the service, and our friends just renewed us for another 2 years, so they aren’t trying to get out of it either. ;-)

]]> By: hadar http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/03/22/xm-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-49 hadar Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:39:50 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=22#comment-49 Well, Lois is a Country music fanatic, and channel 11 would almost be worth the entire XM radio for us alone. ;-) That said, I love comedy, and channel 151 (the clean stuff), and 150 (the dirty stuff) is also a real treat on occasion. We also listen to news (which can be hard to find on regular radio on I95) and traffic. Now that I listen online, I've discovered that I'm crazy about their Bluegrass channel, and the Classical one as well (14 and 110). Finally, I don't know about the sleaze factor, though I don't doubt it. This is a gift, and I don't pay for the service, and our friends just renewed us for another 2 years, so they aren't trying to get out of it either. ;-) Well, Lois is a Country music fanatic, and channel 11 would almost be worth the entire XM radio for us alone. ;-)

That said, I love comedy, and channel 151 (the clean stuff), and 150 (the dirty stuff) is also a real treat on occasion. We also listen to news (which can be hard to find on regular radio on I95) and traffic.

Now that I listen online, I’ve discovered that I’m crazy about their Bluegrass channel, and the Classical one as well (14 and 110).
Finally, I don’t know about the sleaze factor, though I don’t doubt it. This is a gift, and I don’t pay for the service, and our friends just renewed us for another 2 years, so they aren’t trying to get out of it either. ;-)

]]> By: Jamie Thingelstad http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/03/22/xm-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-7471 Jamie Thingelstad Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:46:57 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=22#comment-7471 Wow! I'm kind of surprised that you like XM Hadar. We had it in our new Honda Odyssey and they gave me a great deal to keep it for a year. I decided to go with it "just cuz". I never found the programming to be to our liking.<br><br>When I tried to cancel the service XM quickly ratcheted up a number of reasons why I wouldn't use their service. They employ every sleazy tactic AOL ever dreamed up to try to keep me from canceling the service. Ugh. Wow! I’m kind of surprised that you like XM Hadar. We had it in our new Honda Odyssey and they gave me a great deal to keep it for a year. I decided to go with it “just cuz”. I never found the programming to be to our liking.

When I tried to cancel the service XM quickly ratcheted up a number of reasons why I wouldn’t use their service. They employ every sleazy tactic AOL ever dreamed up to try to keep me from canceling the service. Ugh.

]]> By: Jamie Thingelstad http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/03/22/xm-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Jamie Thingelstad Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:46:57 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=22#comment-46 Wow! I'm kind of surprised that you like XM Hadar. We had it in our new Honda Odyssey and they gave me a great deal to keep it for a year. I decided to go with it "just cuz". I never found the programming to be to our liking. When I tried to cancel the service XM quickly ratcheted up a number of reasons why I wouldn't use their service. They employ every sleazy tactic AOL ever dreamed up to try to keep me from canceling the service. Ugh. Wow! I’m kind of surprised that you like XM Hadar. We had it in our new Honda Odyssey and they gave me a great deal to keep it for a year. I decided to go with it “just cuz”. I never found the programming to be to our liking.

When I tried to cancel the service XM quickly ratcheted up a number of reasons why I wouldn’t use their service. They employ every sleazy tactic AOL ever dreamed up to try to keep me from canceling the service. Ugh.

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