“Best Of” Programming Debuts On Sirius XM
Now for the first time, you can add XM channels to your SIRIUS subscription. Add “The Best of XM” on SIRIUS and get Oprah & Friends, Opie & Anthony, NHL and NBA games, the 24/7 NHL Home Ice Channel, The PGA TOUR Network, college sports, and XM Public Radio. The Best Radio on Radio™ just got better.
Oprah & Friends Channel 195 – Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Dr. Oz and more help you live your best life on Oprah & Friends.
NBA Channels/College Sports Channels 211-220 – Hear regular season NBA Games, the Playoffs and the Finals. / Games from the top college conferences, including Pac-10, SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East and ACC.
NHL Home Ice Channel 208 – NHL Home Ice, the world’s first hockey channel, delivers a high energy mix of information and entertainment. The on-ice leader for fans across North America with up-to-the-second news and analysis.
The PGA Tour Network Channel 209 – All PGA TOUR events, the British Open and more, including golf news, tournament scores, and player highlights.
XM Public Radio Channel 196 – Insightful, entertaining, and provocative Public Radio programming, including award-winning and exclusive shows from Bob Edwards.
The Virius! Channel 197 – Beware…this is radio like you’ve never heard it before. Irreverent, uncensored, so good you won’t want to stop listening. Opie and Anthony in the morning and Ron and Fez in the afternoon. It’s addictive, it’s viral….it’s The VIRUS.
XM Site being updated at press time!
got my best of, FINALLY
Patience grasshoppers.
I’m watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann on CNBC right now…..MAN….Sara Palin should STOP doing interviews. LOL. Yikes.
Actually on second thought…she should KEEP on giving them. I NEED to laugh. Sirius is bringing me down.
Anyone gonna watch the VP debate Thursday? Now THAT is going to be fun. I’m gonna stop having a pity party and have a Palin party instead. Invite some friends over. Lots of alcohol and drinking games. Every time Palin flubs a line, ya gotta take a shot.
Gonna be shitfaced 5 minutes into the debate I know it.
XM hasn’t fully updated their site for “Best of”. They show the channels, but no advertisement of it like Sirius for XM. I guess by tomorrow.
And where is XM’s ala cart receiver for Oct 6th ?
How many of the 19 million Sirius and XM subs do you think are going to go for the “Best Of” option for an extra $4.99 s month?
If 4 million of them do…that’ll be $78,000,000 extra dollars by the time the Feb debt is due.
Not quite $300,000,000….but between that, the cash on hand and some credit….
OH! WHO AM I KIDDING?
Friggin…
I’m imagining Mel at the conference call…
“Shareholders… times are tough. We’ve been through a lot, the share price has been beaten down and we’re on the brink of bankruptcy. But… today, I have some great news!
I just saved a boat load on my auto insurance!”
Yes, we’re down to cliche’s for laughs…
I’m with you on the Palin drinking game. I’ll be playing along!
Lol Winagain.
Man….all I know is that Mel should be BANNED from ANY attempts at humor or joking until the debt is refinanced. If all the shareholders voted on that, it’d be UNANIMOUS.
What an incredible product though and even better now with cross content ! I’d take out a loan to put on this stock at 50 cents if I thought it would go to 2.50 or at least thought it would not go Belly UP.
Friggin Would you pleeeease stop beating around the bush and just tell us how you really feel! You are absoulutely killing us!!! But we need it right now. Look on the bright side. If your canidate gets elected…your mortgage will be forgiven, free college for your kids, cheap govt healthcare, more $$$$ for welfare, and don’t forget the extra 1000 bucks he’s promising. Life won’t be so bad!!! Also, at least you won’t have to pay the 28% capital gains tax your guy wants the idiots that actually profit in this F…ing game. hang in there man. We are all in this together. Friggin you need to bale more water from your side of the boat! Where’s the guys pumping us up tonight. This blog is killing me!
I’m just venting thats all. It’s healthy every now and then. Especially for us Sirius shareholders. And most of the time I try to do it with a sense of humor. MOST of the time. Other times the frustration of being stuck in this stock and all the things that have happened is just too much and I unleash a long bitter tirade.
Anyway…on the brighter side, Bush signed that 25 Billion loan for the Auto industry today. Don’t know what if any positive effect it’ll have on Sirius. But at least it’s something.
And “JustSirius”….yeah….Obama is my guy….but I just KNOW my luck, and Sirius won’t POP until AFTER he is sworn in…and I’ll HAVE TO PAY THAT 28% tax. LOL. How can it turn out any other way? If they don’t go bankrupt….that is what will happen. 🙂
Friggin
Since Bush is in the giving mood…Maybe we need to request a Sirius loan to the tune of 1 billion or so. Or maybe even Obama will do it. He’s planning on giving away the farm anyway. For this one instance, I really don’t mind paying 28% either!!
BTW-other blogs citing jammed phone lines trying to get Best Of.
Need a good laugh…go to Motley Fool article on 20 to1 reverse split and read the comments. Author got his ass kicked. Funny as hell!!!
Friggin
Just one more thing… if this doesn’t work out for you. I think most of would pay to see your antics on stage. We only get to read your shit. The inflection changes…the arm waving…giving Mel the finger about 1500 times each performance…I’d pay(if I have anything left after this cluster F$%*&^@)
Keep us LOL. We will probably need your stuff to help us with our sanity near term!!
Mel Karmazin may have lied to shareholders and gotten away with it . . . the FBI, however, will not be so forgiving nor “unsophisticated” . . . I think the “over-subscribed” financing may have done ya in Mel. That one’s gonna be a tough sell under oath . . . and ya can forget hiding the personal assets in your family’s name too.
Friggen: Please never return to that poster who says I’m going to wait until February ever again. Your way to valuable in this mode, in fact truly we should be adding you to the “Best Of”.
great post Winagain35, that is exactly how I feel.
I have noticed a few things about the strategy Sirius is taking since th merger to help with churn & cash flow.
1) They sent a notice in the mail that states that they will automatically renew credit card subscriptions when term of subscription is due to expire, without further notice.
2) Looking at the way the websites are now operating, they are tailored to bring in the cash up front, by getting the full year charged to your card in one shot vs monthly. I did not have a choice when going threw the process. I’m sure their is a way, specially by doing it by phone, but this is a slick way of getting full year & multi-year renewals and up front $.
3) I think XM is doing a similar thing from what I can see. Also XM offering 1st 3 months of Sirius Best of free, then you get charged for 6 month, 1 year, whatever you choose. Another good way to entice XM subs to get Howard Stern, NFL, etc and lock them in again longer term with increase in cash starting in 3 months.
Also noticed a few other things. XM offerring 6.99 music only & Sirius is not. Sirius offering Ala Cart right now and XM not yet.
Anyway, they seem to have done some unique things that are subtle, but may work in getting the cash flow to pop in coming months.
Anyone else see this, agree ?
A shareholders conference? That’s what we need. Afterall, it has been decades since Mt. St. Helens. Above, I mention that I sent a nastygram to IR. It was about hanging investors out to dry. Checked my email a moment ago. Still no response from IR, like they are eager to reply to another disappointed investor. Also above the comments about Sirius XM’s silence and the company being a ship with no captain. That is the way it appears. Lack of communication says tons about the company and its leadership. Mel had better get a megaphone and start using it to shore up confidence. And regarding one more comment from above, about patience. I have it but its really being pressured … kind of like lava under Mt. St. Helen’s currently growing dome. Better get some good news soon and a pop along with it. If Mel allows the common to tank entirely then my guess is there will be a backlash on the sub side among burned longs. (And friggen, ditto to others’ comments above about your value. Humor is powerful, especially among the weary. Long ago in the infantry I was on a nighttime patrol. My team had been up for three days with virtually zero sleep. Our point man was exhausted and walked right into a 500-pound bomb crater that was half filled with rain water. When he tumbled into the pool you should have heard him explode. Most creative use of curse words I ever heard–to this day. Upon seeing what happened, the rest of us completely lost it. As stressed as we were, it was the funniest thing and lifted our spirits. We howled about it for six months. Your humor is having a similar effect on us SIRI longs. Keep it up. Win, lose or draw, maybe in the weeks and months to come we will all be able to look back and laugh at this mess.)
Where is the marketing? Have not seen a commercial or anything promoting the Oct 6th “best of”. HAVE THEY GIVEN UP! I’m wondering if they are looking at Wallstreet and not Mainstreet. I can’t help but to think that no one w/ guts is at the wheel. They won the merger and should be screaming in the publics ear about this as a victory and turn on the 20million idle radios on for a short period of time to bring these listeners back as part of the Oct 6th “best of”. Something is starting to stink. Mel, have you been swimming in cold water, because I think your’e suffering from shrinkage. Hope I’m wrong and you something big planned in the very near future.
Doh! no MLB on the ‘best of xm package’
Happy October 1st! Somebody scare the shit of out this stock price and make it jump!
out of. Boo!
October has historically when Sirius would start to move higher, but we’ll see.
Maybe they will make an official announcement that Best of & Ala Cart is launched & it will hopefully gain some momentum.
OK MEL….LISTEN UP!
Where is the TV commercial for the NEW Sirius XM?
I know the interoperable radios are not going to be available for awhile…but WHERE is the commercial promoting the NEW BEST OF PROMO? The a la carte radios?
You’ve been merged for months now and the launch of the BEST OF PROMO starts in 5 FRIGGIN DAYS!!!
Football season is 5 weeks old already. MAD DOG has been on air for 2 weeks already! The World Series is about to start soon!
WHERE IS THE AWESOME TV spot promoting all this??? Getting the word out there to the masses that there is a NEW RADIO GIANT out there??
Don’t tell me you can’t come up with a creative campaign like the Apple commercials!
You’ve got a WEALTH of TALENT AND CONTENT…..USE THEM!!!!
Imagine all the top music artists that have shows on Sirius/XM making cameos in the commercial.
Also Howard, Oprah, Martha Stewart, Football stars, Baseball stars, Nascar…ON AND ON!
The possibilities are endless.
MAKE IT COOL to have Sat Radio. Explain that the TWO are one now with the BEST OF….you dont have to wait for interoperable radios!
Take the FRIGGIN WIND out of internet radio companies like Pandora and Rhapsody who have been advertising on tv lately! SHOW the public that you are so much COOLER AND BETTER THAN THEM….because you can listen to Sirius XM EVERYWHERE. In your car. On your computer. On your cell phone.
EXPLAIN and SHOW how LACKING the internet radio companies are because they don’t have the LIVE music or Sports that you do. Or the amount of content.
IT’s NOT HARD!!!
You could come up with a KICK ASS TV CAMPAIGN that makes it clear there is only ONE choice for the future of radio….SIRIUS XM!!!
COME ON MEL!!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR???
Don’t WAIT until the FRIGGIN SUPER BOWL to air a commercial!! NOW is the time to plant the seed. Do you realize how much you can ingrain your product into the consciousness of the American public by January?
IMAGINE HOW MANY MORE SUBS YOU’LL ADD by the time the FEB debt is due if you DO THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I can picture several different types of commercials. Some that feature ALL your content. And others that are targeted for specific groups like SPORTS or Music…or TALK.
Nab a star like Brett Favre to promote FOOTBALL season on the BEST OF.
BE CREATIVE DAMNIT!!!!
Gimme a HD video camera and a Mac computer and I’ll shoot and edit one for you numb nuts!
It ain’t hard.
Wheres the passion????
You can’t AFFORD NOT to do this.
You want to REALLY blow out the 4th Q and kick off the 1st Q kicking MAJOR FUCKING ASS????
THEN DO THIS NOW!
Ok…rant over.
Friggin,
I’m long Sirius and just wanted to thank you.
We are all pretty much in the same boat.
Thanks for venting : D
It saved me the time of posting because you said it all.
You have a way with words that had my wife and I laughing so hard it made another dead day of lows a little brighter.
I’m starting to believe that Mel was sent to Sirius to take down the company by NAB.
Sirius on it’s own (in my opinion) would not be in this position.
17 months was plenty of time for Mel to have aces in his hand to deal with any issues we are now facing.
All the cards in XM hand were face up before the merger for all of us to see.
I honestly can not accept any exuse from Mel regarding failure regarding Sirius he is far to good of a business man and nothing with these companies should have been a surprise to him.
Think about this.
Mel steps in merges the companies ( so he could take them both down in one shot ) and gets double the compensation from NAB.
The shares he bought were to cover his ass with shareholders so he could later state he lost money too.
The money he bought shares with is totally covered by NAB.
LOL
OMG listen to me : (
Sirius LONG But bring a tank of oxygen if the ship sinks
Hmmmmmm make that Friggin laughing gas !!!!!!
Thanks again Friggin
Friggin, good story telling. I said the same exact thing to my wife. Except I thought it would be CBS that sent him to do the job. Ok let’s stop. Any conspiracy to BK the CO. would be tracable so I highly doubt it. It takes one guy on the inside to spill the beans and Mel goes to prison. I don’t think a man of his net worth would ever take a risk of that nature. Now let’s get back to business.
Are you guys kidding I was told that out of my 4 cars all from 2006 to 2008 I cant get the best of package on any of them? just my Stilletto? Bullshit.. The stupid idiot at customer service said “we are still not totally familiar with it”….I asked “does Mel NOT have Orientation about new services” he stuttered and said “it just came out today” I replied. SIR IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR SELLING THE PRESS RELEASE SHOULD NOT HAVE COME OUT….I have to believe that they just announced it prematurely so that the FCC would get of their asses.
Yeah I agree Mike. I am as frustrated as everyone, but I think that conspiracy theories that Mel is working for the NAB and went thru all those congressional hearings for 17 months to merge with XM only to destroy both is as FAR FETCHED and ABSURD as those that feel 9/11 was an inside job and that the towers were brought down with a controlled demolition. Puh-Lease.
I just feel Mel is dropping the Ball here in some ways. I still have faith and love the product, and I KNOW the credit market SUCKS right now….BUT there are things that CAN be done while waiting for the refinancing deal….LIKE the tv campaign I mentioned above. Among many other ideas that equally passionate shareholders have suggested here on Sirius Buzz.
Hey Mike, have you checked out Orbitcast website? They talk about alot of people activating the Best Of. Maybe that will help?
Anyway…good luck.
Ciao
LOL GUYS
I was just joking.
: D
I just activated the XM in my car with the Best of package and I am getting Stern and the NFL Network clear as day.
I thought Brandon or Tyler would have made a few comments here. Or had writen another artical by now.
I guess they need a breath of fresh air too.
I know WJDJFD….I wasn’t talking about you.
Alot of it is just frustration. I truly believe that we are all secretly rooting for Mel to surprise us all.
It’s just been Brutal.
Of course I’m pissed about the stock price…but I’d be ALOT less upset if Mel was doing EVERYTHING he could…and sometimes it seems like he ain’t.
I know he’s a busy guy with alot on his plate. But he could REALLY benefit from listening to the passion of us shareholders. Alot of good ideas in here if you can filter out the vitriol.
lol.
anyway…peace out for now.
Agreed, the silence is deadly
Mike I had picked up the Apple 3G
and it took me 9 hours to get it activated.
So Sirius isn’t the only company that has had activation issues.
The good news is that people are posting success.
Mike:
I couldn’t get best of in my car either. It’s a 2005 Jeep. But I was told that newer models should be able to receive the best of programming. I called Investor Relations yesterday to question them about it, and got two calls back – one from customer service offering to send me a free plug in play radio and one from Paul Blalock at IR telling me that the older legacy receivers won’t be able to get the added programming, but that new models will. So I’m surprised that you have a 2008 vehicle that isn’t compatible?? It may be worth another call, since yesterday there seemed to be a lot of confusion.
I got the lifetime ‘best of XM package’, it took the rep in the Dominican 1hour and 15 minutes to process it, she said they were not trained
I activated my XM Inno portable with the Best of Sirius this morning. It took me awhile to get through on the phone, but once I got through it was quick with no problem. I could of done it online, but I was having problems getting online this morning. The rep I talked to said that they were swamped with calls. I think it’s smart the way they released the packages before the official launch, to spread out the flood of calls a bit….
Many shareholders in other companies took the boar and the chair out of the window.
Others, like yahoo shareholders pressed the board to communicate to them
Do shareholders of SiriusXM have any say?
Could they ask for a shareholder meeting?
Is there any Law firm in NY city willing to take them over
by the way on CNBC this AM, a CEO of a comapny lend the company > $ 200 mil to keep going
MEL show me the F****** money
Slowwwwww…down……
Keep in mind everyone, that the best of won’t officially debut until October 6th…
Brandons right. It will get easier to register. When I bought my iPhone it was the same way. Also from what im reading on the net theres seems to be a great deal of interest in the Best Of. People cant get through by phone and the SiriusXM sites seem slow from what people are saying.Good and bad i guess. Im sure they will ramp it up in the coming days
Brandon as much as I agree with you….I gotta say this time you are wrong. Sirius must have antincipated phone calls with people expressing interest in the best of package. I would have certainly been more professional for the dork (customer service agent) to have said “as of right now your 07′ Audi Q7 or 08 Mini are not ready to receive the signal” or anything to that nature…Instead it was a cold non experienced “its not available for your kind of cars….I was fuming. It reminded me when I went to New York the 2nd week the Stilleto came out…going to BB and seeing it on the table with an “aquiring signal” sign flashing and nobody knew how to work it…..it had ear muffs that were not even sirius branded. Sorry man its just crazy that they are never ready.
Ok I finally got to the bottom of it. I just got off the phone with a rep at sirius thats on top of things. The subscriptions must take off at the same time…meaning that My BMW comes with a one year pre paid sub ok? now I’m 4 months into that sub so in essence Sirius cannot syncronize the best of xm into my sirius unless I start my original subscription over again thus loosing my remaining 8 months of pre paid service. He suggested I wait a couple of weeks as they are really making changes on a daily basis. I replied “Ok i will wait the couple of weeks only if you are sure you sirius will still be in business. He laughed his ass off. Then I asked if there many people working and he replied… “they are hiring people like crazy….whatever that means
Older sirius radios uncompatible with the new xm add on package
Unfortunately many of the very first Sirius 12 volt powered radios released and the foundation of the long term Sirius loyal subscriber base are the ones who will have to do without the Best of XM package. Here is a partial list of radios that wont get the XM channels.
Sportster SP-R1
Sportster Replay SP-TK2 ( first 2 years of release) If you get Hardcore sports 98 on your radio you should be good for the Xm add on (call customer service)
Orbiter SR4000 DISH SR200 BRIX STREAMER
All Audiovox and Jensen plug & play radios
Most Sirius One SV1 radios.
STARMATE ST1 & ST1R
STARMATE ST2 & ST2R & XACT XTR8 Replay ( first 2 years of release) If you get Hardcore sports 98 on your radio you should be good for the Xm add on (call customer service)
Xact XTR1 & XTR2
Xact XTR3 Visor radios
SO here is the way Sirius is slowly retiring the radios they got fined by the FCC for due to the Strong Fm transmitter design that were in these radios.
If you want the Best of XM add on package you have to get a new radio.
Odd thing here is all Xm radios that I know of are compatible with the BEST of Siruis add on package and will NOT require an upgrade whatsoever.