Sirius Listening to Subscribers - Major Improvements!

Has anyone else here been pleased witht the recent things the company has been doing over the past month? They are listening to subscribers and bringing back certain channels, they are increasing Customer Support (and sending surveys out afterwords with lots of room for you to give detailed feedback) and they are working hard to bring us more receivers. I'm really glad to be a subscriber of Sirius and am excited to see what 2009 brings us. I have a feeling the content will only get better.

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Lets hope they are listening to all the Howard 100/101 fans right now. We don't want to pay for what we can hear for free.

What do you know about new receivers? Is sirius coming out with a new portable...and how long until the interoperable radio comes out?

I think they are listening and I have seen (heard) improvements.

Hip Hop nation was terrible for the first couple days/weeks with the censored songs. That changed quickly after many complaints. But then it moved into a repetitive format which I think they are listening to also and managing to make it better.

But what about these new receivers???

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Originally Posted by SiriusBuzz

Lets hope they are listening to all the Howard 100/101 fans right now. We don't want to pay for what we can hear for free.

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Hey, Blame bubba, he didn't have to resign the contract, but he did! The only person you have to blame is bubba not wanting to do two shows due to him being paid more on the FM side

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Originally Posted by imromo24

What do you know about new receivers? Is sirius coming out with a new portable...and how long until the interoperable radio comes out?

I think they are listening and I have seen (heard) improvements.

Hip Hop nation was terrible for the first couple days/weeks with the censored songs. That changed quickly after many complaints. But then it moved into a repetitive format which I think they are listening to also and managing to make it better.

But what about these new receivers???

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Well, I know that Sirius won't be coming out with a new portable for a while, but the Stiletto 2 is now a much more solid device and a worthy option. Sirius is also offering it's first Ala Carte Radio - the Starmate 5 - which is a solid choice if you choose one of those subscription plans.

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Hey, Blame bubba, he didn't have to resign the contract, but he did! The only person you have to blame is bubba not wanting to do two shows due to him being paid more on the FM side

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I blame Sirius XM for signing this BS deal. They should have simply dropped him. There will be worse press from this re-signing of terrestrial replay then there would have been if they simply dropped him.

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I blame Sirius XM for signing this BS deal. They should have simply dropped him. There will be worse press from this re-signing of terrestrial replay then there would have been if they simply dropped him.

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Yea, but then you have to factor that Sirius was getting calls from Bubba fans saying if they didn't resign him they would cancel. So really Sirius could either resign him to exclusive (they couldn't afford) Do two shows (bubba didn't want to do) or this.

The people who would call in to complain are the same kind of people who would be more prone to throwing a fit and canceling when they learned that Bubba was a watered down replay.

Regardless of Bubba this was a horrible move for the company to censor the channels that advertise as being uncensored.

FYI

Old school hip-hop is coming back to Sirius XM after having been axed from the lineup late last year. Sirius XM says it’s in response to “overwhelming” fan reaction. The company is listening to us!

Yeah, so starting on January 15 you’ll find Backspin back on your radio dial. (The disco channel, The Strobe, is also coming back, but my guess is that not too many of you are into disco.)

One of the Sirius XM higher-ups said that the company will continue to listen to fans regarding content changes, which is the smart thing to do. Sirius XM is hardly in the position to piss off its subscribers.

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The people who would call in to complain are the same kind of people who would be more prone to throwing a fit and canceling when they learned that Bubba was a watered down replay.

Regardless of Bubba this was a horrible move for the company to censor the channels that advertise as being uncensored.

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alot of people are confused, only the shows skits are censored from what i heard everything else is before the 5 second delay

Can you please confirm this. And if it is before the delay, I think it should be a headline on this site declaring that the show is not censored.

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Originally Posted by imromo24

Can you please confirm this. And if it is before the delay, I think it should be a headline on this site declaring that the show is not censored.

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Yes

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/si...nge-shows.html

When Sirius XM Radio renewed its contract with Bubba The Love Sponge for two years, the one thing that both parties failed to mention was the exclusive rights behind the contract.

Fans learned those exact details yesterday when they heard turned on their satellite radios to hear replays from Bubba's FM radio show.
The regular shows that fans heard on Sirius and XM, from 3-7pm ET, are now replaced with syndicated airings from Bubba's terrestrial radio show from Monday through Thursday.

On Friday mornings, Bubba will broadcast exclusively on Sirius XM in his original uncensored format.

The change has been met with a lot of criticism by Bubba The Love Sponge fans, many of whom enjoyed the exclusive and uncensored nature of the show.

For the past year, Bubba has been working the double shift: doing a show on FM in the morning, and again on Sirius in the afternoon. It's a schedule that must be grueling, but still this isn't the option that Bubba says he wanted when he addressed fans' complaints on his website.

So what's next?

I spoke with Sirius XM Radio today, who said that they're working on additional exclusive programming with Bubba that would air on satellite radio only. Details on that will be coming out in the near future.

But for now, many fans feel betrayed.

UPDATE: Orbitcast has learned that the syndicated airings on Sirius XM are actually uncensored versions of the terrestrial radio show. So these aren't identical replays to the FM show, but in fact uncensored versions.

Obviously, any "pre-edited" bits or parodies cannot be aired uncensored, but any language that Bubba and his crew say on the air will be let through on satellite radio. Think of it as being "immune" to the dump button