Siriusly disguested... WHERE IS MY MUSIC?!

OMG...

I **just** bought a new car -- a car **specifically** from a manufacturer that offers Sirius or XM as a choice.

Why?

Because I loved Sirius' music for the last four years.

Today, the **MORNING AFTER I TAKE DELIVERY AND PROGRAM ALL MY FAVORITE STATIONS BACK IN** I see "Invalid channel"...

SIX OF EIGHT OF MY STATIONS ARE NOW GONE!

I am beside myself with anger!!! This is just unbelievable!!!

I thought "Well, I'll switch to XM... the dealer can do a tuner swap for me..." So I check the XM channel lineup... SAME MISERABLE SITUATION!

There is NO REASON for me to have this service anymore after almost five years. I am on a yearly subscription and it ends in December. No way I am renewing.

WASN'T THE MERGER SUPPOSED TO GIVE ME CHOICE?!

what channels did you lose that have you concerned. Which two remained?

I'm curious too....


For me it is a complete disaster - they got rid of all of my favorite channels!!!!!!!!!!


1 - Beyond Jazz - modern jazz/fusion

2 - POTUS - It is remaining in name only. It will suck now that they have fired the program director and host, Scott Walterman - along with the rest of the hosts and staff. It's just going to be a bunch of automated news and C-SPAN feeds with some podcasts thrown in. Scott Walterman created POTUS and was the best thing about it.....

3 - Fine Tuning - eclectic

4 - Chrome - disco

5 - XMX - no more Artist Confidential?

6 - The Rhyme - old school break beat

7- BBC - the Full feed (they have replaced it with the Sirius NEWS UPDATE Only feed)

8 - XM Comedy

9 - Fungus - punk/ska/electric surf

10 - AudioVisions (Spa sucks, but at least they will carry the Hearts of Space program)

12 - Cinemagic

All gone!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are some other programming changes I don't like either......

Sirius/XM management sucks for taking away all of my favorite channels.......

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Originally Posted by Demian

I'm curious too....

For me it is a complete disaster - they got rid of all of my favorite channels!!!!!!!!!!

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All gone!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are some other programming changes I don't like either......

Sirius/XM management sucks for taking away all of my favorite channels.......

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To name a few...

36 The Beat
37 Strobe
39 Boombox
43 Backspin

Those are my "drive time" stations... I listen to them the most. To hell with XM's "BMP" station... I love the channel lineups for their entire electronic/dance section now: "Club hits" and "Mainstream dance"... GREAT! Now that's what I call choice!

I lost my xm comedy (channel 150) but when I got in my car
This morning, raw dog (I think) had the same djs and
Advertising thesame specials as my old comedy channel.

I encourage everyone to listen to a few channels to see if
there is something you are missing that was moved elsewhere
and placed under a new name.

YOU GOT OT LOOK AROUND YOUR CHANNELS ARE ON A DIFFERANT CHANNEL SAME STUFF.. AND THE BREAK BEATS/JAZZ/DISCO... DAMN DUDE:eek:

Let's not slam the new channels (and our own investment) for the world to see!!! Like the gents above mentioned, look around and you will find something similar or better than before.

As also mentioned above, write Sirius with the negatives or wish lists, let's not batter the stock and service on our own forum. Goldman/Wienke and Cramer have done a good enough job of that!!!!!!!!

The bright side is always somewhere,
Whynot

Whynot: I honestly believe that in order to make an informed decision on which stock to invest in, you need to know the good AND the bad. As a smarter man than I once said: "Invest in what you know, and invest in what you love." Many of the subscribers got into Sirius or XM because they were investors, and many others (like myself) got into the investment because they were subscribers. If Sirius XM starts pissing off subscribers, they may also be pissing off investors... and by loosing subscribers, you piss off even more investors. It is a fine line to walk. Time will tell if they have fallen or not.

That being said, I am happy with my alternative that I have found, as it is basically the same channel with a new name. I havent listened much to other channels to see how they are doing. I will probably be doing that this weekend.

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Originally Posted by deaconboogie

To name a few...

36 The Beat
37 Strobe
39 Boombox
43 Backspin

Those are my "drive time" stations... I listen to them the most. To hell with XM's "BMP" station... I love the channel lineups for their entire electronic/dance section now: "Club hits" and "Mainstream dance"... GREAT! Now that's what I call choice!

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I'm with you on this, shocked they goy rid of Strobe, Backspin. I was never that into Boombox, the Beat was good at times, but very repetitive.

But not the Strobe & Backspin !

I bet we'll find other stations that are a big positive, but this is disappointing to me, but maybe I'll expand my horizen a bit now ?

Newman/SXMInvestor- I fully understand where you are coming from and thank you for your advice. I am a subscriber and investor as well.

With no hesistance, I can say that my investment dollars mean a HELL of a lot more to me than the service at this junction. My statement above was meant to relax folks who have a sort of sticker shock about the new channels and selections.

As I mentioned in earlier blogs.....I do know a bit about SIRI/XM in a way that a lot of folks on this forum do not and be certain that they took great consideration in the channel changes they made, are ready for the customer concerns which will arise and are willing to work as hard as they can to make things right for both the investor and the subscriber. They are also fully cognizant of the fact that the investor and subscriber are usually one in the same.

It's just inititial shock folks.....everyone will find what they want in time.

Cheers,
Whynot

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Originally Posted by Whynot

Newman/SXMInvestor- I fully understand where you are coming from and thank you for your advice. I am a subscriber and investor as well.

With no hesistance, I can say that my investment dollars mean a HELL of a lot more to me than the service at this junction. My statement above was meant to relax folks who have a sort of sticker shock about the new channels and selections.

As I mentioned in earlier blogs.....I do know a bit about SIRI/XM in a way that a lot of folks on this forum do not and be certain that they took great consideration in the channel changes they made, are ready for the customer concerns which will arise and are willing to work as hard as they can to make things right for both the investor and the subscriber. They are also fully cognizant of the fact that the investor and subscriber are usually one in the same.

It's just inititial shock folks.....everyone will find what they want in time.

Cheers,
Whynot

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I'm really liking POP2K and starting to get past it already, but hope they bring back my old skool stations Strobe & Backspin. It looks like to me that they were trying to be fair to both services, but some of the XM stations are just not interchangeable and others might be better. Not sure what metric they used to make the decisions.

I'm cancelling. Faction is bullshit, they took my punk away, and I'm hawking all my Sirius radio equipment to the highest bidder.

**** the man, always stepping on punk just like they have for generations.

The loss of Boombox and Backspin is devastating. We subscribe to Sirius to get this variety and to hear things you'd never hear elsewhere. Electronic music lovers got the hose with this new channel lineup. I noticed the XM people lost the system. To top it off 39 is now pop2k?!?!?! This is such a slap in the face! Why don’t I just turn on FM?

Guys please get together Login to your Sirius account, click help and then send customer service an email. I'm very disappointed. Some of the other changes are positive, but cutting channels that play music you cant hear elsewhere? This is going against the fundamentals of Satellite radio. Even the fools are not happy:

http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...-the-line.aspx

None of the stations I typically listen to changed... whew.
I did notice this morning as I was driving to work that they brought back XMU. I had heard that this was one of the stations being removed and replaced with Sirius Underground. There was quite a fuss about it. Perhaps the company listened, because now it's SiriusXMU.
My point is - if there is enough support to bring something back, the company will probably listen.

I hear you!! I wouldn't say I'm disgusted but I'm Siriusly disappointed.

Every morning I'd turn on my Sirius radio to the Bluegrass station. Yesterday, I was surprised to find that I was listening to an entirely different Bluegrass station with a different DJ. The music is just NOT the same along with the DJ. So I've switched to another kind of music.

We chose Sirius over XM because of our music preferences. XM have now taken over alot of Sirius channels. Complete bull!!! Will certainly think twice about renewing our subscription next year.

MusicGal: XM has taken over a lot of Sirius channels? Perhaps you should really evaluate the channel lineups. I am an XM subscriber, and a LOT of XM channels ahve disappeared and been replaced by Sirius channels.

What would be the current programming channel equivalent to Boombox?

So far NONE of the programming channels match up to Boombox and I'm thinking the other channels that were lost (Backsping, jazz something..) have no generally acceptable equivalent either.

I will cancel my multiple subscriptions in the near future if Boombox (or a channel with the same programming) is not returned.

Thanks Newman for that info. I've checked the XM programming and it's the same channel. Even if it had been transferred to XM, I wouldn't go to all that expense. We have two radios; one in my hubby's truck and one that get's taken back and forth from my car to the house(had to purchase the indoor kit separately). Plus, we've already had to replace a couple because they were malfunctionning and of course, the warranty was over.

Besides this latest crap, I love my radio but the expense of it all has been a bit much.

Sent this as an email to XM/SIRIUS
I am disappointed by XM/SIRIUS's choice to restructure xm comedy 150. That is the channel that I left my radio on and I looked forward to driving my car. I ALWAYS had a good laugh while listening. Now...its changed. The standups that are chosen now are weak. AND i was listening at about 3ish today, Sun Nov 16, 2008, I actually heard bleeping!!! This is supposed to be unsensored comedy. where is sonny Fox? Finally please stop REMINDING me that I am listening to the RawDog after every comedian...its annoying. All of these complaints are about xm RawDog alone, the switch up of all the other channels has many people miffed off. In one forum "if i wanted to listen to top 40 all the time I'd listen to rergional radio." In short XM/SIRIUS, give ME the choice of either xm or SIRIUS.