Sirius XM Makes Biggest Mistake of the New Year
Those who were excited about Bubba The Love Sponge returning to Sirius XM for his new two year deal, tuned in today only to be unbelievably disappointed. No longer will the LOYAL fans be able to hear Bubba’s raw and uncut radio show on Howard 101, instead, the once great show has been replaced by a replay of his watered down morning drive terrestrial radio broadcast.
After months of wondering, fans were finally assured that The Bubba The Love Sponge show would be returning to the Sirius XM airwaves January 5th by the likes of Scott Greenstien, Howard Stern, and Bubba himself. Why would not one of them mention something as important as the terms of this new deal? Looks like the joke is on us.
Why Sirius XM thinks that this is OK and that their subscribers will pay for non exclusive content that they can just as easily get for free is totally beyond me… let the call center storm begin. As a matter of fact, lets digg it, and make sure that the world knows that Sirius XM is now just replaying terrestrial radio.
Lets give it a week–Is he on vacation? A repeat perhaps? Maybe a feed problem? Im sure we will find out the story shortly but lets not jump to conclusions this fast(Im not a huge listener of Bubba but that would be a rather stupid move on Sirius part–You might as let him go then)
SiriusXm call center is about to explode if this is true. There is no way people are going to pay
for filtered content. Not going to happen.
He might still be on break or something as gary has said. I dont know. What i do know is siriusXm screwing with the music channels made alot of people mad, Now this??
Can they afford to keep doing stupid things like this?
Give it a week? Its a replay of the morning show complete with bleep censors. Tune in and listen for yourself.
A broken bleep inhibitor perhaps…? 😉
I agree with Gary on waiting for some sort of official announcement before shouting “Fire!”
hes been doing the same thing for a while now that i know of he does his morning for reg radio then does his sirius show which is a complete difference, he must be on vacation.. because a while ago he was talking about having to do 2 shows in a day because someone called in talking about the situation..
This is quite possible a replay as they have things to do.
I feel cheated and abused at this point, feel Bubba has/had a better program than Howard have been a fan since he came to Philly.
The wife has also told me to calm down as well.
Still, this article is not a corporate release, but a guys opinion.
Tuesday or Friday will tell the tale.
Bubba does have a good show…. but lets not get carried away and compare him to Howard Stern The KING of ALL media… Howards Celebrity Interviews alone are some of the greatest EVER 2nd to none….Nobody interviews anybody better and thats fact…
This is not opinion, this is a fact. There will be a live uncensored show on Friday and totally watered down terrestrial radio the rest of the week.
Most Likely their updating his Sirius Studios
He doesn’t work from the Sirius Studios, he has his own studio.
charles,
where’s your source?
did they mention it on the show?
how do you know this?
once does not make a rule….
I have a very credible and reliable source.
charles knows brent he was on the radio show,this sucks if true
is this because off so many crybabies called cancelation bluff so they gave us bubba cooked not raw
Never cared much for Bubbba mostly Howard for me. If this is true and there was a cost savings associated with this without too much revenue loss to offset the programming savings then I’m all for it.
You’re “all for” censoring Howard Sterns channel? Is that why you pay a premium for this service? You don’t think this is a horrible precedent?
Why buy the cow when you can get the watered down milk for less.
Plus, Bubba manipulated a bunch of listeners to complain, so he can get paid by Sirius and work WAY fewer hours. Will Brent update you on the financials of the deal? Probably NOT. Well played, well played indeed!
Besides Tampa is their only market with top ratings.
Don’t let your love for the show cloud your vision, especially since you don’t know the price tag.
He is actually expanding into more terrestrial markets… as of today. So, he must be doing something right.
This has nothing to do with my love for the show. They are setting a horrible precedent and have made a very poor business decision for the company.
If they paid $1 that was $1 to much IMO. If these were the terms, I would have left them at the table. I would rather not have this censored regurgitated terrestrial replay on Sirius XM at all. Dump the show all together.
Do you really think that this is Sirius’ biggest mistake of the year?
I don’t think so…
Really? 5 days in and you can think of a bigger mistake? They are playing censored non unique content on a service that people pay for. You think that is good for business? You think this is going to be good PR? Give the call center a call and talk to them about how many calls they are getting. I did and they are going out of their way to lie and soften the blow.
Hey, Don’t worry. Bubba can always go to the competition. If Sirius doesn’t want to play ball, then he can always go to XM and take his subscribers with him…. Oh! Yeah! I forgot. There is no longer XM or a suitable competitor for Sirius XM, because there is only ONE SDARS service. The merger that everyone here opined for, and received, closed that option.
But that can’t be right.. After all.. Everyone pointed out the countless options to SDARS.
Like….
IPOD’s,
Internet Radio,
Terrestrial Radio,
HD Radio.
Maybe you guys can get Bubba uncensored Live in your car everyday on your IPOD, or Terrestrial Radio, or Internet Radio??? But, then again.. Maybe not. Oh! Well… Too Bad!!!
Well, this merger thing is certainly working out to be a great thing for the public interests. Remember what they promised you.. Greater choices, and Lower Costs. Hope everyone that opined in favor of the merger is happy… Because, you got exactly what you deserve.
And so it goes,
PCSTEL
Oops, I was thinking in the terms of the last year – not in the last 5 days of this new year……..my bad.
Look at the bright side…If Bubba did in fact screw his listeners like this, He only has 2 years left in the Radio Business, cause this will never be forgotten.
I was just ranting and raving today about rap channel 40 being censored. Just thinking about it now digusts me.
If this new info is true, and they are trying to serve us more censored garbage..well I don’t know what to say.
I am an invester also, but I was a listener first…I have come to terms with my money invested in this company, if the pps goes up, great. But if they take away the uncensored, unapologetic, real, raw, music and talk that I originally subscribed for…then I will be crushed.
The first censored song I heard on channel 40 brought a feeling of embarassment over me. Embarassment for recommending this “awesome experience” to so many people. If this is true..then what do we have left?
There is no such thing as a little censorship in my opinion.
I am not a fan, and really don’t care. Maybe, he was just asking way to much for his raw feed. With the situation at Sirius Xm (fianancials) it really would be totally iresponsible of Mel to sign him for tons of money. However, at this point, you have to wonder if airing his “cooked” show benefits Sirius Xm at all. ( I doubt it!)
“No More Bullshit” my ass!!
Bubba, Stern, Greenstein and Sabien screwed over loyal listeners royally on this on. SIRI did not disclose terms because they knew that people would cancel in mass right before year end and screw with their numbers.
I have been listening to Stern for over 15 years and the fact that he did not disclose this first thing this morning totally reeks. I could not believe my ears when I heard this BS this afternoon.
I spend 40 hours a week commuting and I am pretty close to canceling due to this screw job!
Why do I want to pay for something I can here on the radio. His show is just an average show that I can hear in my own state. It is stupied to pay for that garbge!!!!!!!!!!!!
ya it sucks that everynow and then it might be a watered down show or w/e, we all paid for uncensored material, but i dont see a lot of canceled subs over bubba if for some stupid reason there is. ya this sucks but sat radio even with a censored show has a lot of programming for 12.99 in my opinion it should be a lot higher for the quality programming besides the censoring bubba (becuase hes so damn good right) <<sarcasm..
I cancelled my subscription today. I tried to make it through 3 of the newly formatted shows and just could not do it. The fact that he now takes a commercial break every 15 minutes and that the show is done as a morning show makes me cringe. The news stories are dated by the time we hear them and it just sounds like a bunch of dudes sitting in church bullshitting. I’m out when it comes to satellite radio and I will never be back. Fuck this place it’s bullshit I’m outta hear is the story of my satellite radio days……