Thread: Sirius Xm to raise rates another $2

Originally Posted by digiblur

They can stick it.... $15 a month for audio in my car. I'll choose the cheaper options. By the time my sub runs out I'll have my new deck in the car with bluetooth(lots of music on my phone) and a USB port on the front. Can't believe how cheap they are now...

My 2008 Milan came with six months of free Sirius and SYNC. Guess which one I can't live without and which one I can? (Hint: other than the cost of the media, it's free!)

Listening to Sirius in the car always sounded like it was coming through a corrugated tube. Music from SYNC sources sounds as good as the original source, even via the Bluetooth Audio feature on my Motorola RAZR V3xx. Sorry, Sirius, but even at $6/mo, I would pass. At current prices plus another $2/mo? LOL.

Just talked it over with my husband and we are closing our SXM account in July before this latest increase occurs. I've had XM since October 2003. Used to love it. Now, it is a shadow of its former self, but still has some value. But who increases prices while decreasing quality and expects to keep customers? Evidently Mel does. I can live without it.

I now declare XM/Sirius dead. This price increase will hurt them more due to no revenue coming in as sub drop their service.

Their is no real need for sat radio any more as more and more in car internet radio will be offered.

Time to do away with the sat radio forum lets us all pry for the death of sat radio

Hmm, I also wonder how this will affect D* & E*, since they BOTH carry music from SXM...
Wonder if this will force them to consider carrying a different audio service, or will they figure out how to pass this down to the TV subs.

Originally Posted by tomcrown1

I now declare XM/Sirius dead. This price increase will hurt them more due to no revenue coming in as sub drop their service.

Their is no real need for sat radio any more as more and more in car internet radio will be offered.

Time to do away with the sat radio forum lets us all pry for the death of sat radio

Internet radio is still years away. I'm not a believer in this technology.. coverage is too spotty.

Blame congree on this one. The past two years, they were paying 6% of gross revenues as their royalty rate. This year it went up to 6.5%, next year 7%, 7.5% in 2011, and 8% in 2012 when the rates expire.

Sirius XM is not in the financial position to swallow these costs.

I will also be cutting my service off here shortly. I had signed up for that $77 a year deal. I can't remember when I did it. I've been looking out for monthly charges on my credit card bill as when this runs out and it goes to the normal monthly rate I was planning to cut it off anyway. It seems like I hear newer more popular songs on FM radio. That's the first issue I have with it. I don't want to hear a ton of old stuff or a ton of stuff I've never heard of that I've never heard of for a good reason and that's because it sucks.

The few stations as I mean a few as there are only 6 or so I listen to and most I don't listen to much.
Anyway, the few I listen to seem to edit the songs. If I'm going to listen to edited music I minus well hear it on FM. I am not going to pay to hear edited music.

The next problem I've had is it's gotten to where it's a ton of commercials. It seems like it has just as many if not more commercials than most of the local FM stations. It used to not be like this. This is a huge deal breaker for me.

Honestly I find myself thinking FM is better every time I turn it on. The only nice thing I can find is that it shows you what song and the artist info of what's playing. I'm not going to pay $13 well now $15 a month for that. Sorry.

Honestly, I do listen to it some but not a lot. When I do listen to it I just listen to it because it's their. Most of the time I have most of the songs already on my iPod or they are either new and I'm getting ready to purchase them on iTunes. Usually I have the songs though and just listen to them on XM instead because they are there. I'd rather have $15 a month in my pocket though and turn the iPod on.

FM seems to be better to me if I want to hear new music anyway and doesn't have many if anymore commercials. The same edited music so it doesn't bother me either way there.

I've never loved XM. Back when Sirius and XM were seperate I used both and thought Sirius was a ton better. I just used XM because it was what came in the Accord we have and I didn't want to modify it for Sirius. However, they are the same now anyway and I'm finding it to be getting worse and worse and the price keeps going up.

I don't think satellite radio is a way of the future. I've been wrong before and may be this time but my guess is I'm not going to be.

I have a one year sub and contemplated ending it in July when it was up. I am now convinced that I will. Between the iPhone and some commercial free subchannels on my car radio, I think I have plenty to listen to. Thanks for making the decision so much easier.

It's not like the 2 bucks are going to kill my budget. My expectation from the merger was that this was going to be an improved product and the savings generated by streamlining costs was going to keep the prices at bay for a while. Instead, they water down the music channels and bump me by 4 bucks in the last 6 months. If the product was improved, then maybe I'd stay. I'm simply not going to pay more for less product.

XM was $9.95 when I signed up. That's almost a 50% increase over 5 or 6 years. Which I might not mind if the service hadn't dropped so dramatically in quality. They dropped half of the formats I enjoyed, and watered down the rest of them. Their playlists used to be huge and they never had any DJ chatter...now the playlists are almost as pathetic as commercial radio.

I think at this point I'm only paying for Ron & Fez. It's sad, and I blame Mel Karmizan. He's a fool who's still stuck in the olden days of commercial radio. As soon as Lee Abrams left XM, I knew it was the beginning of the end.