Free listen event Aug 26 - Sept 8

DJdish

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• Aug 21, 2014

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Those are the dates for the upcoming free listen for 2 weeks.
Again they will put 60 channels in the clear, but this time I see some changes (finallly) to that list.

Still I´m not sure many folks will feel the urge to subscribe by getting a free listen to Catholic radio, CNN en Español, or French Canadian Country.

http://www.siriusxm.com/sxmlp314?sxmlpId=listen5

 

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DJdish

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• Aug 26, 2014

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Inactive radios are now on.

 

smithduluth

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• Aug 27, 2014

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After listening to all the advertising on CNN and Fox, I am reminded why I'm not interested in signing up to pay for it. These advertising filled channels should be free all of the time.

 

TheKrell

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• Aug 27, 2014

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DJdish said:

Inactive radios are now on.

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Just checked my car and I get nothin'.

 

Bobby

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• Aug 27, 2014

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TheKrell said:

Just checked my car and I get nothin'.

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Mine is up and running! Are you parked where the car can get a signal?

 

TheKrell

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• Aug 27, 2014

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Bobby said:

Mine is up and running! Are you parked where the car can get a signal?

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Yeah, it's still getting the default channel telling you how great SiriusXM is.

 

DJdish

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• Aug 28, 2014

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TheKrell said:

Just checked my car and I get nothin'.

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60 channels are on now, the link shows the channel listing. I´ve dusted an old inactive home radio kit and it´s on.

 

TheKrell

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• Aug 28, 2014

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How long does it take for your radio to discover the new channels? Is it possible they only made these channels available for XM tech radios? Not positive, but I believe Chrysler is still using Sirius tech.

 

tobsandmags

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• Aug 29, 2014

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I had my inactive Sirius unit on for an entire 3 hour trip.....got nothing but the preview channel.


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TheKrell

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• Aug 29, 2014

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tobsandmags said:

I had my inactive Sirius unit on for an entire 3 hour trip.....got nothing but the preview channel.

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How is it that you and I are in this boat, but others get a free preview?

 

kozmo104

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• Aug 29, 2014

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The free channels are for radios on your account. If u deleted a radio from your account ever. It won't work.

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TheKrell

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• Aug 29, 2014

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What account? SiriusXM certainly knows I have a radio since they keep calling and mailing me flyers trying to get me to re-subscribe. My question on the previous page was more a technical question. How do they enable free previews? Supposedly (my reading of the above comments) they transmit in the clear to all radios. Seems that's not how it's done, since some of us are out of luck.

 

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DJdish

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• Aug 29, 2014

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I no longer have an account with them, yet my old radio works every time they have these free listen events, as it´s on right now.
I´d assume when they mean free listen it would be precisely having those 60 channels in the clear, just like that, so that any radio (sirius or xm) may receive them.
It beats me how come some radios are not receiving those ITC channels.

 

DJdish

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• Aug 29, 2014

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Well I´ve read in another board some reports also indicating some radios are not getting anything, no idea why´s that.

 

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TheKrell

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• Sep 3, 2014

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TheKrell said:

How is it that you and I are in this boat, but others get a free preview?

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Still no free preview for me.

 

DJdish

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• Sep 3, 2014

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TheKrell said:

Still no free preview for me.

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That´s bad, still one week left,

 

DJdish

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• Sep 4, 2014

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Listening to CNN right now, which is now the CNN International feed, with frequent commercial breaks, makes me wonder why the heck would I subscribe to this, with BBC World news, I get the same British accents, international news and no commercial breaks.

 

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