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Let me clarify my point...... I would have been open to the idea of subscribing to both services IF they were unique.

With this midnight massacre, many XM channels were killed and replaced with their Sirius "equivalents". Sirius has always felt that the people were the draw (Jimmy Buffett, Bruce Springsteen, etc.) and had lots of talking DJs talking over the music.

One of the things I liked about the XM brand was that most channels had limited chatter and just focused on the music, and dug DEEP into the catalog to come up with unique music that I haven't heard for years on many of the nostalgia channels. Sirius is sacrificing breadth for familiarity. That's a choice they made, which is fine. I disagree with it, but as they are the monopoly now, they get to do it with impunity now.

I understand they are in a fight for their very survival. I'm an XM Sirius stockholder who has watched my investment fall 90% in value, so I understand what you are up against as far as cutting costs. Unfortunately, removing most of what made XM what it was is gone now and you have dramatically reduced the incentive to sign up for both. If they had been left alone, I would have gotten the dual receiver. I DID subscribe to both for the last 4 years. I cancelled Sirius when they added the Best of Sirius and gave me enough critical content (mostly the NFL) to get on my XM radio.

If you are going to have the dual radio, you are going to have to give a substantial discount to subscribe to both as half the service is duplicated now on both platforms.....

$19.99 should do it, but you need to do the family discount so households with 4 radios in them like myself, don't wind up paying $80 a month for the service or it won't happen.

BobMurdoch said:

If you are going to have the dual radio, you are going to have to give a substantial discount to subscribe to both as half the service is duplicated now on both platforms.....

$19.99 should do it, but you need to do the family discount so households with 4 radios in them like myself, don't wind up paying $80 a month for the service or it won't happen.

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Just to be clear, I don't work for Sirius, I work for (arguably) the largest online dealer of Siirus and Sirius accessories on the Internet.

I think you'll find that a dual receiver will probably offer two ways to buy, one of which is by Government requirement. Sirius agreed in a post merger world people would have a-la-carte options so they could basically program things the way they want. Not necessarily a "I want this but not this", but something along those lines. They also agreed to a pricing freeze for several years.

The homogenization of the music channels between services isn't unprecedented but it was something I hoped I'd not see because it reduces the need for a dual receiver and reduces the difference between the two services (which may be why they did it). It is ultimately a Coke vs Pepsi situation and as it goes, some pick one over the other with good reasons for themselves.

Thanks for the clarification, the tone of your earlier post made it sound like you were within the company....

I still love the promise of satellite radio, and compared to the "free" radio I left behind, it is still a huge leap in satisfaction, just not as huge as it was last week....

Hopefully, they can add a few more goodies to please subscribers, like adding both feeds of NFL and MLB games in the future to XM (XM users on BOS only get one feed)

Maintiainig 2 satellite infrastructures is bad economics, I suspect within 5 years you'll see them annouce the phase out of one of them, I suspect Sirus since there are more XM receivers and I belive the XM infrastructure is more robust. BUT that being said with Sirius as the owner one never knows....

The Sirius system favors the Canadians and the Northern part of the US. They oculd probably find some way to combine the two to have the best of both worlds.

I am disappointed that they have basically homogenized the service though. I'm starting to hear censored tracks on Octane of all things. wtf..