The could add a logon option to the app...for subs.....hey..that might sell more subscriptions
If it was an app like the app on your phone it already requires an active login to listen.
Still, it would be nice if we could use our Dish subscription to authenticate the SiriusXM skill on Alexa, so we could listen to those "select" stations directly through an Echo Dot, without needing to use the Dish receiver.
You hit the nail on the head....no receiver = no income for dish
Huh? We would still need a receiver to watch the rest of the Dish channels. Plus, we would be buying the SiriusXM channels from Dish, instead of getting them directly from SiriusXM. If necessary, Dish could arrange it so that the (Dish channels-only) SiriusXM Alexa skill would only work if the Echo Dot is also paired to control a Dish receiver with the Dish skill.
No..alexa (in a dot)would grab the siriusxm's stream from the internet...not the dish receiver
I know that. My point was that if we are already paying for those music stations through our Dish subscription, why should we have to pay for those exact same stations again (through SiriusXM) just to have the convenience of listening to them through the Dot? I am not interested in accessing the additional stations that would come with a SiriusXM streaming subscription.
It's a conspiracy between john malone and charlie
Still, it can be frustrating listening to the SiriusXM stations through the Dish receiver and hearing them advertise for the Alexa feature, knowing that it does not work with my subscription, especially if my Echo Dot hears the ad and interprets it as a command to start playing something completely different from what I was listening to on SiriusXM.
For that particular ad, but then some other TV show would probably trigger it by accident. There really is no good trigger word option that would not result in false positives.
Dish did have a siriusxm and dish music on the hopper 3 dvr along time ago and it was discontinued maybe it is time to bring it back on the hopper 3 dvr. also a good one on the hopper 3 dvr it is not on dts play-fi would be slacker radio just a idea? 
