Finally a true a la carte menu from a media company?
Category XM Sirius
I have been an XM Radio owner for about 4 years now. This week the merger of the two competing Satellite companies XM and Sirius was approved. Not sure how that's considered good for competition to go from two vendors to one in the marketplane, but anyway.
This morning the CEO of the new company XM Sirius was on the Bob Edwards show, and he was saying that they will be offer a try a la carte offering, where a subscriber will be able to pick the 50 channels they want, he claimed this will not be like cable companies where you can pick multiple packages of channels (and end up paying a fortune for the 3 channels out of 300 your want), but you will be able to select the specific channels you want, so true a la carte.
If they do what he says this will be fantastic, right now I listen to maybe 15 channels on XM out of hundreds, but there are a couple on Sirius that I would love to get, such as BBC Radio 1 and Soccer. Will be interesting to see how this shapes up.
I have been an XM Radio owner for about 4 years now. This week the merger of the two competing Satellite companies XM and Sirius was approved. Not sure how that's considered good for competition to go from two vendors to one in the marketplane, but anyway.
This morning the CEO of the new company XM Sirius was on the Bob Edwards show, and he was saying that they will be offer a try a la carte offering, where a subscriber will be able to pick the 50 channels they want, he claimed this will not be like cable companies where you can pick multiple packages of channels (and end up paying a fortune for the 3 channels out of 300 your want), but you will be able to select the specific channels you want, so true a la carte.
If they do what he says this will be fantastic, right now I listen to maybe 15 channels on XM out of hundreds, but there are a couple on Sirius that I would love to get, such as BBC Radio 1 and Soccer. Will be interesting to see how this shapes up.
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Satellite radio was one of those things that I thought "why?" Until I got one. Now, I never listen traditional radio. And when driving on vacations, we can listen to the same station for hours (Classic Rock, for example) without having to hunt for stations. Of course, I could just as easily hooked up the iPod, but not everyone in the car likes my choice of music.
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