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Technology Stocks : XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XMSR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oak Tree who wrote (2276)	2/25/2006 11:41:46 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 3386

Do either of you subscribe to sat radio? I subscribe to both but have [currently] 4 XM and 1 Sirius subscriptions. I can't figure out why I want to subscribe since I mostly listen to NPR as I suspect most people who have more than the average income. NPR is available on terrestrial radio almost everywhere you go, and Sirius doesn't carry the best NPR programs. So, NPR probably isn't a good reason to move to satellite radio. But NPR's offerings are so limited anyway, even on terrestrial. I used to listen almost exclusively to NPR, and haven't listened to it, even for a minute, since I got XM. Why would the masses want to spend 100's per year on radio? - $120/year is 1 CD a month (I haven't bought a CD in years after having bought 10-20 a month for many years). - XM's music library consists of 2.2 million tracks, and even Sirius has 500,000 or more tracks. You can't get this on terrestrial radio. Many of XM's channels have playlists 5-10x (sometimes more) the length of the typical FM playlists. - You get the same channels, everywhere you go, whenever you go, which means you always can find what you're looking for. - Sound quality is better than FM and there is no "static" (XM will be starting two channels in surround beginning next month). - You can't get channels like C-SPAN, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, on terrestrial radio. - You can't get uncensored comedy on terrestrial radio. - The list goes on. It is just one of those things you just have to try to understand. The preference for satellite radio at home over Music Choice is about channel selection, IMO.