XM Satellite Radio Review

Overall 4.29 of 5 view all 41 reviews

jennyb7
New City, NY

I love my XM!

long time XM subscriber, a talk radio listener, computer literate, a satellite radio fan

Pros

See artist and song, relatively inexpensive, excellent selection, variety of programming

Cons

there are still blind spots, ruins you for regular radio forever!, commercials on non music stations

FEB

2008

I've been an XM subscriber for over 2 1/2 years. Now it's become the background of my life!
My favorite stations are 202 and 164. 202 is the Virus, which plays Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez all day. I am a much bigger fan of Ron & Fez...they are more of an edgy, intelligent extreme talk show, while O& A can have more of a frat house humor. Both contain "extreme language", but you can have the channel (and other channels such as extreme rap and metal) blocked. 164 has old time radio shows. Now, I am nowhere near that age....but it's really cool to fall asleep to real classics, such as the Lone Ranger, The Shadow, and Jack Benny. XM has many news and sports stations as well. The only problem is, they all run commercials to an extent. Only the purely music channels are commercial free. The reception at home is fine....however, my husband brings a portable unit to work, and he tends to lose reception. You can, however, record up to 5 hours of programming, which is what he does. If you call XM to purchase a radio, I've heard you can get all kinds of deals....they are really trying to get people to commit to service, esp. with the possibility of a merger with Sirius. Hmmmm.....how will I feel then? Happy still I hope! :-)