[Scan-DC] XM Radio

Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:09:36 -0500

On the stations that do have advertising it it only 2-4 minutes per hour, if
that. I think commercials run on only 30 of the channels. They are channels
like CNN/SI, ESPN and 28 or so others.

Although Sirius who is in the process of rolling our now does not have any
commercials, I can't imagine that they will be able to survive on just
subscription fees alone. Even if XM did have 8-10 minutes of commercials on
stations, i still would not give it up.

Andrew

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Quoting <Andrew <[email protected]>> on <Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at
02:19:34PM -0500>:

> not nearly the extent commercial radio stations seem to have. Commercials
> are much less on the few XM stations that actually do play commercials.

I wonder about this... The advertisements I hear claim "no advertising", not
"little advertising". What sorts of stations play ads? Is this something I
might look forward to, should I subscribe (which I'm wont to do for the same
reasons you enumerated)? My fear is that advertising plays a larger and
larger part when XMs projections don't pan out...

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