[Scan-DC] XM Radio

[John Wilson]

     I perked up when I heard that "no commercials" part of XM's recent TV advertising
campaign.  That is not true and borders on false advertising.  When at Circuit City
recently I overhead a salesman extolling XM's virtures to a prospective customer.  He
mentioned commercial free programing.  I interrupted his pitch and told him that was not
true.  He immediately corrected himself and said that there were less than 30 commercial
programing services on XM.  The potential customer thanked me for the info.  The salesman
did not.

jmc wrote:

> Quoting <Andrew <andrew@totallynuts.org>> 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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