Goodbye Sirius on E*?????

[Juan]

Looks like some kind of deal happening between E* and XM radio!!!!http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/dish-and-xm-working-together-to-increase-sales.html

Can any E* dealer's confirm this??

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Negative.

Dish is not doing this deal. From what I have heard All Systems was an XM Distributer and from what I have heard they are looking to get out of XM, so they are offering these radios to Dish Network retailers for $30 (which is HIGH, I have been able to get them before for as low as $19 each)

This has nothing to do with Dish Network (or Echostar) and all to do with those Dish Retailers who buy their Dish Equipment from All Systems.

 

[datwell]

Negative.

Dish is not doing this deal. From what I have heard All Systems was an XM Distributer and from what I have heard they are looking to get out of XM, so they are offering these radios to Dish Network retailers for $30 (which is HIGH, I have been able to get them before for as low as $19 each)

This has nothing to do with Dish Network (or Echostar) and all to do with those Dish Retailers who buy their Dish Equipment from All Systems.

Thank goodness!! I really like both (Sirius & Dish) and I was really happy when Dish started to carry the Sirius music. I wish they could do more together.

My 2 cents.

--Doug

 

[jrbdmb]

I cannot locate a link at this time, but I've read that when Sirius CEO Mel karmazin came on board he was not happy that Sirius was providing content to Dish Network for free. So there certainly is a possibility that Sirius will not be on Dish Network in the future if a new deal isn't worked out.

But as said above nothing has hapenned yet.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

BTW Orbitcast removed the news from their homepage (although the archive link above is still there)

It was a false alarm.

 

[BobMurdoch]

Anyone know how long the Sirius on E* contract is for?

I agree that Mel hates giving his service away for free (well, other than his sneak preview this Weds. and Thurs.), and I'm sure that the deal will not be renewed without a cost increase (ie. Sirius becomes an added subscription fee like HBO or Showtime)

 

[springdale_sam]

that bites

 

[hometheaterman]

Woa the title had me worried. I have XM in my car as it's what it came with. I don't like it and am not sure I will continue my subscription after the trial is over. I had Sirius previously but cancelled it as I didn't want to pay for 2. I can say I love Sirius and if it came in my car I'd have no problem keeping it. I just don't want to modify the car to add anything. I may keep XM as it's better than regular radio but it just doesn't fit my needs like Sirius. I guess I just like more the music style Sirius has. I'm not bashing XM it may be the best for some people just not me. For me it played a lot of music I'd never heard of and didn't like on the channels with the types of music I liked.

 

[TV Junkie 12]

While there is a larger variety of Sirius channels, from a sound quality standpoint I prefer the Muzak channels. The only thing I wish is that they were all carried in stereo.

 

[Jeff003]

I have xm and they have some pretty great choices but I can't say I'd like to see them on dish because I can listen to it when I want.I would like to however see music choice because they have a very good beautiful music channel programmed by Phil Stout and a holiday channel that plays something for every month of the year.Incidently I love the Muzak channels and hope they will leave these on especially 973.

 

[KE4EST]

I wish dish would carry more of the Sirius channels.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Negative.

Dish is not doing this deal. From what I have heard All Systems was an XM Distributer and from what I have heard they are looking to get out of XM, so they are offering these radios to Dish Network retailers for $30 (which is HIGH, I have been able to get them before for as low as $19 each)

This has nothing to do with Dish Network (or Echostar) and all to do with those Dish Retailers who buy their Dish Equipment from All Systems.

I have gotten them for as little as $10, and used them as give aways. They pay an activation commission when the unit is activated, but I was only seeing a 10% activation rate.

I spent $1000 an gave away 100 radios, I should have made a profit giving them away, but instead lost $750.

The Sirius stuff is nice, but too expensive when compaired to XM. Best Gift I ever gave my girlfriend was a sirius radio for her car and the boom box to use it indoors

 

[Poke]

Yeah Sirus is just better overall and NASCAR is also leaving XM going to Sirus next year..

 

[BobMurdoch]

Since day one, it has been the mantra about these two....

If you like a LOT of variety, including songs not heard of for years on terrestrial radio, then go for XM. Their catalogs are much deeper (they even run a regular "History of Popular Music", where they play just about every single ever released, in order, from the Depression Era to today... As a former college DJ, I LOVE this. They also have Cinemagic, a channel for movie music, and U Pop, a channel for top 40 music around the world.

However, if you feel radio should be more like a comfortable blanket, playing mostly songs you are familiar with, then stick with Sirius. It's a personal choice.

Me? I now have both in my car. I like baseball AND football. I have a SkyFi2 hardwired into my car, and I recently got a Sirius One receiver that is portable and can be transported from car to car. It looks like a radar detector with a long antenna wire and a long power cord. Fits perfectly in what used to be the ashtray in older model years of my Aurora, but is now just a coin well... I myself find listening to the XM more enjoyable when listening to music, but I do listen to a lot of the talk channels and football broadcasts. Not a big Howard fan though. I used to listen to O & A a lot, but I have kind of drifted away recently....

 

[dlsnyder]

The Sirius channels being on Dish Network played a significant part in my decision to become a regular Sirius subscriber. I don't know if the same can be said for a significant number of their subscribers, but at least in my case the marketing tool worked as designed. I'm not sure that the same outcome would have occurred if Dish had partnered with XM instead.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I wonder if having the Sirius channels on 12.5 million Dish receivers is the reason why more people subscribed to Sirius this last quarter vs Xm? Maybe more people after hearing it on Dish decided to go with them over Xm. Xm just got added a few months back to Directv ,where as Sirius has been with Dish for over a year now.

 

[oggusfoo]

I wonder if having the Sirius channels on 12.5 million Dish receivers is the reason why more people subscribed to Sirius this last quarter vs Xm? Maybe more people after hearing it on Dish decided to go with them over Xm. Xm just got added a few months back to Directv ,where as Sirius has been with Dish for over a year now.

Yup, that's exactly why I subscribed to Sirius... well that and a good rebate. I wasn't a satellite radio subscriber, but took the plunge after hearing what it was all about. And of course I went with what I was familiar with.

 

[tnsprin]

I wonder if having the Sirius channels on 12.5 million Dish receivers is the reason why more people subscribed to Sirius this last quarter vs Xm? Maybe more people after hearing it on Dish decided to go with them over Xm. Xm just got added a few months back to Directv ,where as Sirius has been with Dish for over a year now.

For over TWO years.

 

[Neutron]

I've had Sirius since July 2004. I wouldn't give it up either.

If Sirius were to make a new deal with DISH and ask that their service be a subscription service, they should allow Sirius subs to have it at no extra cost and be part of our current subscription.

 

[jayn_j]

I've had Sirius since July 2004. I wouldn't give it up either.

If Sirius were to make a new deal with DISH and ask that their service be a subscription service, they should allow Sirius subs to have it at no extra cost and be part of our current subscription.

They would need to add the rest of the channels to interest me. Besides, at $13/mo for the full subscription, how could they handle an add-on to the Dish plan without bundling it in to a full sub?