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[OH Pete]

That lifetime deal, was a deal. I get an invoice every spring for $29 a month, and do the drill. Call in and ask for the special deal. Paid under $150 for this year.
Have kids in Cinci, Baltimore, and Charlotte. Get our moneys worth. College sports talk is awesome. Well worth th $12 I pay a month. Show Pony and Neuheisel 9-12 am. Great convo’s.
Plus you get Deep cuts from the 60’s and 70’s, and garage band. My wheelhouse.

I love Sirius as well. But I wonder what the long term outlook is. I love Howard Stern, but I believe they aren't developing other non-sports, non-political hosts out of fear of him lashing out. And national sports talk doesn't do much for me. I listen to it around certain times of the year like the NFL Draft, MLB Draft, Opening day, Super Bowl week. Or when a big sports scandal hits. But other than that, national sports talk is everything that is wrong with sports. Mad Dog is one of the best in the business, but he's all Yankees, all the time. ESPN radio and MLB radio is Yankees and Dodgers. Just can't take it.

But the main reason I wonder about the future of Sirius is because kids aren't listening to it. I offered to get it for my kids' cars (mainly for when I'm driving them), but they said they don't need it and don't want it. They listen to podcasts and Spotify. Most kids today do the same.

I feel like Sirius will fall apart after Howard finally hangs it up because they haven't developed anything special. Outside of Howard, there is no content that isn't also available elsewhere.

 

[pittdan77]

But the main reason I wonder about the future of Sirius is because kids aren't listening to it. I offered to get it for my kids' cars (mainly for when I'm driving them), but they said they don't need it and don't want it. They listen to podcasts and Spotify. Most kids today do the same.

My kid just took over the wife's car. Told her to just cancel the Sirius until her new car's free subscription runs out because the kid isn't using it. Spotify all the way for that generation.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

I feel like Sirius will fall apart after Howard finally hangs it up because they haven't developed anything special. Outside of Howard, there is no content that isn't also available elsewhere.

the thing that burns me up with Sirius is that Stern isn't even on their basic package, or whatever it's called. You need to buy the next higher level.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

My kid just took over the wife's car. Told her to just cancel the Sirius until her new car's free subscription runs out because the kid isn't using it. Spotify all the way for that generation.

yep, Sirius and message boards are not for the younger generation, anyone under 30 uses Spotify & Reddit.

 

[OH Pete]

yep, Sirius and message boards are not for the younger generation, anyone under 30 uses Spotify & Reddit.

I offered to pay for my older son who is a HUGE Pitt fan to have the $25 intro subscription to Peak's new site. He said he doesn't need it and wouldn't use it.

 

[OH Pete]

My kid just took over the wife's car. Told her to just cancel the Sirius until her new car's free subscription runs out because the kid isn't using it. Spotify all the way for that generation.

While I love Sirius, the only thing I use it for outside of Stern and the radio stream of the all news networks is to get exposed to new artists. I listen to alt nation and Spectrum mainly for that. Spotify just doesn't do it for me as far as finding new music. I think it is because it is so easy to skip and not give it a chance when I play one of the new music mixes it makes for me.

 

[pittdan77]

While I love Sirius, the only thing I use it for outside of Stern and the radio stream of the all news networks is to get exposed to new artists. I listen to alt nation and Spectrum mainly for that. Spotify just doesn't do it for me as far as finding new music. I think it is because it is so easy to skip and not give it a chance when I play one of the new music mixes it makes for me.

I'm not in the car long for very long since my commute is pretty short and I don't bother at the house. The few long trips we've used it, you could just about tell what time it was by what was playing. I know all of the words to "Pink Pony Club" now.

 

[PittPharm2002]

Sure, but multiply that by dozens of channels and that's a lot of songs.

I mean it's not like they require you to listen to the same one or two channels all the time.

I mean 75-80 different songs per channel per week makes it about 3x more variable than DVE - which has had the same playlist since the 1990s.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

I mean 75-80 different songs per channel per week makes it about 3x more variable than DVE - which has had the same playlist since the 1970s.

made a slight correction on your post

 

[Richard A]

I’ve had Sirius for about 10 years and I like being able to listen to a lot of different rock stations and blues station. Once in a while I’ll listen to the comedy stations and in the fall different college football games. The only reason why I have DVE on my radio is for the Steelers games.