Sirius - ridiculous!

Riot · #1 06-27-2007, 07:59 PM

Okay, first my favorite radio program is interrupted for tennis ... today, I have to travel somewhere. I know the program is on the air at 4:00pm (at home, listening via the internet) - leave home, get in the car, turn on the Sirius in the car, tennis is on, but at 4:20 tennis is over.

Commercials start. Well, okay, I can listen to a few minutes of commercials, they'll hook up with ATR at 4:30, I think.

Oh, no - I had to listen to 40 $%*!@#*$ minutes of commercials, until they started playing ATR at 5:00pm.

As my second e-mail nastygram to Sirius in a week said, "I don't pay a premium for Sirius Radio in order to listen to 40 minutes of commercials - and I sure as heck won't continue to do so. Where the heck is my racing program!"

ARG!

ddthetide · #2 06-27-2007, 08:25 PM

i emailed and complained on monday and got a thank you.

AeWingnut · #3 06-27-2007, 08:41 PM

I was thinking about getting sirius so I could listen to ATRAB while driving to the OTB

guess not

robfla · #4 06-27-2007, 09:00 PM

AE:
Don't judge sirius by this week.. If you like ATRAB, music, sports, Stern, talk, etc. it's a must while you are driving. Sure, one or two weeks a year they preempt the show, but there are still 50 other weeks in the year. Its a great ~$120 for the year investment! - especially if you drive more than 20 minutes a day total to work and back.

Suffolk Shippers · #5 06-27-2007, 09:34 PM

If you have issues with Sirius, do yourself a favor and call support instead of email. I've gotten much further in voicing issues/concerns over the phone in my few instances.

Zaf · #6 06-27-2007, 09:58 PM

Who would listen to a tennis match on the radio, what's next golf

ddthetide · #7 06-28-2007, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by robfla

AE:
Don't judge sirius by this week.. If you like ATRAB, music, sports, Stern, talk, etc. it's a must while you are driving. Sure, one or two weeks a year they preempt the show, but there are still 50 other weeks in the year. Its a great ~$120 for the year investment! - especially if you drive more than 20 minutes a day total to work and back.

we swear by sirius! don't think we'd be without it now. it came with my wife's new car, we liked it so much we bought the boom box kit for in the house. (mostly for Alabama Football)

ATR is the only talk program i listen to on sirius and look forward to it when i get off work. they moved ATR races once to it's own channel, now they pre-empt it with tennis, just doesn't make sense. tennis and soccer, you may as well watch paint dry.

golfer · #8 06-28-2007, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ddthetide

we swear by sirius! don't think we'd be without it now. it came with my wife's new car, we liked it so much we bought the boom box kit for in the house. (mostly for Alabama Football)

ATR is the only talk program i listen to on sirius and look forward to it when i get off work. they moved ATR races once to it's own channel, now they pre-empt it with tennis, just doesn't make sense. tennis and soccer, you may as well watch paint dry.

You mean it's like LISTENING to paint dry

PPerfectfan · #9 06-28-2007, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddthetide

we swear by sirius! don't think we'd be without it now. it came with my wife's new car, we liked it so much we bought the boom box kit for in the house. (mostly for Alabama Football)

ATR is the only talk program i listen to on sirius and look forward to it when i get off work. they moved ATR races once to it's own channel, now they pre-empt it with tennis, just doesn't make sense. tennis and soccer, you may as well watch paint dry.

I have a bumper sticker that reads "My 2 Favorite teams are LSU and whoever plays Alabama!!"....hehe Geauxxxx Tigers!!

Benny Leger · #10 06-28-2007, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddthetide

we swear by sirius! don't think we'd be without it now. it came with my wife's new car, we liked it so much we bought the boom box kit for in the house. (mostly for Alabama Football)

ATR is the only talk program i listen to on sirius and look forward to it when i get off work. they moved ATR races once to it's own channel, now they pre-empt it with tennis, just doesn't make sense. tennis and soccer, you may as well watch paint dry.

I'm with you dd...since discovering sirius and "atrab" I admit I'm addicted. Sometimes when I get off work at 5:30 am I catch myself taking the long way home so I can hear the end of the replay of that days show(4a-7a). I call it cable radio and it's well worth the price. Byk does a wonderful job bringing news, interviews and live races calls to all the listeners. Wayne's cool too.