SiriusXM - Great listening if you like ads

17  2013-04-11 by phlammo

So we've got SiriusXM - pay radio, that requires you to have it in your car, or pay for a separate device to listen (or pay an extra fee for the online stream) and you need to pay even more to listen to O&A/Ron and Fez if you're a Sirius subscriber. Satellite radio is commercial free generally, but talk channels need commercials 'cause you can't talk for 4 hours straight. Fine. Understood.

But now you've got your on-air talent reading the spots so some of their talking is still just ads. Okay.

And today you've got guests that are coming in less to promote something that might be worth watching or listening to, but Excedrin and vodka?

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They're terrible ads too. Ashley Madison...

Such douche chills from Ashley Madison. I feel embarrassed for the girl who did the voice over.

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The Cougarlife jingle haunts me.

Because I'll be a cougar one day and not a kitten. :/

[Greatest live read ever! I wish they would let Ron do live reads again.]

this would require someone with a brain and a sense of humor to be in charge - whatever comes next, I hope Ronnie is in the mix - can't say the same for anyone else on that show

[I think Pips is a hard working guy, and I enjoy having Pepperkeet there so that Ron has someone to bounce ideas off of. Of course I think it's safe to say that we all wish Davey Mac was second mic.]

ESD is possibly higher on my list of awful than Fez (my opinion)- no problem with Pips, he is mostly background - for me RB as 4th mic is all that is needed - talk about making the show better

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i dont think i could ventilate myself properly inside one of their live event venues. i would be afraid two guys would both turn sideways at the same time and crush me between their massive tum tums.

If I were a female I would literally be scared for my life

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attractive girlfriends dragged to events by their boyfriend do NOT count lol

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The worst, most embarrassing ads too.

You won't believe the bank I am making with my Retro Fitness franchise. And heck - they even gave me a manager! More time with my cheap Viagra and the sweet DVDs I ordered, using offer code DULL.

show has been bad lately as well, i know its a bad day when they start going for roland/sam/sal/erock, tbh if i wanted to listen to aftershow filler i would listen to the shitshow, but its horrible.

I used to listen to the entire show through my day, i havent finished it in weeks

if you pay for the show you should just download it from one of the many youtube uploaders or websites that upload the show day of. its not like you are pirating, you are paying your subscription. just download the .mp3 and you can listen ad-free from any device you want at your own pace guilt free.

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Honestly, I don't pay for the show. I do pay for Sirius though. To listen online or on my MP3 player, they want to charge me for Sirius, for Virus, and then an additional 15 or so dollars a month to listen online. Fuck that. They nickel and dime their customers to death. I don't mind the live reads at all, those can be gold. But fuck you if I'm going to PAY you to listen to a channel, then have you give me huge commercial blocks for dick cream and cougar sites? I'd rather just hit up the link to download the MP3 and listen commercial free. Sirius can't even get something like that right, if they offered an option like that without raping me on fees, I'd pay extra for that as well.

Ads? I don't hear any ads . . .

IS THAT IN PESOS!?

I was listening to o and a and my roommates asked why there were ads if it was satellite? I didn't have a good answer.

Unless they piss in jugs or in the corner (Artie), they have to break sometime. That's a lot of organic vegetable juice or whatever else they drink to totally relate to the 18-35 year old male demographic, to hold in for several hours.

I can understand the Crystal Head vodka, because he's not just hocking his wares. He's got a huge library of really good (and some really shitty) films.

The Excedrin ads on Ron and Fez were completely unbearable and unnecessary.

This is actually the first time I listened to RnF in a while as I was on a long road trip. Did this just start happening or has this been going on for some time?

Have you heard Stern lately? During the news at the end of the show he crowbars in live reads between Robin's stories. She'll do a story and he'll ham handedly say her "Robin, you know I gotta ask you....are you worried about your identity being stolen? *cue the music bed. IDENTITY GUARD you need this Robin!" Pathetic.

I agree that the company is shitty and the ad load is overbearing most of the time, but as far as the guests go, that's why they come on; to promote something. They got Dan Akroyd in, who cares? The whole reason Louie CK was in the other day was to promote his HBO special.

The way they cram commercials on the comedy channels is deplorable though. Talk radio I can understand. They need breaks to eat and piss, but there's no fucking reason to have ads on the comedy channels.

every celebrity guest is there to plug something... whether it's a movie, book, album...

it's the nature of the beast

unfuck yourself

They are called "live reads", and for every one they di, it's one less reproduced, recorded ad. It's not additional.

unbunch the panties...

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Honestly, I don't pay for the show. I do pay for Sirius though. To listen online or on my MP3 player, they want to charge me for Sirius, for Virus, and then an additional 15 or so dollars a month to listen online. Fuck that. They nickel and dime their customers to death. I don't mind the live reads at all, those can be gold. But fuck you if I'm going to PAY you to listen to a channel, then have you give me huge commercial blocks for dick cream and cougar sites? I'd rather just hit up the link to download the MP3 and listen commercial free. Sirius can't even get something like that right, if they offered an option like that without raping me on fees, I'd pay extra for that as well.