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by Duf Anything and Everything

I sent in an email to the Stern Show bitching about how Howard never talks about how Sirius has recently been screwing it’s subscribers.  I already pay for two subscriptions, one costs 13 a month, the other 7.  These subscriptions also included the ability to listen to Sirius online via a web browser.  Well several months ago Sirius decided they wanted to try to stick it to their subscribers by forcing them to pay an additional $3 per month to listen to the online stream. 

For a company that has been struggling it seemed like a pretty stupid move for two reasons.  First charging people an additional fee for something that they had included in their subscription for 5 years does nothing but piss them off.  In times when money is tight it very well could be the prick in the side that makes people say “f it” and cancel.  Second, terrestial radio now streams their content more often than not and for free of course.  When Sirius started streaming it was a groundbreaking thing that if anything could have been charged extra for in the beginning.  However today, when online free streaming is commonplace Sirius decides they are NOW going to charge extra for it, brilliant.

The more recent cluster-f is the release of the Sirius-XM Iphone app.  They release the app and of course it REQUIRES you to have the extra cost $3 a month premium online listening add on.  Well fine, that is annoying but I would consider it for the convenience of getting Sirius practically anywhere.  So I download the app and check it out.  I immediately noticed that the Stern show was conspicuously absent from the list.  I hop online and am further outraged when I see the app doesn’t include any of the popular content like the sports broadcasts or either of the Stern channels?  WTF???? 

Sirius-XM really have put a bad taste in my mouth over this bullshit and I’m disappointed that Howard hasn’t had the balls to even talk about it on air. If Howard leaves Sirius at the end of his contract next year I will have absolutely no reason to continue with the service… greedy, stupid bastards.