I called in to subscribe and they wanted the $145 and I told them I had an add for $77 and they made me pay one month at $16 and then gave me the discounted $77 for the year, but at that time they offered me a lifetime subscription that included 3 radio/vehicle changes for around $450 so I did that instead.

 

When did that news come out. I listen to Stern everyday and I have heard talk that Howard may not be interested in coming back, not the other way around.

I guess you only listened once.

I never got one phone call. I had to call them to re-up.

I am not sure what I will do in Feb. But I can say $145 will be to much.

 

To be totally honest I can't remember the exact price they told me but it was like $450 or something with all the taxes etc. I was just so excited at the fact that they wouldn't be calling me ever again to renew and I'm totally addicted to satellite radio that I'd be willing to pay $600. If you like satellite radio enough and you don't want to have to go through the hassle every year with them calling you I'd just do the lifetime subscription, saves a lot of trouble in the long run. That is...if you plan on keeping the truck for a while....!

 

Who's Howard Stern?

 

Some guy who swears a lot.

 

That's just distasteful.

 

he's the ugly one ...

 

Between all the other media listening options in my REN-equipped RAM (MP3 on Harddrive, FM, iPod - I've found that Audio Books do great for road trips), I don't really miss Sat Radio. Except when I want NCAA or NFL Games on Sunday AM, then I miss out.
I'd probably pay $50/yr ($10/day) for Game Days, even if it were like a Pay-per-View arrangement where I sign-up for the Day via web/txt message then listen to games all day and then lose access after the last game. But otherwise, I don't want or need to pay $100's for "yet-another-unused-media-choice" in my truck.

 

I just started listening to Sirius for the first time in my new 2010 Power Wagon and despite having Dodge's top end stereo system, my main gripe is just how hollow and harsh Sirius sounds compared to FM, CD or even XM. As part of my career, I've had a chance to listen to XM and Sirius side by side and with XM using AAC plus and Sirius using PAC, I have to say even with their latest PAC-encoded changes a couple of months back, PAC is very unpleasant. Apparently, much to my surprise Dodge was aware of this too; when I check the Audio EQ settings from the factory, Dodge had tried to compensate for it by turning the bass to 9, the mids to 6 and the treble to (it was either 5 or 4, can't recall that one for sure.) I wish they either had put an XM system in, or at least on their stereos designed them so that you could save different EQ settings for the different inputs (FM, AM, Hard drive, Satellite Radio and IPod.) Since I listen to FM the most I set it up to a more normal (7 bass /5 mid / 7 treble) setting but boy does that make the Sat radio even worse than it was originally! Ugh.

 

My free year was just up. My bride loves the fact there's no (or hardly) commercials. I solved the problem by burning 300 MP2s of my favorite songs.
No commercials.
No fee.
No problem.
Oh...And no Stern!