XM launches presidential election channel
Steve Safran May 21st, 2007
XM Radio has launched POTUS ‘08, a channel dedicated to the 2008 presidential election. (POTUS, of course, stands for President Of The United States.) It’s an XM/C-SPAN partnership and comes as XM and Sirius are trying to get Washington’s approval for a merger. It’s also a “free” XM channel, meaning you can get it if you have an XM receiver but don’t pay for a subscription, which Broadcasting and Cable correctly writes “seems a fairly unlikely scenario.”
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1. DC | May 21st, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I’d love to listen to this channel but:
1. XM’s coverage is currently all f’d up because one of their satellites is on the fritz.
2. I cancelled two of my three subs last week because XM “suspended” Opie & Anthony.
2. Mark Mascolino | May 21st, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I wonder how many people drive around in cars with an XM receiver that never signed up for the service or canceled it?
3. DB | May 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 am
My car gave me three months XM radio that was never activated, yet, after the trial period, XM call me about continuing the service. When I explained to them that I didn’t get to enjoy the three free months, they told me it was the car company’s fault and that in their view, I have already used the trial, so obviously I didn’t subscribe their service after all.
Then, just this week, surprise surprise, XM activated my service till the end of the month for a dozen channel for another round of free trial, yet I wondered, didn’t they say that they couldn’t activate my service and that it was my car company’s fault for me not getting me the first three months free trial?
Either way, I’m not going to sign up after this trial ends.
4. Nolan | May 22nd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Wow, if the customer service is of such high quality now, imagine if the merger were to go through. I’ve been following this proposal in my work with the NAB and as you may imagine, opposed to the merger.
Aside from the monopoly concerns, a XM/Sirius would have the leverage through cross-subsidization and utilizing anti-competitive tactics to go after terrestrial radio, undercutting advertising revenues at both the national and local levels.
5. Safran | May 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
My car “came” with sat radio, but the company wanted $2,000 to hook it up. No thanks.
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