About Satellite Radio

You might be wondering why I'm writing about satellite radio on a guitar site. Well if you are interested in guitar you are interested in music in general and satellite broadcasting is here to stay.

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The company that provides this service is SiriusXM, you probably already heard of them around the internet

SiriusXM provides over 130 stations and 69 of them are commercial free music stations, any style of music you want

This is a good way to listen to music that suites your present mood, hard rock, nice melodic songs or Country or maybe some comedy while you sit in traffic, lots of choices.

Not Just Music - 65 Other Channels
About Satellite Radio

There are sports radio, play-by-play action of more than 350 pro, college and motor sports teams like Nascar.

They have news stations, talk and play-by-play action from the NFL, also Barclays English Premier League soccer, UEFA Champions League soccer, Scottish Premier League soccer. Formula 1 Racing and hundreds of college teams, plus thoroughbred horse races.

SiriusXM is the only radio outlet to provide listeners with every NFL game, plus every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™, NASCAR Nationwide Series™ and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series™ race.

Freedom from Commercials

I like the fact that I don't have to listen to the local DJ's and ads over and over again just to hear some music. It's like having an mp3 player with unlimited storage and you don't have to wear headphones. I really do love this choice of stations for music. Music is what I use it for almost all the time except for a Philadelphia Eagles football game.

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SiriusXM Home Page

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Satellite Radios

There are 3 basic types of radios;

Portable for walking, jogging and other things

Vehicle type for cars, boats and other vehicles

Radios for the home, office or anywhere else you want

Some radios have a docking capability with accessories that lets you take your radio from vehicle to house and back again

This can save the expense of buying two radios. There are deals on two radios though in case you want one for the house and one for the vehicle.

There are quite a few options in the way of radio's and accessories

Vehicle Radios
About Satellite Radio

Vehicle radios can save you from road rage when your stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on a hot summer day when your AC is broke and the kids are being...well kids.

My favorite time for music when I'm driving is early in the morning on a road lined with trees an occasional lake and light traffic. It just makes your trip take no time at all.

Another good time is when you drop somebody off and wait in your vehicle for them to get done what they are doing. It doesn't seem like waiting then.

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Vehicle Radios

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Portable Radios
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Portable radios are so useful, you can take them just about anywhere.

With everybody on the fitness track nowadays these radios are great for helping you get through your exercising. They make the time go faster. When you listen to one of your favorite songs there goes about 3 minutes of exercise you didn't mind doing.

Get on your treadmill with a commercial free radio station and you will breeze through your exercise and feel great. Music is actually the best exercise buddy you can get.

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Portable Radios

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Radios for Home or Office

The radios for home are tuners you connect to your audio system. Most systems are compatible with the radios and you can check before buying.

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Home Radio Tuners

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Sirius and XM Subscription Deals
About Satellite Radio

They offer 3 basic subscription plans for each type radio, a Sirius ready or a XM ready radio.

They both are basically the same. Sirus and Xm were seperate companies untill they merged or created a partnership. So both types of radios exist perhaps to seperate their services for business purposes.

Both have a lot of music channels along with talk and comedy.

There are custom subscriptions too.

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XM-Packages

Sirius Packages

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Specialty Subscription Deals

All Access

This one has over 180 radio channels plus 120 channel for online listening on your computer or smart phone.

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All Access

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News Sports and Talk

This one doesn't have any commercial free music channels.

It has one comedy channel

It has 27 News, Traffic & Weather channels

It also has 7 Sports Talk & Play-by-Play channels

And lastly it has 15 Talk & Entertainment channels

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News and Sports Talk

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XM Mostly Music

This one has 52 commercial free music stations. Along with 3 News, Traffic & Weather channels

You also get 10 Talk & Entertainment channels

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Mostly Music

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XM Family-Friendly Packages

There are two packages for this category a Premier and a Select.

They both remove any adult themed channels

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XM Family-Friendly Packages

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SiriusXM All-In-One Packages

There are two of these one is family friendly removing the adult content stations.

From what I see the first option is similar to the XM All Access subscription and the second is similar to the XM family friendly. I believe it depends on your radio which one Sirius or XM.

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SiriusXM All-In-One Packages

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A La Carte Packages

This deal lets you pick the stations yourself.

There are two the first subscription you can pick 100 stations and the second one lets you pick 50 stations.

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A La Carte Packages

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Smart Phone Ap's
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I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about these App things for different phones. They have these phones that are called smart phones that do more things than some computers can do.

I think I'm too old to understand all these Ap's so this message is you young people out there that understand this stuff like it was part of your genetic code(maybe it is).

The link below will take you to the Satellite Radio page where you can check out these new smart phone Ap's for yourself.

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Smart Phone Apps

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All Budgets

There is a plan for almost any income. Some are only about 30 to 40 cents a day without the radio and they have inexpensive models available. They want to sell you a subsciption not a radio so they try to keep those costs down.

You can find these radios in local stores also. I have seen them in Walmart and other stores that sell electronics.

Enjoy the music you like without an annoying disc jockey.

SiriusXM Satellite Radio
Great Gift Idea

A subscription to SiriusXM also makes a great present.

This link will take you to their home page

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SiriusXM Home Page

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