A reader recently commented on an older post on this site which was written several months before I came on board which is prompting me to write here. The writer of the comment was upset, understandably about the cancellation of lifetime subscriptions in July of 2009. The writer refers to Sirius as being a “fad”.

 I am going to use this entire week’s two pieces to write how and why SiriusXM is here to stay. I will angle this from the perspective of a Sirius Canada subscriber.

When I joined Sirius in June of 2008 I was very delighted to have access. I have long concluded that in order to get the kind of radio programming you want, you need to go to Satellite and abandon Terrestrial radio for good. I have become so tired of most normal radio. I used to dream when I was a kid about stations that would play exactly the kind of music I wanted to hear, whenever I wanted to hear it.

I did not want to resort to going to the Internet for streaming web radio casts. Even though we have reached far beyond the point where you can get decent Terrestrial programming by dialing into a sites live features.

If it meant paying a reasonable price in order to have content, then I am happy to pay it. Even some of you who have experienced poor service issues probably have concurred that its nice to hear programming you would never get elsewhere!

To be continued Thursday, July 29, 2010