I bought a 2013 Hyundai Sonata today. My Chevy Blazer still runs fine but now that I commute 50 miles round trip to work I decided it was time for a vehicle that gets more than 19 miles per gallon (you can see Old Blue has been relegated to parking on the street.) I haven't broken out the manual to figure out all the dashboard controls yet but I've definitely been messing with the radio.
The car comes with a free three month trial of SiriusXM satellite radio which is something I'd never heard before. XM offers dozens of news/talk and music channels from almost every genre but after sampling it for awhile I decided that there were only about 5 that I could see myself listening to regularly. At this point I also don't need yet another monthly payment. I guess I'll just enjoy it while it lasts.
I was surprised to find out that 5 Clear Channel-owned terrestrial radio stations could be found in the SiriusXM lineup: Top-40 KIIS "102.7 KIIS FM"/Los Angeles, Adult Contemporary WLTW "106.7 Lite FM"/New York, Top-40 WHTZ "Z100"/New York, Urban WGCI/Chicago, and....
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As I recall, Clear Channel had its hand in other programming on XM as well when it was still a separate service. I guess these are the deals even a supposedly competing service has to make when one conglomerate becomes so large and powerful. In retrospect, I wonder what the overall influence of Clear Channel was (or is) on SiriusXM. As one that listened to a lot of different stations on that service, I found that even ones that were supposed to specialize in "deep cuts" became much more repetitive. After loving XM when I got it with my own new car in 2006, I cancelled SiriusXM because, to me, it became no different than what I could get for free.
I'm impressed by the number of channels offered by SiriusXM but underwhelmed by the music programming on the few that I would listen to. The 80s on 8 and even the First Wave channel were way too mainstream for my tastes.
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