A Letter to SiriusXM

Keith Gable — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:26:00 -0600

I wrote this letter on their online feedback system. I hope it doesn’t fall on deaf ears:

I would like to complain about the new channel lineup. I previously called customer care and they were supposed to note this on my account, but to ensure the customer care operator actually noted my account, I am writing you.

Here are my complaints:

Most music is censored now. I understand this is because the same feed is used on XM and Sirius now and those channels aren’t marked XL on XM. That’s fine - give them the shitty feed and let us keep our profanity. The artist would have left the profanity out if that’s how they wanted the song to sound. And, hey, that’s one of the reasons Stern is on here - because of the lack of censorship. Yet now you’re censoring music.
BuzzSaw 19 is now Boneyard 19, and Eddie Trunk is an asshole, so fuck him. But besides that, you’ve replaced it with the AC/DC limited engagement channel for the next two months. Sorry, AC/DC is not that great. Give me back BuzzSaw or move AC/DC, please!
BackSpin 43 is gone, leaving effectively three rap channels - new rap, new rap, and well, new rap. Awesome thinkin’ Gomer! XM still has their old school hip-hop channel - I want ours back.

Please give me a reasonable timeline for when you guys will undo some of what you did, in particular the censorship. One of the reasons I even chose Sirius was the lack of censorship and therefore Howard Stern and my music as I want to hear it. Expect to lose all three radios as well as a loyal Stern fan if you continue to censor your music channels.

Also, be rest assured that the contents of this are being posted to a relatively high traffic website - please don’t sit around and do nothing. I would love for the manager of programming to read this and set all of his/her minions straight and fix this mess. And for the love of God, don’t send me a canned response.

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