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Sirius XM for iPhone Arrives in App Store

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Sirius XM Radio today announced the availability of SIRIUS XM Premium Online [App Store, Free for Subscribers] for the iPhone and iPod touch, offering Sirius XM Premium Online subscribers access to 120 online radio channels.

Users of iPhone and iPod touch with an Internet subscription to SIRIUS or XM have access to exclusive sports and entertainment programming from SIRIUS XM's satellite radio service, including, Oprah Radio, MLB Home Plate, Martha Stewart Living Radio, SIRIUS NFL Radio, NHL Home Ice, PGA TOUR, Opie & Anthony, Mad Dog Radio with Chris Russo, Playboy Radio, The Foxxhole comedy channel presented by Jamie Foxx, Blue Collar Comedy Radio, CNN, Fox News Talk and NPR.

SIRIUS and XM subscribers can also listen to 100% commercial-free music featuring exclusive shows from SIRIUS XM's satellite radio service such as Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour and Tom Petty's Buried Treasure, as well as 24/7 music channels such as Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio, The Grateful Dead Channel, Eminem's Shade 45, Jimmy Buffett's Radio Margaritaville, "Little Steven" Van Zandt's Underground Garage and Outlaw Country channels, B.B. King's Bluesville, Willie Nelson's Willie's Place, Elvis Radio, Siriusly Sinatra, Metropolitan Opera Radio and many others.
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Unfortunately, a number of popular Sirius XM offerings, including Howard Stern and channels covering several live sporting events, are not available on the iPhone and iPod touch.

Some select programming, including MLB Play-by-Play, NFL Play-by-Play, SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, and Howard Stern, will not be available on the iPhone and iPod touch. Listeners will continue to be able to access that programming through the platforms they are currently offered on.
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Current Sirius subscribers who do not have the Internet Radio package required for SIRIUS XM Premium Online for the iPhone can upgrade for an additional $2.99/month fee on top of their regular subscription, while non-subscribers can obtain the a standalone Internet Radio package for $12.95/month. Sirius is also offering a free seven-day trial for the new iPhone service.

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I've been using this App all morning. So far its been great.
Some people will complain about the lack of Howard Stern, but I could care less.
 
this is stupid. 20 million subscribers and 12 million of them are there for Howard only. thank goodness for Pocket Tunes.
 
$12.95/month?

Seriously? This App is going to fail! Who in their right mind is going to pay that expensive monthly subscription just for their iPhone? This App was most definitely meant for current Sirius subscribers. Internet radio is free and better. Sirius may promise "no commercials" but its still filled with their crappy own ads.
 
I love this app!

Now I can be less productive at work! I don't care that it doesn't have Howard, I'm more into Opie and Anthony/Ron and Fez. As for paying the $3/month just to have it on my iPhone, well I can take my iPhone anywhere, which is better than what I can do with my car radio. This is great!
 
Only SOME of their music stations are commercial free. Others are filled with commercials and the commercials are long and sometimes offensive (i.e. Adam and Eve.)

The playlist of some of the channels is also quite limited. Within two weeks of having Sirius, they were already replaying the same things over and over, rarely introducing new material.

Even though Sirius was free in my car, I still use my iPhone for FREE internet radio and more variety.
 
I have two accounts and internet radio with Sirius but it won't allow me to log into the iPhone app because apparently you need a special premium radio account. I am livid that Sirius would alienate customers like myself that have prepaid for two years and already have a internet account. They want me to upgrade to "premium internet account" for $1.67 more a month.

App has been uninstalled, Sirius will not be renewed and I will be selling my Sirius stock.
 
No Howard????

I cant believe I have been anxiously awaiting this! They will probably change it after all the backlash they will be getting.
 
Sinsinnati said:
I have two accounts and internet radio with Sirius but it won't allow me to log into the iPhone app because apparently you need a special premium radio account. I am livid that Sirius would alienate customers like myself that have prepaid for two years and already have a internet account. They want me to upgrade to "premium" for a $1.67 a month.

App has been uninstalled, Sirius will not be renewed and I will be selling my Sirius stock.
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Aside from the typical "I'm selling [company name] stock!", I too am pretty upset that they want $2.99 in addition to my monthly fee.

Take a page from Netflix, XM/Sirius.
 
Management at XM Sirius are morons not to include Howard. They are completely inept. Howard is the only reason Sirius survived and not to include him in a package that can reach 50 Million subscribers is insane, it is ludicrous. I have never bought one of their radios because they are garbage. The iPod/iPhone vehicle is so much better than the stiletto, I am so disappointed, and will be even more so when Howard leaves at the end of his contract in a year because the suits at Sirius are going to completely tank this stock, which I unfortunately own. One thing I do not own is a subscription and now I never will. Good luck in BK court Sirius.
 
Paying MORE

Pay more per month and not have the full Sirius / XM package, not worth it in my book.

Heck I rarely turn on the satellite radio, got it free for a year when I bought the vehicle, if I could transfer my acct to the iPhone than I would but than I'd be draining the battery all day long . And since AT&T is screwing its customer base on the iPhone upgrading and not being able to get a new one with better battery life, makes it even worse.

I think they pulled Howard cause they did not want mommy and daddy to have to worry about little johnny listening to howard, gee if you wrote the app to block out certain channels and password protect it, you mite not have to worry

Not worth it in my opinion, :(
 
If you want Howard, pay for it!

I don't understand some of these replies.... if you want an iphone, you pay the premium for the "privilege" of the exclusive service of AT&T to use it.

Wouldn't the same applies for Howard on SiriusXM. They have the exclusive on his contract, why not charge something more for this service? Think of it like a "tethering plan" for an additional $30 per month from ATT (or whatever they will be charging when its available). How is this ANY different?

I can't blame Sirius for this decision at all. Heck, if people can afford the premium iphone and subscription services, I'm certain most of these people who are also true Howard fans can afford the few extra bucks per month.

It's what needs to happen to make a profit.... compare it to any so-called "free" radio over the am/fm, streaming etc. Somebody has to get paid to provide the service, and I don't see Clear Channel (as they are very close in filing for bankruptcy protection) making money right now as they and other similar companies are feverishly scrambling to restructure debt.

Life is unfair - yes, but we all have to deal with it.
 
second comment after downloading....
this app blows. it played for about 30 seconds and then just buffers endlessly.
This is the app that got approved and not Jason Millards Star Playr. what a joke.
 
Slidemonster said:
I don't understand some of these replies.... if you want an iphone, you pay the premium for the "privilege" of the exclusive service of AT&T to use it.

Wouldn't the same applies for Howard on SiriusXM. They have the exclusive on his contract, why not charge something more for this service? Think of it like a "tethering plan" for an additional $30 per month from ATT (or whatever they will be charging when its available). How is this ANY different?

I can't blame Sirius for this decision at all. Heck, if people can afford the premium iphone and subscription services, I'm certain most of these people who are also true Howard fans can afford the few extra bucks per month.

It's what needs to happen to make a profit.... compare it to any so-called "free" radio over the am/fm, streaming etc. Somebody has to get paid to provide the service, and I don't see Clear Channel (as they are very close in filing for bankruptcy protection) making money right now as they and other similar companies are feverishly scrambling to restructure debt.

Life is unfair - yes, but we all have to deal with it.
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What about this are you not understanding? I already pay a subscription per month to Sirius. They want me to pay even more now to access this via my phone (fine) but on top of that, they aren't giving me the ability to listen to Howard which is pretty much the only reason I signed up in the first place. This app is useless to me. A sirius fail.
 
No Howard is very, very dumb. They could potentially get lots of iPhone owners to pay $12.95 a month for their Internet Radio only sub if he was available.

And the person that said some of the music channels have commercials is dead wrong. All of the talk channels have commercials, but none of the music channels.

And you think an Adam & Eve commercial is offensive? If that is the case, you probably shouldn't listen to any radio because you are probably offended by almost everything.
 
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