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NEWS: Japanese Entertainment on Satellite Radio

Hot damn! Ever since they dropped the Chinese channel a few years ago I'd hoped they'd provide something new.

Once you go XM or Sirius, you never go back to FM afterwards. The amount of variety is fantastic and having so many of the channels without commercials is great. I had mine installed a few years ago before my 9 hour drive to Otakon. During the entire trip, I left it on the 80's channel and never heard the same song OR artist twice in that time.

I only hear FM when in my wife's car and it's like torture. I'd rather have programming that I want than what those behind FM want you to have. Especially recently when so many 60's oriented channels have disappeared and gone to the same top forty format.

ChrisBeveridge wrote:

Hot damn! Ever since they dropped the Chinese channel a few years ago I'd hoped they'd provide something new. Once you go XM or Sirius, you never go back to FM afterwards. The amount of variety is fantastic and having so many of the channels without commercials is great. I had mine installed a few years ago before my 9 hour drive to Otakon. During the entire trip, I left it on the 80's channel and never heard the same song OR artist twice in that time. I only hear FM when in my wife's car and it's like torture. I'd rather have programming that I want than what those behind FM want you to have. Especially recently when so many 60's oriented channels have disappeared and gone to the same top forty format.

Maybe if you like the crap they play on there it's better but when I worked at Circuit City I could never find a good channel to listen to before we opened. We had a deal where we could get thet personal unit but I never took it because they didn't have a Jpop channel. Now, if it gets better and I hear people are liking it, I might get it, but I'm still bitter about XM and Sirrius shutting down any chances of a WebRadio company that broadcasted stations from around the world. I would rather hear stations from India and Japan than listen to pop looped back every couple of hours.

Once you go XM or Sirius, you never go back to FM afterwards. The amount of variety is fantastic and having so many of the channels without commercials is great. I had mine installed a few years ago before my 9 hour drive to Otakon. During the entire trip, I left it on the 80's channel and never heard the same song OR artist twice in that time.

I love j-pop and other Japanese music genres but I can easily listen to a lot of other things. I've got like 8 channels preset in my car to XM from a couple of the decades, to dance, to watercolors, talk, comedy and so forth. More than enough variety in the "crap" - especially in comparison to hearing the same thing over and over again on the local FM channels.

I can't listen to FM radio anymore. 22 minutes of commercials an hour is torture. Stations change format so fast these days because they never want to take the time to build a station's local buzz.

ChrisBeveridge wrote:

Once you go XM or Sirius, you never go back to FM afterwards. The amount of variety is fantastic and having so many of the channels without commercials is great. I had mine installed a few years ago before my 9 hour drive to Otakon. During the entire trip, I left it on the 80's channel and never heard the same song OR artist twice in that time.

I can't listen to FM radio anymore. 22 minutes of commercials an hour is torture. Stations change format so fast these days because they never want to take the time to build a station's local buzz. It's all about instant gratification and quarterly listenership more than ever now. And these jockless stations like Jack FM are nothing more than iPods with commercials. I can never seem to get into a station I like anymore because when I rely on it for my daily commute it eventually goes away. Where I am, Clear Channel's been flipping stations the most over the past couple of years. 105.3 flipped 5 times since 2001, 105.7 3 times, 96.7 2 times, 105.1 1 time for no reason.

ChrisBeveridge wrote:

I love j-pop and other Japanese music genres but I can easily listen to a lot of other things. I've got like 8 channels preset in my car to XM from a couple of the decades, to dance, to watercolors, talk, comedy and so forth. More than enough variety in the "crap" - especially in comparison to hearing the same thing over and over again on the local FM channels.

You didn't say High Voltage! WHY DID YOU EXCLUDE HIGH VOLTAGE?!