Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:34:07 -0400
Reply-To: tim <h2oboxer@OPTONLINE.NET>
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From: tim <h2oboxer@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject: Re: OT - Elvis Radio - All Elvis, all the time
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Caverat,
It seems like the only time you post to the list is when you are
shilling for Sirius. You've made 39 posts and 35 of them are pushing
Sirius satellite radio. Are you like that guy on TV that "unofficially"
works for Wendy's.
I'm glad you like your satellite radio service. I, myself am a XM
subscriber. But that has no bearing on the discussion.
Lighten up on the sales pitch.
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of caverat
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:52 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: OT - Elvis Radio - All Elvis, all the time
> Unfortunately they dumped my 2 favorite channels and were
> most unreceptive to my suggestions to bring the format back.
> I have seen a steady degradation of Sirius programming over the last
10
> months. Sirius is great if you like hardrock, sports or partyline
conservative talk
> shows. It doesn't offer much for someone like me. I'm looking at this
post
> as OT spam.
Sorry to hear you didn't like the service. With over 100 channels, most
people will find several that they like. I personally think the
programming has improved, and I never listen to the hardrock, sports, or
partyline conservative talk shows. There are many other options that I
like better. They have dropped not-as-popular channels and added new
ones in their place. Several more channel changes are coming in a few
days. They do listen to all suggestions though, but they make channel
content decisions for business reasons to attract more people to the
service. Here's a customer service response posted on a newsgroup to
their approach:
"We do our best to accommodate all of our
listeners and their wants and needs. In having to deal with a large
audience (all of America) we do our best to appeal to the most of our
subscribers and visitors, as we consider our customers in every move we
make. As SIRIUS does not add commercials to our music streams, changes
and additions to our service and website are driven by our customers
rather than dictated by advertisers and we are forwarding your comments
to our programming team for review. We rely on the input of all of our
subscribers as every minor consideration is still a consideration we
want to be able to make.
We are dedicated to providing quality service and customer satisfaction.
We encourage comments on how we can improve our service."
Even though you consider it spam, it is not intended to be. It may be
somewhat off topic, but to me it also has to do with making a vanagon
driving experience even more enjoyable. The Elvis Radio item is getting
a lot of press, and I figured there must be a least one listmember who
would be interested in the news.