Poll: Are you angry about XM Fungus (and Sirius Punk)?

Bring back the Abba channel .

i am furios that bubba wasn't put on that station

It annoys me when they replace any of the regular channels with a one band theme.

Do Sirius Punk fans get to participate?

I do tune in twice a week, for "Duped" and for "Skanorreah." I will miss those shows quite a bit, especially the latter. So, I will mark 'yes,' I guess. Though I love me some AC/DC.

I've never listened to Fungus but these artist channels are just stupid and I'm tired of XM taking channels off the air "temporarily" for months at a time.

I'm equally pissed off about losing (the far better named) Sirius Punk channel as well.

I love ACDC. Grew up with them. Highway To Hell. Back In Black. Those are the albums of my youth.

I won't be buying anything from them now or ever again, however.

don't care. if the deal makes sense financially, then i'm for it. i've had channels i liked removed or replaced, so it's about time the punk slackers have to share some of the pain.

Just sent this feedback to XM (pretending that someone there actually cares):

While I'm not a Fungus listener, I am annoyed any time XM or Sirius dedicates an entire channel to only one artist. Currently, UPOP 29, The Move 81, and now Fungus are gone just to make room for AC/DC & Metalica. I do enjoy music from both of these bands, but if I only wanted to listen to these two bands, then I would just use a CD or iPod.

I voted yes because I HATE single artist channels. I don't listen to Fungus at all.

I'm furious. The genius of Lou Brutus has (yet again) been taken from the satellite radio airwaves, even if only temporarily. If Sirius-XM feels the need to have single-artist channels, they should dedicate ONE channel for the purpose, and have a single artist on that channel for however long they deem appropriate before replacing with the next single artist to be on the channel, rather than temporarily replacing the regular channels to fit these other channels in.

Who gives a frak about AC/DC? I mean, everybody that does care is so stoned that have the beard of ZZ Top and they live in the hills of Tennessee with their 6 wives, 5 of whom are they're daughters.

There's the breakdown of AC/DC listeners for you. Now us Punk fans are awesome people. See Jason Ellis, and other totally awesome people.

"if the deal makes sense financially"

Exactly!

Financially speaking of course... Can someone please tell me, in this market, what bank would have given a loan to XM and Sirius if they didn't merge?

Be thankful that you still hear sound coming from your speakers, maybe turn it to the 40's station and pretend you have just come out of the great depression.

We are not heading into a recession, we are heading into a depression, and we still have people thinking it will get better. Guys wake up and be thankful that you have $142.45 to spend on ONE SET OF CHANNELS, and another 142.44 for the other.

Because, god forbid, we wouldn't want to have ONE SET OF CHANNELS and a company that turns a PROFIT.

How dare we see a 3+ billion dollar loss in Market Cap and take away some channels!

Cry baby! Cry! But look on the bright side, you still got 14 channels of country! Yeeeee HA!

Did someone say Merger?

I'm with Mike. I've thought that makes tons of sense and you can have one artist per month and generate tons of payola.

Fungus is a channel you won't find anywhere else on the XM dial, the same I assume can be said for Sirius and their punk channel. it's not just punk music, it's ska, surf, rockabilly, etc.

Slacker's coming to my blackberry, the only thing I may miss about XM is MLB and Bob Dylan. I have some thinking to do.

I voted yes because I HATE single artist channels. I don't listen to Fungus at all.

I bought a brand new car stereo equipped with XM afterhearing Fungus on a friend's XM radio & loved it & listened to it constantly for the last 3 1/2 years. Yesterday morning I was very pissed off to find it gone and can't f igure why they couldn't use one of the metal stations for their ACDC fest. I called last night to cancel my service, the folks I spoke to told me that Fungus would be back on Jan 15th so I told them OK, can I put my service on hiatus, I don't want to pay for it while I'm not listening to it. They told me if I did I'd have to pay a $15 set up fee when I reconnected - I said well that's better than paying for several months I don't use. They tried to sell me a full year for $77 so I'd get 6 months free - I told them I didn't trust them enough that my fav station would be back to pay that much up front. They finally offered to give me 3 months free and not charge me again until January 2009 - I figure if Fungus is not back on Jan 15th as promised then I will permanently cancel my service. Maybe if more people voted with their feet they'd listen more.

single artist channels blow in general, i got an ipod if i want to hear a lot from one artist. there are a few options that i can see.

1)instead of putting a single artist channel on for a month or longer, how about a few days, on a channel that best fits that genre of music.

2) you have one single artist channel. that is the only channel you can tie up with programming from one artist. I don't care how long an artist is on that channel, but you just get one channel. if you need to cut a channel to make room for this, axe one of the hits channels.... I would imagine that is where the most repetitiveness is as far as programming.

The problem is you can't take away the hits channels because they have more listeners.

Because, god forbid, we wouldn't want to have ONE SET OF CHANNELS and a company that turns a PROFIT.

How dare we see a 3+ billion dollar loss in Market Cap and take away some channels!

Cry baby! Cry! But look on the bright side, you still got 14 channels of country! Yeeeee HA!

Did someone say Merger?

You keep forgetting that the customers are supposed to be king, not the stockholders.

Again, like we've said before, mergers take time to accomplish. I don't see why you think you can gut everything like a pig and have one unified service within 30 days of time.

Complaining about a dedicated artist channel makes sense. If SatRad starts turning into a series of "payola channels", it's going to piss off a lot of people who want to listen to a wider variety and less commercials than terrestrial radio has become. I think there should be some concerns about this trend.

Love AC/DC, but I hate ANY single artist channels. Variety in musical genres is what I am paying my dual subscriptions for! You listening program managers???

sistinas:

Very nice move.

I was a subscriber to XM for almost 5 years and an avid fan of Fungus. My kid knows more NOFX songs than nursery rhymes. I was also offered the 3 months free plan when I called to cancel yesterday. I explained that I've moved satelite TV twice because of channel shuffling and that there is ALWAYS a better deal when you sign up later. I encourage all listeners and lovers of Punk to get out of Sirius and XM until they pull their heads out. Make them know you're pissed and quit giving them your cash!

I really don't listen to fungus that much, I'm just tired of having to sacrifice a channel to the idea of one band getting their own channel for three or four months.. why can't they take a few days on a channel that makes sense to have.. like in the case of ac/dc they could have boneyard for a couple of days and then put their music into heavy rotation there as well as deep tracks.. same with any other band they do this with.. give them a few days after the new album is released and then put them into a heavy rotation with other bands...

Sorry; stockholders first.

Besides, the combined service only needs one punk channel, but AC/DC can stay as long as they are contributing to the bottom line. The most important thing for SiriusXM at this point is turning a profit. As soon as they break even, all sorts of good things can happen.

In the meantime, let's remember that punk ain't selling subs...

Did they have to replace both country channels!? if they wanted to replace one, fine. But couldn't they have replaced a country channel or something on the other service?

Did they have to replace both punk channels!? if they wanted to replace one, fine. But couldn't they have replaced a country channel or something on the other service?

Mat: you really miss the point. an AC/DC channel is going to sell the subs also?

while punk may not be a huge listened to genre, it is a good example of what makes sat rad so much different from terrestrial. but, lets just get rid of all the niche channels, make everything a hits channel that you can hear on any station at any given moment and call it good.

I am sure that there are a lot of other channels that aren't quite selling subs either, so by your rationalization, we should get rid of all these niche channels that aren't selling subs and replace them all with single artist channels. i am sure there are many techno/dance, latin, as well as some rock, country and urban channels that dont bring in a lot of subs that we can get rid of. How about brign for you rap fans "Diddy radio" and get rid of one of the rap channels, replace ethel or luch with "pearl jam radio" and so forth.

ahhh thats better

"Complaining about a dedicated artist channel makes sense. If SatRad starts turning into a series of "payola channels", it's going to piss off a lot of people who want to listen to a wider variety and less commercials than terrestrial radio has become. I think there should be some concerns about this trend. "

Am i wrong or did this trend begin on XM when the merger talk started... I Sure don't remember this happening before.....and if it did, definitely not as much as it does now.

Sorry; stockholders first.

Besides, the combined service only needs one punk channel, but AC/DC can stay as long as they are contributing to the bottom line. The most important thing for SiriusXM at this point is turning a profit. As soon as they break even, all sorts of good things can happen.

No, customers first. Without stockholders a company can continue. Without customers the company really can't.

The problem with single channels for artists are as follows.

1) Most artists don't have a big catalog of songs, so it's hard to fill them with material.

2) I guess I need to know if XM is doing this pro-bono or if record companies are paying for this. If it's the former I can understand, but if it's the latter, then that gets dangerous, because what's happening is XM is thinking short-term profit over long-term credibility. One reason people went to SatRad because they didn't like the over-commercialized crap that happened when PDs and GMs and MDs all made the wrong decisions and stuffed us with commercials.

All this does is bring the infomercial mentality to radio. How many people actually watch the infomercials?! Probably very few, yet TV stations around the country have filled up their stuff with this, creeping away from syndicated shows and stuff consumers are interested in. XM and Sirius have to be careful because displacing content can be a dangerous thing. If my favorite so-called "niche programing" gets replaced with what amounts to being infomercial channels for a band then it's less likely I want to get SatRad.

"In the meantime, let's remember that punk ain't selling subs..."

In the meantime, let's remember that lack of punk is making Sirius-XM lose subs.

I cancelled mine yesterday after being a subscriber for just over 3 years. I was sick of the single-artist channels replacing existing genre channels and I voted with my wallet. I have no interest in their service any longer.

They say its temporary, but here's the email I got back from XM when I complained - sure sounds like a PERMANENT removal to me!

QUOTE======================
Thank you for writing in about the demise of Fungus 53.

I’ve copied the letter regarding the elimination of the punk format from our SVP of Music Programming Jon Zellner below.

Hope this answers your question about the cancellation. If you have any other questions please feel free to write back.

(begin letter from Jon Zellner)

Thanks so much for taking the time to write with your comments on XM 53 Fungus.

We recognize and appreciate the fact that Fungus and punk, ska and hardcore has loyal fans like you, but because we have limited space on our platform for music channels, we’re often faced with having to make difficult decisions when it comes to what’s available on our channel line-up. Fungus was one of the channels that had a very loyal but also a very limited audience.

Some of the music heard on Fungus can be heard on other XM channels including Fred (XM 44) and Ethel (XM 47).

Again, we appreciate you being a fan of Fungus and hope you listened to enough other XM channels to stick around as a subscriber.

Thanks again for writing and for being part of the XM Nation.

Best regards,

Jon

Jon Zellner

SVP Music Programming

Sirius XM Radio
(end letter from Jon Zellner)

If you have any other questions please feel free to write back.

Thanks,

LOU BRUTUS

ENDQOUTE=======================

I think I'll be cancelling tonight. Like others have observed, I've got an iPod and with the active podcasts out there along with other free music, I've more than enough choices for my listening.

What did you expect from the Monopoly?

You all better get used to the Monopoly making unilateral programming decisions that benefit the shareholder, not the subscriber.

All that matters is the Monopoly satisfying the shareholders. (This is what all you merger freaks wanted after all.)

JRT - customers are becoming very happy right now, right? New customers (kids today) love buying 2 channel sets for $286.00 a year! It's well worth it!!! They love the 14 country channels, and no punk (ska, etc) channels. Way to go, JRT.

Please think a bit harder about the screw the stock holders thought process. Investors are customers as well, and there are a HUGE number of shareholders that are pissed off! (unless they bought at .68 cents today)

Great advice, and keep up the good work.

I think, if given the choice, subscribers would rather have the best radio on radio, then FM.

P.S. It took HP 30 days to announce 25,000 jobs cuts at EDS. How many XM employees are going? Hmmm, I haven't heard that number, YET!

ONE RADIO. ONE CHANNEL SET.
(it's possible to do things quickly, when you stop thinking like a slug)

Sooooooo pissed!

I just got XM Radio and the Fungus is almost the only good channel worth listening to.Then AC/DC had to take that channel.They are already played at least 20 times a day on every rock station.Now they have to have their own station.What a bunch of dooshebags,bring back the Fungus,if they really must have their own radio station,give them one of those 100 sports channels.

If you are a big fan of a big artist, chances are your i-pod is already full of them. So listen to that! Single Artist channels are a waste of space for Sirius. Nothing against Angus & CO., but BRING BACK THE PUNK!

What? Fred and Ethel? NFW. I listen to both and never heard Dead Kennedys, NOFX, or Bad Religion on any other channel.

Jon Zellner is an asshole. Plain and simple.

I am furious that my Sirius Xm stock is under a dollar in value per share :(

So you cancel now because punk won't be back on until Jan '09? What are you gonna do when it does come back on line? Not subscribe? Yank out your now no-punk useless radio today and reinstall it in January?

Silly stamp my feet and wah wah over 3 months. BFD. The company DID provide you your punk music for YEARS didn't it? Now you tell them to go FO. Hey, if they don't come through like they said they will THEN tell them to FO is the point.

M

I actualy found alot of really cool stuff to enjoy on xm. Especialy the hockey, the comedy and I can get Coast to Coast AM w/o the horrible reception that terrestrial am radio affords.
I also can 'appreciate' the variety of music for those rare times when the only music that matters is not exactly the music for the occasion. I'm not gonna play fungus when my 60 yr old parents come over for dinner. Sorry mom but, I don't have freedom rock in my cd collection.

BUT THAT AIN'T ENOUGH!!
I bought, my original xm unit 3 years ago because I wanted fungus 53, not all that other stuff I can get on regular radio!
Then I paid $150 for my mi-fi so I could have xm (again for fungus) anywhere.
Then I shelled out like $300 for my pioneer inno when they came out becuase I wanted to record and listen to you guessed it, fungus 53.
Then finaly I shelled out a few hundred more $ to have an xm compatible stereo installed in my new truck I bought 6 months ago, yeah you already know why.
I feel like xm owes my either a big chunk'o change or an explanation (and or apology) not the form letter I recieved after my email complaint to the programming directors.
whose personal emails are:
jon.zellner@xmradio.com
steve.blatter@xmradio.com
for anyone out there that would like to send them their input on the matter

Long story short: So I called XM India this afternoon to cancel my subscription (as someone else said vote with your wallet and I agree) tried hard to understand WTF the rather nice but, let's just say heavily accented fellow (I dunno what the hell this guy was saying or talking about) So, I asked to be transferred back to America, they sent me to Canada, close enough ya know eh.
The lady told me, that I could have three months free if I didn't cancel. Told her no way, then she told me,
"Oh look here that station you like, fungus53 is going to come back January 5, 2009."

I think I was conned, it ain't coming back is it? I gotta remember to cancel (again) so I don't have to pay another cent for what I don't want.

XM 170 channels of what turns you on....unless you get turned on by punk, hardcore or ska!

The Problem with Single Artist Channels

Imagine Sirius XM just announced they are launching an entire channel solely dedicated to your favorite artist. Would you be excited? Probably not. Because if this is your favorite artist you have already heard all of this artist's performances. If you wanted to hear them again, you would just load the songs onto your MP3 player, because you already own all of the albums.

I just can't imagine that there are so many people listening to these single artist channels that it justifies killing a genre specific channel such as Fungus. Especially when that is the only channel of it's type. Also, I will never believe that these channels attract new subscribers. I just don't see a flock (or is it a herd...it's certainly not a pride) of 40 year old stoners running to subscribe because of the AC/DC channel.

In my opinion, satellite radio fans want variety. This is the reason they stopped listening to FM and are willing to pay for satellite radio. It would be interesting to see the statistics showing the number of listeners for these channels.

Sooooooo pissed!!! Multiple channels of Country, moldy Rock, 1950's - 60's - 70's ??? Somebody must like that stuff - but how many channels of it do you need??
24/7 of Metallica / Zep and AC/DC? Great bands, but I don't want to hear more than a couple songs every few days! Fungus was the ONLY station that played the genres of punk / ska / surf / new music. I can listen to over produced, force-fed commercial CRAP on no-pay radio any day of the week.

If Fungus doesn't return, CANCEL YOUR SUB!!!!

I cancelled 2 subs yesterday over this.

Here's an idea:

Since the stock's currently in the tank, the $20 or so you'll save next month from the cancellation will buy about 22 shares of their stock. Easy enough to to on e-trade or something of the like. Enough disgruntled subscribers voting as a bloc of shareholders could have an effect. Destroy 'em from within!!

I've been cussing non-stop since I got in my truck Tuesday morning after Sirius dumped the Punk channel. I voted with my feet, and cancelled my subscription. I will not be back even if they bring back Punk in January 09. If Sirius/XM wants to become the next Clear Channel, that is fine (whore's that they are). But I am not paying money for programming decisions made by tin-eared graph-paper brained accountants. I would sell my stock in protest as well, but it's so worthless now there is not much point.

Bottom line is that it's temporary — they probably could have replaced the XMU channel IMO, but I didn't listen to punk at all either.

OTOH, 24/7 AC/DC is a dream come true.

I actually like the ACDC channel because they are one of my all time fav bands but I sympathize with the punk music fans. that sucks... and of all people to piss off - punk rockers are not the ones you want to do that to!!!

what the hell xm! fungus was unique you can never find a station like that again. driving your car with out fungus is like wresteling a pig in the mud you both get dirty and the pig likes it. im gonna sneak into xm headquarters and dehydrate their president and hold him for ransom, in a pre atomic submarine. please responed commodore scmidlap fans!!!

wow stupid trendy fuckers ac/dc (gay) my fav channel siriuis punk 29 i listen 2 90% of the time gone i Quit fuck sirius and xm and all the trendy channel u here the smae stuff from and fuck howard stern! FEIND FOR LIFE!

Jon Zellner has confirmed that this is NOT temporary.

There will be no punk station on either XM or Sirius.

As this is the case maybe someone can explain why the Customer Service reps for both companies have to lie to people about the situation by saying its only temporary.

Are they that desperate for subs?

When I got in my car last night I checked to see if Fungus was back yet. It wasn't but Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was on. I checked again this morning. No Fungus, but Dirty Deeds again, hell yeah! What an improvement.

FUNGUS IS NOT COMING BACK and this is not temporary. I received confirmation from Jon Zeller today. I am cancelling my 3 subscriptions today!

to anyone that care, you can listen to pandora radio at www.pandora.com and its free, though you cant listen to it in your car. It makes a station based on the bands you give it. Im pissed they took fungus away if they take away the XMLM then im cancelling my subscribtion!

Sirius 29 Punk was my favorite station. I LOVED it. I am very pissed now. I will cancel tomorrow. I'm going to miss the exposure to bands I'd never heard before. Back to Punk compilation disks. FUCK YOU SIRIUS. Without the customers, your business will go down - and the government won't bail you out.

Sign the fungus petition:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/bringbackfungus53

There are several petitions on message boards across the Web. We need to post the above link on as many boards as possible to get one petition with the greatest number of signatures.

Either that or we can all sit in front of TRL for a month straight, consequently becoming brainwashed into "enjoying" whatever the Top 40 list says we should listen to. Joy! I can't wait for the new Britney Spears' album!

From the sounds of it FUNGUS will not be back anytime soon. sign the petitions - send emails direct to Zellner and others at xm and sirius.
Below is the response I got from Zellner after I voiced my concern to him directly.
BOOOOOOO!!

Thanks for the e-mail, Shawn. I do appreciate hearing from you and empathasize with your situation. I also recognize the fact that you're passionate about music. I am as well.

The fact is that the decision to pre-empt or discontinue a channel is never easy. We struggle with these challenges on a daily basis because of the limited space on the network. If space wasn't an issue, we'd offer hundreds of more channels covering every musical genre imaginable. The challenge with Fungus is that is was consistently one of the lowest performing music channels on the network. That doesn't mean the channel didn't have fans or that it wasn't great (I actually listened to Fungus quite a bit and my son did as well), but as our subscriber base grows to nearly 40 million listeners, channels that reach limited audiences become harder to justify.

I hope you take the opportunity to surf through XM's other 170 channels and find something you like. There may be a channel you may have missed in the past.

Again, thank you for writing. I'm sorry you're unhappy with the decision and I hope you'll stick around as a subscriber.

Best regards,

Jon

Jon Zellner
Senior Vice President
Music Programming
Sirius XM Radio
1500 Eckington Place NE
Washington, DC 20002

Channel 161

I didn't even know it existed till this morning, it pretty much exemplfies where xm is headed, sub-boomer ville.

Dumping an entire genre for a single-artist gimmick is a step in the wrong direction. Satellite radio was supposed to give us variety. Instead, we've got (at last count) three single-artist stations, a 'World' category without a World station, and a company that seems more intent on emulating terrestrial radio than competing with it.

I know that I have the opportunity to hear Danity Kane's 'Damaged' on any one of a half-dozen stations. Just like FM. I'm really regretting getting XM at this point.

I would like to say that I am very upset of the latest change on XM radio. I know it is coopreate America. So I guess we are all out of luck. The whole reason I got XM radio was because of Fungus. I have waited so long to hear Punk on the radio. Instead of listening to Punk on some college radio station that you can hardly hear due to the static. So after some person who is not a fan, sitting in his office in a 3 piece suit, drinking his coffee after getting my money and after I signed a contract decides to make changes. I feel due to the change of Fungus I should be aloud to leave my contract without any penalties. Since I am no longer receiving the service I was willing to pay for. If there was not that much of a fan base then it should be no big deal to loose me as a customer. I know they don't really care because customer service doesn't apply. I don't know how a single band has a bigger fan base then a whole genre of music that has been around for 30 plus years. Sombody is obviously paying somebody alot of money. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that ac/dc has a new album out and that they are going on tour? Ha and Metalica has there own station and they have a new album out and they are going on tour? I thought I had a choice I guess I don't.

I too am sooo pissed off that AC/DC has replaced my favorite station. With all the other channels that play all the same old crap, you would think they would choose one of those stations to host a 4 month AC/DC fest. Why, of all the channels did they have to remove the Punk channel? It was the only station I ever listened to. I have been a Sirius customer for almost 3 years now. I have givin almost all the stations a chance in the genre's I like. I finally found a station that I "loved". I am beyond pissed. I plan on cancelling my subscription until they bring my fav. station back. (If that ever happens)It's absolutly obnoxious of them to remove a great station due to it not being as "popular" as other stations and replace it with 24 hours a day 7 days a week of AC/DC. Because, I know so many people that can stomache AC/DC like that and let me tell you, that station will be a hit! Bull! I feel robbed and blindsided. I hate the a-holes that decided this was a "good move". They need to be fired. What is the world coming to?

Petition to gain back Fungus XM 53 - I've cancelled my subscription alongside thousands more.

This was the only good station on XM Radio, it was their ONLY Punk station as well.
By signing this petition you're doing the world a favor and getting rid of AC/DC 24/7 to bring back Fungus, even if you don't listen to this - out of respect for anyone else please sign.
My ears are beginning to bleed from the shit they call music on XM.

i purchased sat radio purely for fungus, simply cancell my subscription, oh yeah hows about an all nickel back channel you stupid cunts, go fuck yourself!

I'm pissed that they cancelled Fungus 53. My two favorite channels are 53 and 202. I don't think I'm going to hear lesser known Less Than Jake or NOFX or Strung Out songs on Fred or Ethel or whatever. I wouldn't be too upset if they pre-empted it for 1 month, but 4 f'n months??? Get real. At least I have the Metallica 51 for the rest of the month. Not sure what I'll listen to come October.

This is the biggest bulls**t ever sirius 29 was the best station ever the only reason i got sirius was 4 that channel. To replace it for a single band station is the most rediculous thing ive ever heard and to top it all off its AC/DC what a joke. I cant stand them for 5 min let alone 24 hours a day. I know plenty of people that r going to cancel their subs cuz of this. Complete fuckin bullshit this was the only place on the radio u could get 24 hours punk rock. FUCK SIRIUS AND XM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jon Zellner, XM's VP of Programming, told me that XM has received a small number of complaints about the cancellation of Fungus and again pointed out that the channel "only" had an audience of "about 200,000 people".

If pople don't complain, XM will have no incentive to change their programming.

please do not give up on this issue .i call them everyday to complain .sirus 29 punk was what got me through the day.rise up and keep up the fight.

I've been an XM subscriber for many years. (I remember when Special X was on the air) I own two receivers and have referred a half dozen or so other listeners. The first preset on both my radios is Fungus 53. I was listening to it when AC/DC Radio started. At the time I thought it was temporary, but every day I switch to Fungus and AC/DC is still on. No band in the world (not the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead or Metallica) is good enough to listen to all day long. Enough with AC/DC Radio. Bring back Fungus. That's the kind of programming that makes people like me pay to listen to the radio. Clearly XM still don't understand their own audience. The airwaves are full of popular music. That's easy to find in any city. It's the unpopular music that people will pay to hear. And without commercials, of course. If Fungus stays off the air, I will be turning off one of my receivers. If XMU and The Verge go away too, I'll turn them both off and go back to buying CDs to feed my iPod.

Don't get me wrong, I like AC/DC just as much as the next guy...but if I needed to listen to their music 24/7 I'd buy an iPod and cram it full of AC/DC music. Fungus was a great alternative that you'd never get on FM radio and introduced me to a lot of music that I wasn't already familiar with. This merger is really causing XM to go down hill fast.

Sign the petition to bring back the Punk channel. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/bringbackfungus53

I cancelled. I can’t even believe they cancel both the punk channels. Even if fungus does come back in jan 09 I will not renew. Fuck them. For that matter fuck all people who don’t like punk. You suck donkey dicks and you’re all bunch if faggot douche bags.

We are organizing. Join us.

Don't make the mistake I made and buy a Sirius Stilleto. Sirius will delete songs you record.

When Sirius changed to their "great new channel line up" this week they deleted all the songs and broadcasts I recorded from the Punk Channel and back spin.

I am very disappointed. First they take the punk channel and turn it into 24/7 ACDC. Then they lie to me (and many others who phoned or wrote to complain) and said punk would be back. Now more good channels are gone. How many talk channels do we need? Do subscribers really want channels that only play one band? Recession or no recession they have shot themselves in the foot, the only advantage they have is being the only show in town. And yes I pay for radio when I am a trucker in Canada where there are no stations at all the satellite can be great. Well it was great, now I have over 100 channels of junk I don't want to hear. But I still have Ellis, Howard (yawn) and half a dozen one band stations :( I will cancel by the end of January if no improvement.

My renewal ran out today, I informed Sirius I was not continuing to pay them after taking away the stations I actually listen to (Sirius Punk, especially). Oh well, just we all gotta wait for the next new innvation to come by.