For those of you unfortunate enough to subscribe to satellite radio, you know that Sirius bought out XM (if you believe the press releases that say it was a merger, you are way too naive…). And shortly (middle of next month), the Sirius New York programmers begin programming most of the music channels. But right now, you can get a glimpse into the future of satellite radio programming by listening to the Halloween mini-channel, XM Gore, which is nothing but a rebroadcast of Sirius Scream.

Boy, does it suck.

No, I’m not saying that because it’s from Sirius, I’m saying it because it’s true. And I’m not even whining about the lousy sound quality of all the channels now that they’ve dropped everything down to 32kbps so they can shove in the “best” of Sirius (and then sent spam email to those of us refusing marketing email, no less!)…I’m specifically complaining about the uselessness of the Halloween channel. Some specific examples of why it sucks:
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