We, too , have satellite radio and are disappointed in it, although not because of the commercials (we find that the all music stations have no commercials except for concerts while any of the stations with talk on them are riddled with commercials). We are disappointed in the equipment. You buy a kit that has everything you "need" to start listening, but then it doesn't work. You call customer support to get help and they try to sell you another kit. You refuse to buy the other kit because you bought the all inclusive kit, and low and behold, they have a way to fix the problem, but the radio still doesn't come in that clear. We also got the radio for our long drives, but now we find ourselves using it less and less. We can't get clear signals and the static is annoying and the controls are impossible to navigate while driving on both the basic radio and the Stiletto (the top of the line one).

I used to like satalite radio for road trips. I travel between my parents house in NY and mine in MO and it was great because it was constant. My husband and I are just fed up with it now. One of the original perks was it was commercial free. Now there are commercials (what is the point of paying for radio if there is commercials). Not only that but the commercials might as well be porn. Talking about holding an erection and Adam and Eve products. It is embarrasing to list to them no less when we have kids in the vehical. We cancled our subscription but decided on a very long road trip to reactivate it so we had something in the car knowing that the radio stations in the areas we were going did not have the type of music we would like to listen to. My husband calls no problem they tell us 15-20 minutes and it will be activated. We stop for fuel and lunch and forget about it. 3 hours later no radio. Call back ask to speak to a supervisor. Lady argues and refused to send our call to a supervisor. After 45 minutes of arguing she gets our radio activated but still don't let me talk to a supervisor. She said she would take our number and have them call. I knew this was not going to be the truth. Never did hear back but I was gettting tired of arguing. When we get back home we are cancling our subscription for good. I don't get though how the Sirus/XM merge was legal. It makes it a monopoly. Many many years ago they made AT&T break up because of this and now they are working on Microsoft. What will it take to break them up??