If you subscribe to either, you can get many of their channels free over the internet (usually just the music channels) or you can pay an additional couple bucks a month and stream all of them.

I never used one of Sirius' portable solutions, but I think you have to basically download a stream to the player and then listen to it....I always wondered how you could get the music on a portable player without satellite view.

I have had Sirius for a couple years now and love it.



>They are expected to merge, their combined talent pool to be available to either customer base (although it may go ala-carte)
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>http://investor.sirius.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=230306
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>Although I agree with Dennis, I don't expect to be paying for a radio subscription anytime soon.
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>Hi, thanks....yeah, I'd heard about the expected merge, though I wonder how the offerings will go after that.
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>I can get some of these stations for free when I'm connected online, but what would be great (for me personally) is the portable capability