I could be wrong, and I'm sure you'll let me know if I am, but it soundd like you just weren't familiar enough with the Sirius lineup card.

The stations are grouped together by genre. And I find it very easy to flip around. On the tuner I have there's 9 preset buttons, and 3 bands for a total of 27 presets.

On band A, I have the political talk stations and Howard Stern in the first couple buttons. And sports talk stations and comedy in the rest of the buttons.

On band B, I have music. And even if I can't find a music station playing what I feel like listening to using the presets, I can turn the dial to go 1 station at a time.

They've added a bunch of good stations I like, so I have to set band C soon. But especially on a long drive, I've never really had a problem finding a station to tune to and leave it at for a while.



>>I have to ask, what do you like to listen to that you couldn't find 1 station that fit your criteria?
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>Both my car and kitchen radios are usually on NPR. They get switched for baseball and, to a lesser extent, football (which I'd rather watch on TV than listen to).
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>Musically, I like an eclectic mix of music from the 50's on forward, plus classical and some Broadway. (My iPod playlist ranges from Beethoven and Mozart to Buddy Holly to Meat Loaf.)
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>We only had the Sirius rental for about a day, so it might have been that over time, we'd have found a few stations worth returning to, but I found the "channel-flipping" I did in that car no more productive than scanning the on-air stations for something to listen to.
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>Years and years ago (in the days before cars had even cassette players), when Marshal and I took long car trips, we developer our "two-song" test. If we found a station playing something we liked, we listen and then see what came next. If there were two in a row we liked, we'd leave the car on that station, even through ads, until either it became clear that was an aberration or we got out of range. I don't think any of the Sirius stations passed the two-song test. (FWIW, few over-the-air stations do, either, these days.)
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>Tamar