Satellite radio question

[GreenPartyVoter]

My husband is on the road all day long week in and week out. He is looking for some light and interesting talk radio to tune in while driving (NOT political, though).

He particularly enjoys to weekend programming on NPR and wishes they played the same sort of stuff during the week. Do satellite radio stations carry anything like NPR's weekend edition on the weekdays? (Tf they do, he would probably be interested in shelling out the $$ for a sat radio system)

Thanks!

~Jen

[rawtribe]

1. Sirius only choice

If he is going to get satellite radio the only choice is www.sirius.com when it comes to talk. They have NPR and radio left. All the talk on XM is ultra right crap, no NPR.

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[cjbuchanan]

2. Here is information on NPR and satellite radio

some NPR is on Sirius Radio
http://sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=Page&cid=1065475754139
(scroll down for the two NPR listings)

XM does not have NPR, but they do have BBC world
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/neighborhood.jsp?hood=news

I have a number of friends who have sirius and love it.

Best of luck.

CJB

[NicoleM]

3. Sirius is awesome.

They have, among other things, two NPR streams, BBC World News, several talk radio streams, CNN Headline News, four Weather Channels. . .

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Thanks, guys

it looks like he's going to go with XM since he likes more of what they are offering for programming. (As far as NPR goes, all he has to do is flip back to FM. And he doesn't get into political talk racio like I do, so he doesn't care that XM doesn't have it.)

Also, every review he's gotten his hands on that has compared the two says that the compression rate on XM's music is better than that of Sirius.