Jerkules: everything with xmsirius is negotiable. You can get a subscription with them for peanuts if you call them, get an American human (likely) and negotiate. Tell them in these hard times it is hard to justify, etc. You'll get a subscription cheap.

I've had it for over 6 yrs. Every year I call and tell them I will cancel unless they renew at the same rate I started and every year they cave. It's pretty easy to put a reminder in Outlook to remind me to call.

I like the sports coverage during football season as you guys mentioned- the old conference coverage was second to none. I'm curious how it shakes out this year since they seem to be homogenizing everything.

And "Bababooey" and all that jazz... Howard is just not interesting anymore. He only works about 8 days a month if you call his product work.