I thoroughly enjoy the Sirius radio The Wife got me for Christmas last year. The few times I've listened to local radio in my car during the past year have been during severe weather situations and listening to the NLCS (Sirius rival XM has the Major League Baseball license).
You're allowed to save 30 channels on your presets, and mine are - I think - pretty varied. They skew heavily towards the "rock" category and away from newer music, but I'm not quite old enough to sneer at everything released in the last few years. Yet.
Of course, Sirius' conception of "rock" often differs from mine in significant ways. Take the Disorder channel, for example, which bills itself as "Eclectic/Free Form." First of all, I've discovered that "eclectic" is one of thse adjectives (like "cool" or "well-endowed") you can't apply to yourself. If someone looks at your CD collection/iTunes catalog and decrees it "eclectic," so be it, and Sirius should probably take this to heart, especially when they play Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" on a so-labeled channel. The last time Billy Joel was remotely "eclectic" was when he dressed like a barbarian on the Attila album cover.
Therefore, I demand a full and thorough accounting of who was in charge of programming that day. And I want a dimmer setting for the text display on my receiver. That way, when I'm singing along to the aforementioned song, everyone sitting at the traffic light with me won't point and laugh when they see what song is causing me to dork out in my car.
My car, Ted, came with a Sirius radio. There are about 30 stations on it and I haven't been arsed to reset them to the channels I want.
They don't have an all-bagpipe channel at all. Or even a "Mostly Bagpipes" category.
Don't worry, Pete. *snicker* No one will notice...
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
(Comments made in a playfully jesting manner that's jestfully...yeah, I give up)