Comments on: Updated: iPhone Sirius XM Application Now Available But Wait… No Stern?!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:03:26 +0000

I am disappointed whether Howard is on there or not, even though i listen to his show everyday. My problem is, i have a usa siriusxm subscription, but i live in canada, so i cant even download the app for my usa subscription. What a rip off!!

By: waltbfree

waltbfree — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:50:46 +0000

Hello People! The reason that Howard is not on the app is because he is a greedy *******. He said that it is a “contractual issue”. In other words half a billion is not good enough for him, he wants extra to be streamed to the IPhone because it is not implicitly mentioned in his current contract.

By: scarr

scarr — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:59:58 +0000

I just cancelled my account as well. I was really looking forward to this, as I’m not in my car all that much anymore. But as a Canadian subscriber, I can’t use this (plus I’m not paying a cent more then the current subscription charges). Oh well.

By: shout it out

shout it out — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:35:18 +0000

I just tried shoutcast and no go…there are howard 101 channels and one prerecorded stream, but nothing live that I could find. hurry up sirius. I did read that sirius wants to roll out this app sans stern to get a forecasted feel of how many pure sirius subscribers come aboard and then add stern after the app is release to all other smart phone formats. The guesstimate is perhaps a mid-july stern appearance…

By: pat

pat — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:29:13 +0000

I used shoutcast on my palm tx and it was good. At this point, I’m willing to plunk down the 10 bucks to get the app, but I’m afraid that Sirius will now try and roadblock Shoutcast. Sirius really dropped the ball on this one, what the heck were they thinking? Idiots!

By: scott

scott — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:41:46 +0000

Holy smokes! Shoutcast! That’s what Artie was referring indirectly to the other day.

By: Heynow

Heynow — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:28:30 +0000

Do you guys really not know about Shoutcast? Plenty of stations streaming Stern on there. And it’s free.

By: Plasmanut

Plasmanut — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:27:37 +0000

As an XM Canada subscriber, I am setting aside 15 minutes to cancel my subscription. I have been holding on for months waiting for either Starplayr or this to surface. Starplayr sells out (I don’t care what THEY say, they sold out), and now I’m on the outside looking in because of being a Canadian subscriber. I am not paying for PocketTunes either because I’m sure they will lose the ability to stream XM the day I’ll buy it.

What a MAJOR, MAJOR disappoitment.

By: JBenjimin

JBenjimin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:42:16 +0000

Who cares about Stern, NFL, NASCAR or any of the others mentioned. They left out the one that matters most CBC Radio 3. I would have gladly paid $3 a month to be able to listen to CBCR3 when away from the computer.

By: harv

harv — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:23:41 +0000

@firesign, why would he go back to terrestrial? If he is going to keep doing a show it will probably still be a Sirius show. My prediction is that he will go back to his roots of Robin, Fred, and Bababooey. He must be tired of the wackos on his staff and this is his big chance to ditch them

Also, why would stern not want his stream on the iphone app…it’s on the web-based stream already and this is the same thing, same service, just different access point. i wouldn’t think he would see a dime from this. The AT&T theory makes the most sense…after all they are worried MMS will bog their networks down….