Seriously though, it's all in an effort to make money (duh!). XM already flashes ads on the text screen on the non-music stations which really doesn't bother me. I usually listen to the music stations anyways (Squizz!) , and once in a while you get an ad for a band's new album but it's usually tied to a promo or something that XM or the station is sponsoring.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Seriously though, it's all in an effort to make money (duh!). XM already flashes ads on the text screen on the non-music stations which really doesn't bother me. I usually listen to the music stations anyways (Squizz!) , and once in a while you get an ad for a band's new album but it's usually tied to a promo or something that XM or the station is sponsoring.