XM started out with commercials everywhere. Sirius did us all a favor and gave us commercial-free music from the start. Still, some of the syndicated content and a lot of the talk channels have at least some commercials. Talk radio (which I generally dont like) seems to 'need' commercial breaks (or some sort of break) because of how it operates. I dont mind ads that promote station content. I just cannot stomach the typical, lowest-common-denominator advertising that seems to be everywhere. Certain levels of LJ blogs even have ads. I use a finely tuned filter to eliminate almost all web advertising. I gave up on commercial television because of the ads. I even boycott certain products because of lame advertising, though luckily a lot of those products are of no interest to me anyway.

There is more and more talk and movement towards merging Sirius and XM into one unit. Once that happens, two things I will guarantee will happen. The rates will rise, and advertising will blanket the channels. And I will have no choice but to drop the services and scrap the hardware.