XM Satellite Radio listeners that subscribe to avoid listening to annoying advertisements may be annoyed that they are paying to listen to advertisements from Clear Channel Communications.
The ads will be played on certain music channels including KISS, specializing in contemporary hits, and Nashville, a country music station.
XM, like its smaller satellite radio rival Sirius, plays commercials on its talk-show stations, but commercials are an exception to the norm.
XM agreed to air the commercials to resolve a dispute over demands by Clear Channel that XM run ads on stations for which it provides programming.
An XM spokesman insists advertising won’t spread to other music channels. “We are committed to maintaining commercial-free all music channels we program,” he says. Sirius also says that its music channels will remain off-limits to marketers.
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