If a few commercial channels keep the subsciption price down, then so be it. I think there are five comedy channels, so if there’s an ad on one, I just jump to another. You can always block those channels with ads and then act like they don’t even exist. Most of the music channels with commercials are light rock. There are several other light rock non-commercial ones to listen to. The vast majority of channels are ad free. I love my XM!