Four CBC stations no longer on SiriusXM

[Theater of My Mind]

CBC Radio 3 (100% Canadian indie music channel), CBC Country and two French language CBC music stations were removed from SiriusXM on October 1.

These were niche music channels playing some obscure Canadian content. The first mention I saw was today in an article linked on twitter, 3 weeks after they were dropped.

CBC Radio 3 Is No Longer Available on SiriusXM | Exclaim!

CBC Radio 3 is officially no longer available on SiriusXM satellite radio. As of October 1, programming changes mean that the channel (16...

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It's unclear why the partnership ended but CBC has its own streaming platform within Canada and probably does not need to be on SiriusXM these days. CBCs specialty music stream offerings have also vastly expanded since those original channels were introduced on satellite. It looks like Radio One, CBC's main news and public affairs station, is the last remaining CBC channel on SiriusXM.

Did anything else get dropped or reshuffled besides CBC and the Garth channel this month?

 

[Gregg.]

I always wondered why SiriusXM never had access to two over-the-air networks: CBC Music and Ici Musique. CBC Radio One and Ici Radio-Canada have channels for their primary services. And as said above, until this month, there were a couple of other CBC/SRC on-line channels playing music. Did they have DJs?

I see there are still 10 Canadian channels, according to the SiriusXM program guide. Having ten Canadian channels is probably a condition that SiriusXM is able to market itself in Canada. So I suppose SiriusXM management replaced those now-removed CBC/SRC Canadian music channels with ones they program themselves.

I don't speak French but others on this board say Channel 170 is pretty what you would hear on CBF-FM Montreal, the flagship for Ici Radio-Canada. Is that true? But Channel 169 CBC Radio One only follows the over-the-air network sometimes. Other times, Sirius repeats a show from earlier in the week because numerous hours on CBC are programmed locally or within a province.

 

[CTListener]

Is SXM still broadcasting all of its Canadian channels in mono?

I wonder about the source of the new Canadian channels. SXM has been reluctant of late to develop new in-house channels, especially if they require air talent, preferring to outsource them, or even have content provider pay SXM for the bandwidth (single-artist channels, for example). Does SXM even have studios in Canada?

 

[Theater of My Mind]

I was always under the impression that the Canadian channels were offered solely to fulfill the government's Canadian content requirements, that they were outsourced to Canadian producers, mostly automated with shoestring budgets, and given the lowest amount of bandwidth. That's just my perception, though.

 

[BomberOtt]

I enjoyed CBC Country, and the Franco Country station was an interesting novelty

 

[CTListener]

I was always under the impression that the Canadian channels were offered solely to fulfill the government's Canadian content requirements, that they were outsourced to Canadian producers, mostly automated with shoestring budgets, and given the lowest amount of bandwidth. That's just my perception, though.

Mine, too. No offense to the many excellent Canadian recording artists, but the small population and relatively underdeveloped music industry in Canada mean lots of inferior CanCon must be played in every musical format. I wonder how many Canadian subscribers ever listen to the Canadian music channels. I suppose there are French-speaking subscribers who have nothing else in their language to choose from, but how many of them could there be? They can't even get NHL games in French, except for Montreal games.