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60s on 6 moving to channel 73, changing name to 60s Gold.

Are the 60s really less popular than The Coffee House? I can't imagine the likes of Sara Bareilles being more popular than the Supremes.

And now Sirius XM no longer has a Soft AC choice, as Sirius XM Love moves to online-only. The Blend may play a lot of lite 80s/90s songs, but you have to go through the channel's unhealthy obsession with American Idol contestants like Kelly Clarkson and Chris Daughtry.

And will they fill channel 11 with worthy programming? No more Artist channels, please; anybody can fire up Spotify and choose an artist to play on shuffle.
 
victorres43 said:
Are the 60s really less popular than The Coffee House? I can't imagine the likes of Sara Bareilles being more popular than the Supremes.

And now Sirius XM no longer has a Soft AC choice, as Sirius XM Love moves to online-only. The Blend may play a lot of lite 80s/90s songs, but you have to go through the channel's unhealthy obsession with American Idol contestants like Kelly Clarkson and Chris Daughtry.

And will they fill channel 11 with worthy programming? No more Artist channels, please; anybody can fire up Spotify and choose an artist to play on shuffle.
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Artist channels make money and please devoted fans of the artists. Even a cynic like me finds it hard to believe that SXM keeps renewing contracts with Elvis' estate, the rotting corpse of Tom Petty, Pearl Jam's management, Pitbull's one-man corporation, Kenny Chesney's label, etc., strictly for the money without caring if anyone listens. If the single-artist channels were driving away subscribers in numbers that impacted the bottom line, then SXM might just reconsider the policy.

More Bareilles fans than Supremes fans? Why not? There may just be more people who have been fans of hers since the mid-2000s alive right now than people who have been fans of the Supremes, who stopped being relevant in contemporary popular music in the early 1970s. Her fans are in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Their fans are in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Read the actuarial tables and weep.
 
For soft rock, our choice is SXM 17 The Bridge

I am not happy they are moving things, I was not happy when 40's on 4 was sent to the deeps of the menu and renamed ... it made it harder to find in the car when Mom would travel with me.... now that she is a shut in she listens on a Alexa device so she can just say play 40's junction...

My concern is are they going to drop the bit rate and make it sound even crappier than it is already.... and make no mistake about it SXM only has so much bandwidth so there are music offerings that are really low bit rate and it sounds like crap.

I have 3 radios on my account, so I get 3 online log ins, and to tell you the truth the one that renews this month may not be, and I will use one of my 2 remaining online log ins ( one is tied to my Amazon account, the other to my phone) to stream it off my phone instead.... because IMHO that is what they want us to do..... they would rather have us stream it like Pandora and not have to send birds into space.

I just put a new radio in my 2007 Mustang, it has Android Auto, I don't drive the car much (2007 w/10K on it, and 2K of that was done this year) so I ripped the SXM radio cradle out and now I just stream when I use that car.

I was an early adopter of XM, I got my first radio in 2003. I am in the 54 to dead demographic and it seems to me they don't care about us anymore. The next step is they will sh*tcan Phlash Phelps and the rest of the DJ's.
 
I meant to post about this a few days ago. A bunch of channels will be moving on November 3rd, including the 50s on 5.
If it were up to me and the folks upstairs insisted on this, I would put the 40s on 74, the 50s on 75, the 60s on 76, etc, and keep moving the decades channels up to the new decades family every few years and put classical and childrens channels either in the eighties or on 70-73.
 
Most music channels on XM sound like crap should stream all the music channel at 160kbps AAC with good stereo tool settings. Most of the music channels sound like a bad 80kbps or 96kbps MP3. All the talk news comedy sports channels should stream at 96kbpa AAC with good stereo tool settings. XM needs to get rid of like 30 to 40 channels a lot of them are sports channel that are not even 24/7 these channels just run a 7 second message over and over again. XM does not need 4 Trap Swag new rap station really only need at most 2.

I run a internet radio station Phat Beats Radio that streams at 160kbps with good stereo tool settings and it sound sreally good. So if XM want like 50 channels to sound better run the same stereo tool settings on all channels and like I said before dump 30 to 40 channels.
 
Yes, and they have all those "Extra Channels" where they have concocted every combination of music mixes that are known to Man. All the "Music Discovery" channels are new music and repeat after only a few hours, so if they want to combine something they should look there so there is less repetition. Most of the new music seems to crossover into another genre anyway.
 
My guess is with a free sample period coming up, SXM wants to put their seasonal and specialty channels sooner in the channel line-up. Part of that is because someone who isn't familiar with SXM, may start at lower channel numbers and sample channels up from there. A listener under 55 probably wouldn't be interested in hearing 40's standards, Gawd awful Doo-Wop, or 60's tunes anyway.
Remaining fan's of those decade channels will always seek them out, no matter where you park them.
 
Kelly A said:
My guess is with a free sample period coming up, SXM wants to put their seasonal and specialty channels sooner in the channel line-up. Part of that is because someone who isn't familiar with SXM, may start at lower channel numbers and sample channels up from there. A listener under 55 probably wouldn't be interested in hearing 40's standards, Gawd awful Doo-Wop, or 60's tunes anyway.
Remaining fan's of those decade channels will always seek them out, no matter where you park them.
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That's something I didn't think of.
 
CTListener said:
More Bareilles fans than Supremes fans? Why not? There may just be more people who have been fans of hers since the mid-2000s alive right now than people who have been fans of the Supremes, who stopped being relevant in contemporary popular music in the early 1970s. Her fans are in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Their fans are in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Read the actuarial tables and weep.
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Even though the Supremes are a very old act, and listening demographics do change over time, I'm not sure if I can really agree in this case. It's not as if the Supremes are Goodwill filler like James Last and Mantovani. People that don't follow music seem to be familiar with You Can't Hurry Love, Baby Love, and Stop! In the Name of Love. I'm not sure if we can say the same for Sara Bareilles, Matt Nathanson, Mat Kearney, or Ingrid Michaelson; the aforementioned artists tend to have a rather focused, monolithic audience.

In addition, the music of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones still attract a worldwide audience to this day, despite being 60s bands. And Motown songs are still fairly popular.
 
I cancelled my SiriusXM shortly after the pandemic, when I lost my job.
Driving my wife's car tonight, I was shocked to discover 60s on 6 was gone. It took a while to search for it.
Not a good move.
I won't be returning to subscribing anytime soon.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
That anecdote doesn’t indicate the realignment was poor business.
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As we speak I'm listening to the 60s Satellite Survey on demand, like I do at some point most weeks. The preset for 60s Gold in my wife's car is exactly where it always was (except our first 3 presets are channels 73, 7 and 8. All the programming and jocks are still there. The move has impacted my life almost zero.
 
Dondd said:
I cancelled my SiriusXM shortly after the pandemic, when I lost my job.
Driving my wife's car tonight, I was shocked to discover 60s on 6 was gone. It took a while to search for it.
Not a good move.
I won't be returning to subscribing anytime soon.
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Now wait a second! You found 60s on 6, under its new name, after searching for it for "a while." And that momentary inconvenience was enough to put you off subscribing? Why? You now know that it's on Channel 73. What's the long-term problem?
 
Dondd said:
I cancelled my SiriusXM shortly after the pandemic, when I lost my job.
Driving my wife's car tonight, I was shocked to discover 60s on 6 was gone. It took a while to search for it.
Not a good move.
I won't be returning to subscribing anytime soon.
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Because they moved the channel? News flash: Nothing ever stays the same.
But, come to think of it.. That's a nice out for not being able to afford a subscription.
 
I really don't understand why they moved it. It's kind of like Low VHF analog stations, most of which are on UHF now, still identifying as Channel 2, 4, etc. The channel doesn't reflect any reality anyway. It's arbitrary. Why change it?
 
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