80 channels OR 240 channels ???

[Radioimage]

So the CRTC said yes to satellite radio...but for how many channels ?

From an earlier post of this board :
"Also, the satellite companies are only allowed to give subscribers nine non-Canadian channels for every Canadian channel they get. Basically, if you get the 8 Canadian channels, you will only be allowed to subscribe to 72 non-Canadian channels."

Is it possible for you to give me a full explanation ? I will pay the same price than americans but for only 80 channels ? I want the full programming of XM and Sirius...not only a few selected channels...what is that decision ??!!

 

[ian]

> So the CRTC said yes to satellite radio...but for how many
> channels ?
>
> From an earlier post of this board :
> "Also, the satellite companies are only allowed to give
> subscribers nine non-Canadian channels for every Canadian
> channel they get. Basically, if you get the 8 Canadian
> channels, you will only be allowed to subscribe to 72
> non-Canadian channels."
>
> Is it possible for you to give me a full explanation ? I
> will pay the same price than americans but for only 80
> channels ? I want the full programming of XM and
> Sirius...not only a few selected channels...what is that
> decision ??!!
>

Which service has 240? XM is about 150.

But to answer your question, 2 points:
-They're likely not counting the individual traffic and Play by Play channels
-They could potentially decide to lanuch 10 Canadian channels, which would allow almost all of the lineup in.

 

[Radioimage]

> > So the CRTC said yes to satellite radio...but for how many
>
> > channels ?
> >
> > From an earlier post of this board :
> > "Also, the satellite companies are only allowed to give
> > subscribers nine non-Canadian channels for every Canadian
> > channel they get. Basically, if you get the 8 Canadian
> > channels, you will only be allowed to subscribe to 72
> > non-Canadian channels."
> >
> > Is it possible for you to give me a full explanation ? I
> > will pay the same price than americans but for only 80
> > channels ? I want the full programming of XM and
> > Sirius...not only a few selected channels...what is that
> > decision ??!!
> >
>
> Which service has 240? XM is about 150.
>
> But to answer your question, 2 points:
> -They're likely not counting the individual traffic and
> Play by Play channels
> -They could potentially decide to lanuch 10 Canadian
> channels, which would allow almost all of the lineup in.
>

Ok, I checked too fast...
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_listing.jsp?sort=number
There is a channel 247 but I see that there is not always channel between channel 1 and 147...

 

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