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When is the Christmas music going to start on XM/Sirius, I have both.... Sirius in car and XM at home, before they combined years back, XM would start after the 31st of October with one channel, then add more on as the holiday was closer, Sirius did not do the same, they only had one or two....last year after the merger (YUCK), it seemed to be the same on XM but on Sirius is was less, they did have one Christmas channel shared and it was good.....my question is how can I find out when it will start this year anyone have any idea....
 
Last year the first holiday channel "Holly" signed on Nov.12th. The other holiday channels started around thanksgiving. Hopefully Sirus/XM will announce their lineup for this year soon.
 
Obtuse1 said:
Sadly that lineup will most likely not contain "Special Xmas".
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as a long time XM sub, I'll bet my entire salary for the rest of the year that Special X isn't included for the holiday season; it wasn't last year, which was the first for the new Siri/XM company
 
They're talking off Escape for Hanukkah Radio - I certainly hope that they have NO intention of not returning Escape, or I will Escape my sub! Also, 40's on 4 is to have the "traditional Christmas" I too hope that they will return to service after the holidays, and I hope they add some bandwidth at Xmas so that they can be stereo for those wide 1960's Ray Conniff stereo Christmas carols!
 
I've been hearing promos the last week 'Sirius Love
will become 'Holly starting November 16th Channel 4 will also go Christmas the same day with more traditional music
 
Not only have they appropriated "Escape", they've also taken the "40's On 4" & channel 23 away for Christmas or "Holiday" music. What are they thinking??? Why take away regular channels? You know they have enough channel capacity to put holiday programming on other channels.

And another thing (this may just be my old programming self coming out) I don't want to hear "Silent Night" before Thanksgiving!! If you must start Christmas music this early, do it with "Happy Holidays", "Jingle Bell Rock", "Jingle Bells", etc. Is anyone home in the programming department at XM (or Sirius)???

This is not what I paid for, and I won't be paying for long at this rate.
 
I'm tired of saying it but for those of you complaining about the channels... don't listen to them. There are plenty of other channels available for your listening pleasure.

Lots of people, including me and my wife, enjoy these channels and look forward to them. Evidently we're not alone, otherwise I doubt they'd do this every year.
 
jo-nathan said:
I'm tired of saying it but for those of you complaining about the channels... don't listen to them. There are plenty of other channels available for your listening pleasure.
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Granted. Unless the channel that you regularly listen to has been appropriated for Christmas programming, that is.

For me, the issue is not having Christmas channels. They could have Christmas channels all year as far as I'm concerned. What I am complaining about, is that rather than <add> channels for the Christmas music as they have in the past, they have decided to <replace> regularly programmed channels with the Christmas content. Fortunately, my primary channel is not one of them - yet. I wonder how many businesses have a commercial account and use "Escape" as background music.

One of the many reasons that I abandoned T radio for Sirius/XM, was because the radio station that I listened to went to an all Christmas all the time format in the middle of November a few years ago, and I didn't have another station to switch to. Sirius/XM is expensive and I would not be at all happy if they replaced the programming of my primary channel with anything, when I know that they have the ability to add temporary channels at will.
 
Exactly my point, woodyrr.

I have nothing against the Christmas channels. As we get closer to the holidays, I will be listening to them.
It's the appropriation of regular channels that makes me angry.

Don't take away someone's favorite channel for 5 or 6 weeks for Christmas music. Put the Christmas music on an additional channel. That would keep everyone happy.

Apparently that is too logical.
 
For those of us that absolutely HATE holiday music and the invasion of it that takes place all over terrestrial radio and the channels WE ARE PAYING FOR on XM ... it's time to flood XM with e-mails. I'm sorry, but in our office someone turns on the local a/c station that starts blaring Burl Ives the first week in November. The point of the matter is XM can take off some of the duplicate formatted channels. Who decides what channels to preempt?
 
GSmitty said:
Exactly my point, woodyrr.

I have nothing against the Christmas channels. As we get closer to the holidays, I will be listening to them.
It's the appropriation of regular channels that makes me angry.

Don't take away someone's favorite channel for 5 or 6 weeks for Christmas music. Put the Christmas music on an additional channel. That would keep everyone happy.

Apparently that is too logical.
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One word: BANDWIDTH. There's not enough of it for SiriXM to dedicate five separate channels for Christmas music AND keep all the existing music channels going. Yes, in previous years, the Christmas music has been on both the pre-empted channels and separate channels, but no extra bandwidth was needed for that trick; the feed on channel 39, for example, was the same feed as the one on channel 23. What you suggest would take an additional chunk of bandwidth for each separate Christmas channel, and that just doesn't work.

Oh, and don't keep deceiving yourselves that you and the "terrestrial listener" are different species. A lot of satellite listeners look forward to Christmas music, too, and have enough favorite music channels to listen to when they're not listening to Christmas tunes that the loss of one of them doesn't send them into the tired, old "WE'RE PAYING FOR THIS" primal scream. We're also paying for sports, talk, news, opinion, and dozens of music channels that are never pre-empted, and none of those aspects of the service are going away for the holidays.
 
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