Country Music on XM

[HenryOchs]

I love Country Music, like Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley. So I need to have XM, because there are no stations in the San Francisco Bay Area that play this genre of music. I love The Nashville 11 channel, because they play great music, and added great shows like AfterMidnite and Big D and Bubba. If MEL decides to get rid of this wonderful channel, I might cancel my XM subscription and buy an ipod touch and switch to iheart radio.

 

[CTListener]

I love Country Music, like Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley. So I need to have XM, because there are no stations in the San Francisco Bay Area that play this genre of music. I love The Nashville 11 channel, because they play great music, and added great shows like AfterMidnite and Big D and Bubba. If MEL decides to get rid of this wonderful channel, I might cancel my XM subscription and buy an ipod touch and switch to iheart radio.

Nashville (XM11) is programmed by Clear Channel and is on XM only because Clear Channel owns the rights to a chunk of bandwidth under terms of an agreement signed when Clear Channel made a sizable investment in XM before the service launched. The agreement apparently was ironclad enough to have survived the merger, even though new CEO Mel Karmazin is no fan of Clear Channel, so XM still has several Clear Channel-programmed stations. In addition to Nashville, they are Kiss, Mix, Pink, Rock@Random, and the newest CC format, Bollywood and Beyond. Clear Channel also provides Fox Sports Radio and some of XM's right-wing talk programming. Bottom line: Nashville is safe until Clear Channel decides it doesn't want to use its XM bandwidth anymore.

 

[livingfruitvirus]

Or unless they decide to throw out the format and replace it with another like they did with Sunny on 24.

 

[smashedcd]

I love Country Music, like Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley. So I need to have XM, because there are no stations in the San Francisco Bay Area that play this genre of music. I love The Nashville 11 channel, because they play great music, and added great shows like AfterMidnite and Big D and Bubba. If MEL decides to get rid of this wonderful channel, I might cancel my XM subscription and buy an ipod touch and switch to iheart radio.

I thought you said you liked country music

 

[TheBigA]

I love Country Music, like Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley. So I need to have XM, because there are no stations in the San Francisco Bay Area that play this genre of music.

Huh? What about KBWF the Wolf 95.7 FM?

If you're closer to San Jose, there's KNTY.

Lots of Carrie, Alan, and Brad 24/7 and no monthly fee.

 

[HenryOchs]

Hey Big A:

The San Jose station you're refering to is 95.3 KRTY, not KNTY. KNTY is a country station based out of Sacramento!

 

[waymar]

This station plays alot of current country songs that mainstream country radio won't touch. True they play Carrie, Taylor and Brad but they seem to play alot of artists that you don't hear on free radio. The only drawback I think is the commercials. They also don't generally play older songs. Those you can hear on the XM 16 & XM 17

 

[CTListener]

This station plays alot of current country songs that mainstream country radio won't touch. True they play Carrie, Taylor and Brad but they seem to play alot of artists that you don't hear on free radio. The only drawback I think is the commercials. They also don't generally play older songs. Those you can hear on the XM 16 & XM 17

That's surprising. I would think XM11's current content would match the stuff Clear Channel pushes on its FMs per orders of the major labels.