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Decade channels

I miss the Top 6 also, then of course, I also miss Friday's Sonic Salute, the Sweet 16 countdowns, the deeper playlists, the Here and There (comparing the British top 10 vs the U.S. top 10 and I even miss "Chickenman"!! :)

Mel, the vampire, has sucked the life and blood out of channel 6; even if his minions cannot think "outside the box", they didn't have to, the programming that was so great was already in place, instead they (in their infinite "wisdom") decided to dismantle it; sort of reminds me when Coca Cola decided to "improve" on the original Coke and came out with the new Coke; at least they (after a period of time) acknowledged their mistake and brought back the original Coke.

drt
 
drt said:
I miss the Top 6 also, then of course, I also miss Friday's Sonic Salute, the Sweet 16 countdowns, the deeper playlists, the Here and There (comparing the British top 10 vs the U.S. top 10 and I even miss "Chickenman"!! :)

Mel, the vampire, has sucked the life and blood out of channel 6; even if his minions cannot think "outside the box", they didn't have to, the programming that was so great was already in place, instead they (in their infinite "wisdom") decided to dismantle it; sort of reminds me when Coca Cola decided to "improve" on the original Coke and came out with the new Coke; at least they (after a period of time) acknowledged their mistake and brought back the original Coke.

drt
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Yeah they took away all the good stuff that made the 60s channel great. I used to enjoy the Top 6 & trying to guess which records might be on that weeks countdown.
 
I finally got a reply to my email about bringing back the Top 6 on the hour on the 60s channel.
They said they'd pass on my request, but there were no plans to brin g it back.
 
radioman148 said:
I finally got a reply to my email about bringing back the Top 6 on the hour on the 60s channel.
They said they'd pass on my request, but there were no plans to brin g it back.
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Yup, that's cuz they're too busy playing the Brian Wilson "Artist Confidential" to death.
 
qunewsguy said:
radioman148 said:
I finally got a reply to my email about bringing back the Top 6 on the hour on the 60s channel.
They said they'd pass on my request, but there were no plans to brin g it back.
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Yup, that's cuz they're too busy playing the Brian Wilson "Artist Confidential" to death.
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So that's their big special of the month.
 
radioman148 said:
CTListener said:
wesdev224 said:
radioman148 said:
donicus said:
I agree, the decades channels have gotten worse. I also noticed last weekend that the 50's and 70's channels were playing 60's music.Not just fringe years (say 1960 or 1969), but one song one the 50's was a song that was on the charts in 1963. Maybe they should just merge all 3 channels into one oldie's station.
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For the last several days I've heard "Bend Me Shape Me" and "Spirit In The Sky" over & over on the 60s channel.
It's almost like being back in that week in the 60s & hearing WLS or WABC play those songs over & over again because they were popular at the time.
Don't these people realize that there is alot more music that can be played?
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The braintrust at Sirius is not smart enough to think out of the box. Mel and his minions are not smart enough to program alternative broadcasting to terrestrial radio, so the answer was to take a non terrestrial entity and recast it as a commercial free FM-esque entity. That's the only way they were able to understand and run the thing. Which is a real shame, because they totally destroyed the superior XM in the process. They should havew just eliminated all Sirius programming and went with XM. They should have left it intact, but no, they couldn't help but f*ck with it. Now, XM is no better than the mongrel Sirius.
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Or ... Mel and his minions compared the number of subscribers XM, with Lee Abrams' out-of-the-box musical philosophy, was able to attract in seven years (about 9 million), to the number of subscribers Sirius, with its safe New York City corporate approach to music, was able to attract in only six (about 8 million, with the gap narrowing every quarter), and said, "Boy, was XM f*cked up, going after the intelligent music listener. This is America, land of mediocrity; there aren't enough intelligent music listeners out there to make this thing work. Let's go with our research and play what the sheeple want to hear, over and over, and let the elitist minority either suffer or go back to their old vinyl collections."
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I miss the Top six on the hour on the 60s channel.

I do too. :-\
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>>I miss the Top six on the hour on the 60s channel.
I do too.>>

I've emailed them about this. Maybe if some more people do it it will help.
It sure couldn't hurt.
 
I also agree that the decades channels have gone downhill since the merger.

On a related note, Is 90s on 9 still airing classic Rick Dees countdowns? I haven't heard it lately on Sunday mornings. Did the time slot change or has it been dropped altogther?
 
wxman76 said:
I also agree that the decades channels have gone downhill since the merger.

On a related note, Is 90s on 9 still airing classic Rick Dees countdowns? I haven't heard it lately on Sunday mornings. Did the time slot change or has it been dropped altogther?
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Dees' agreement with SiriusXM was terminated.
 
The only thing they didn't threaten to do was "kneecap" me but I got the distinct impression that they would have goons at my door in 24 hours or less. They even kept switching me higher up the chain of command at their 3rd world answering center and I finally unleashed on the third one for a good 5 to 10 minutes that since they had royally screwed up XM radio I was no longer interested in their services and I wanted it CANCELLED, CANCELLED, CANCELLED and NOTHING, short of traveling back in time and undoing the merger, they did or said would make me change my mind.
 
YEKIMI said:
The only thing they didn't threaten to do was "kneecap" me but I got the distinct impression that they would have goons at my door in 24 hours or less. They even kept switching me higher up the chain of command at their 3rd world answering center and I finally unleashed on the third one for a good 5 to 10 minutes that since they had royally screwed up XM radio I was no longer interested in their services and I wanted it CANCELLED, CANCELLED, CANCELLED and NOTHING, short of traveling back in time and undoing the merger, they did or said would make me change my mind.
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Did they try to change your mind by offering you free months before you canceled? It seems they've been doing that for everyone else.
 
They offered me everything except Mel's love child. {But they did offer me one month free, I said no, they said two months, I said no, then they said three months, I still said no.}
 
YEKIMI said:
They offered me everything except Mel's love child. {But they did offer me one month free, I said no, they said two months, I said no, then they said three months, I still said no.}
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I get the drift, obviously you wanted no part of them.
 
Hold yer horses everyone who loves the 60's. There's a new PD in town: Lou Simon, who programs Siriusly Sinatra. He's promising big changes for the better.. He actually posted over on XM Fan to introduce himself.
 
Hell, I called to "cancel" just to see if I could get any free months, and I did! Ended up with 3 free months and an opportunity to voice my concerns about the tightening of playlists on the channels I like. I am going to hang on to the service since it's still better than what is offered on traditional radio.
 
qunewsguy said:
Hold yer horses everyone who loves the 60's. There's a new PD in town: Lou Simon, who programs Siriusly Sinatra. He's promising big changes for the better.. He actually posted over on XM Fan to introduce himself.
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How do I get in touch with this guy to ask him to bring back the "Top 6 on the hour?"
 
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