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FCC grants approval for Sirius/XM to broadcast to Hawaii/Alaska via terrestrial

So how does it work for subscribers that drive across the border, Mexico or Canada? Does the signal go out once you enter another country? I've never understood how this worked.
 
Canada should have some satellite service in SW Ontario and all the Southern portions of their Provinces that border the USA. They need repeaters the farther North you go, but yes, XM and Sirius both had separate companies operating in Canada (until recently) and citizens in Canada had a lesser selection of channels, if I'm not mistaken.
Don't know how far down the birds go into Mexico or not.
 
The Ice Road Truckers will be able to listen to Sirius-XM in their trucks! Will be kind of cool that Sirius-XM will be half way across the Pacific Ocean for HI too.
 
JohnnyElectron said:
Canada should have some satellite service in SW Ontario and all the Southern portions of their Provinces that border the USA. They need repeaters the farther North you go, but yes, XM and Sirius both had separate companies operating in Canada (until recently) and citizins in Canada had a lesser selection of channels, if I'm not mistaken.
Don't know how far down the birds go into Mexico or not.
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The CRTC has not approved the merger yet; if I recall, the CRTC will hold hearings on the merger in March of this year; don't know if the merger will be rubberstamped as it was south of the (Canadian) border or not.

I've read on other forum that people venturing into Mexico have received an XM signal as much as 150 miles south of the US/Mexican border.

XM Canada advertises 130 stations, missing are the several ClearChannel leased stations (channel 24, 161 and a few others,also absent are the US traffic and weather channels) , as well as Public Radio channel 134 and Talk Channel 165; interesting enough channels 130 (POTIS) and C-Span (channel 132) are in the XM Canada channel line-up.

drt
 
Nick said:
And the XM channels they had to include to fulfill CanCon are also included in the US lineup.
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Yes, the compromise agreement to get licensed by the the CRTC with way less than the normal 30% CanCon requirement includes exposing Canadian artists to the vast US market, about nine times the size of Canada.
 
Now we know why they were in a hurry to launch XM-5 - so they could provide service to Alaska and to Hawaii with XM-5 and a repositioning of the formerly spare XM-1 and XM-2 which will now see service again = at least for 180 days!
 
Finally, the last two states of the Union get treated fairly!! Yes, they are part of the 50 state union!! It only took 10 years for someone to figure someone was getting shafted and mistreated. Add 2 million more possible listeners to the listening audience. Alaskans in remote areas will now have a choice to hear quality programming. Sirisxm hasn't killed terrestrial radio in the lower 48 and it wont in Alaska or Hawaii either. It simply offers Americans in those states more choices, and that isn't a crime! Anchorage might need more than one repeater tho to give quality coverage, the same with Honolulu.
 
Re: FCC grants approval for Sirius/XM to broadcast to Hawaii/Alaska via terrestr

AZ,
You are in Alaska. Do you need to use a charge card with a lower 48 billing address as the Canadians used to, or have AK and HI cards been accepted?
 
Well, since I live in Hawaii, I won't have no problem. I have a '09 Ford Expedition EL XLT that is equipped with Sirius. And on top of that, most of the places in the City & County of Honolulu are selling Sirius XM products and all of the auto dealers in Honolulu are selling vehicles with Sirius XM-equipped radios.
 
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only1moore said:
Well, since I live in Hawaii, I won't have no problem
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We hope you WILL have NO problem!
 
They take credit cards from Alaska, they have taken mine for almost 10 years. SE Alaska has had quality Sirius and XM reception since the beginning, but now the 500,000 people of the Anchorage and Fairbanks areas can get some decent coverage. :)
 
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Saul Levine of Mt. Wilson Broadcasters does his best work when he looks after his own business. An early critic of Satrad, he allows himself to be sidetracked by concerns which are not his.
 
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