Fox hosts to get own channel on xm - Jan 2006

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http://billboardradiomonitor.com/ra...article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001307856

the article explains the details.

Best highlight (IMHO) - Colmes to move off channel 167 (Air America Radio)

Some samples of the article follow:

It’s going to be called “Fox News Talk” and it launches on XM Satellite Radio as a separate channel in January 2006. Fox News Radio senior VP Kevin Magee described the move in a prepared statement as “another opportunity to expand the Fox News brand.”

The new channel will offer news, analysis and commentary from Fox News personalities Bill O'Reilly, Tony Snow, John Gibson, and Alan Colmes, among many others. The channel will provide another outlet for primetime Fox News Channel programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

 

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> It’s going to be called “Fox News Talk” and it launches on
> XM Satellite Radio as a separate channel in January 2006.
> Fox News Radio senior VP Kevin Magee described the move in a
> prepared statement as “another opportunity to expand the Fox
> News brand.”

It's like the 2nd program of Soviet Radio!

> The new channel will offer news, analysis and commentary
> from Fox News personalities Bill O'Reilly, Tony Snow, John
> Gibson, and Alan Colmes, among many others. The channel will
> provide another outlet for primetime Fox News Channel
> programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes
> and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Some of these are already on the Ask! channel. The Tony Snowjob airs in the mornings on Ask! and is generally dreadful radio. I certainly hope they are not going to simulcast the evening propaganda block on this new channel -and- the TV audio channel of Fox News Channel. That would be a total waste of bandwidth.

I'm glad Colmes will be off the AAR channel. He blocks Malloy. Those two are like night and day.