KIIS-FM TO DEPART SIRIUSXM

[RadioKid]

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For the first time in over 20 years, an iHeartMedia music station will not be heard on the XM service.

End of an era or just something that should have happened a long time ago? I never understood why you'd pay for satellite radio and then listen to a channel with commercials on it.

 

[TheBigA]

End of an era or just something that should have happened a long time ago? I never understood why you'd pay for satellite radio and then listen to a channel with commercials on it.

Keep in mind there are lots of non-music channels on Sirius that also have commercials.

 

[Theater of My Mind]

It was a holdover from the business deal Clear Channel cut with XM when they were an investor at the very beginning. There was no iHeartRadio app, smartphones or usable mobile streaming at the time so it made more sense for those terrestrial stations to be on satellite then than it does now.

The main loss for customers is that in spite of the commercials, Z100 and KIIS were better sounding CHR stations than SiriusXM's own Hits 1. Some would say they're the best CHR stations with the best talent in the nation. Hits 1 is mostly hosted by Spyder Harrison VT'ed around the clock, and in my opinion he has a style probably better suited for Classic Hits than CHR.

 

[davideduardo]

It was a holdover from the business deal Clear Channel cut with XM when they were an investor at the very beginning. There was no iHeartRadio app, smartphones or usable mobile streaming at the time so it made more sense for those terrestrial stations to be on satellite then than it does now.

A number of the radio companies that invested in XM got channels. Some, like HBC, created their own channels with 50% of the ad time going to the broadcaster. When XM decided to make those channels commercial free, the rest of us left and only Clear stayed with some larger deal.

 

[RadioKid]

Keep in mind there are lots of non-music channels on Sirius that also have commercials.

You are correct and I should have been clearer that I meant music channels. Of course their talk programming like Urban View or Progress has ad breaks. I was just thinking the difference between Hits 1 and KIIS when I wrote my opening post.

 

[Will_H_69_9]

yeah, KIIS FM from LA will be gone for the Satellite Radio broadcasting, but it makes sense, iHeartRadio rendered the channel unneeded with the fact you can just listen to the same station for free on iHeartRadio, pretty much a end of a era, but i'm sure many who listen to this station on SiriusXM will now have no choice but to download the iHeartRadio app or go to the iHeartRadio website to listen to the station (unless they are in LA, then they could tune in via 102.7 FM).

 

[Mikey Radio]

yeah, KIIS FM from LA will be gone for the Satellite Radio broadcasting, but it makes sense, iHeartRadio rendered the channel unneeded with the fact you can just listen to the same station for free on iHeartRadio, pretty much a end of a era, but i'm sure many who listen to this station on SiriusXM will now have no choice but to download the iHeartRadio app or go to the iHeartRadio website to listen to the station (unless they are in LA, then they could tune in via 102.7 FM).

Yep, unless someone has limited data and therefore cannot listen to KIIS FM in their car using the app or the web as much as they would via Sirius, no one here really loses. Those loyal to KIIS FM can still listen anywhere they have an internet connection or cell data. Sirius can free up that channel to offer different programming and in the end, KIIS loses few of any listeners. iHM gets some more people using their app.

 

[Kelly A]

Also frees up some needed transponder bandwidth.

 

[TheBigA]

Also frees up some needed transponder bandwidth.

Not exactly. Sirius is replacing KIIS with one of it's in-house channels.

 

[Kelly A]

That's what I mean. They can put something else in those bits.

 

[Ai4i]

In-house channels are always better.
No one gets sat rad for commercials and content-edited music.