I believe that on the streaming version, a few extra songs are added each hour, in place of commercials. There still are some ads, but less than the OTA version.
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March 2022 PPM and an AM surprise
- Thread starter Theater of My Mind
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I believe that on the streaming version, a few extra songs are added each hour, in place of commercials. There still are some ads, but less than the OTA version.
I remember when WSIX Nashville was on XM for awhile and that's exactly how the commercial breaks were dealt with. It was lazy and obvious programming, as the same half dozen songs were used for months on end, just because they happened to be the right length.
Well Z100 & KISS are both leaving Siriusxm.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/226874/kiis-fm-to-depart-siriusxm/
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/226874/kiis-fm-to-depart-siriusxm/
It's the end of an era. I remember, not so fondy, the several music stations that Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) had when they were on XM. That means that, as of June 1, commercials will be gone for good on SiriusXM's music lineup. Meanwhile, Z100 and KIIS-FM can continue to be heard on the iHeart platform, which iHeartMedia is promoting.
I remember the very early days in which commercials were not only on the Clear Channel channels, but on '50s on 5 and Soul Street (now Soul Town) as well. When Sirius went completely commercial-free on its music channels, XM had to cut part of its ad revenue stream off, but the quid pro quo that gave Clear Channel squatter's rights to a big chunk of bandwidth continued to be an irritant to subscribers for years and years, even after the takeover by Sirius that formed the current corporation.
Yes, I also remember that some of XM's own channels (e.g., 80s on 8, BPM, Cinemagic) had commercials. When XM finally got rid of commercials on all of its own music channels, the people in the now-defunct XMFan.com discussion forums were celebrating the occasion, with some of us inserting dancing banana emoticons into our posts.
There were also commercials on the channels provided by several other investment partners at XM. For example, HBC (now Univision) had 5 channels for Spanish language programming.
And on the two provided by WorldSpace (World Zone and Ngoma) for world and African music, respectively. It's a shame that XM has never expanded its horizons of international music beyond the Americas since, except for some K-Pop on Korea Today, which is a minority-interest channel SXM must carry under the agreement that allowed its monopoly on satellite radio to go forward.
Don't forget U-Pop, the WorldSpace channel that played popular music from around the world. U-Pop played music from artists (such as Girls Aloud) who were popular in other countries but not here. It also played foreign-language hits such as "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone, a Moldovan EDM group. "Dragostea Din Tei," which is sung in Romanian and also known as "Ma-i-a Hi," is such a catchy song that it inspired parody videos such as this one.
& theyre officially gone.
On the + side they did the usual move for the summer by putting yacht rock also on channel 14 for those of us with radios that cant get 311.
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