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Paul McCartney Channel

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FRR

I'm a little disappointed with the new PM channel. I think they would have been better off if it had been Beatles channel. So much of what they are playing on PM most of us have never heard. Thoughts anyone?
 
Director of Programming Scott Greenstein has doubtlessly stashed his McCartney payola in the bank by now. Why should he care what the channel sounds like?
 
FRR said:
I'm a little disappointed with the new PM channel. I think they would have been better off if it had been Beatles channel. So much of what they are playing on PM most of us have never heard. Thoughts anyone?
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Uh I kind of like being able to hear songs I've never heard before. For the others I have my iPod.
 
FRR said:
I think they would have been better off if it had been Beatles channel.
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Mike Sheridan said:
I...like being able to hear songs I've never heard before.
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I agree with both sentiments.
Fine Tuning, a casualty of the merger, played a bunch of Beatles and post Beatles material that was unreleased of but was great.
 
they said on the channel that the "channel" would end after the holidays....so a few weeks more of Paul...then bye-bye. wish they an all-Beatles and solo Beatles channel. Elvis has one...
 
FRR said:
Anyone heard when the McCartney channel goes bye bye?
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FRR is really asking is:
When are they going to take the shears to the channel?
 
I heard the end portion of the concert, and it wasn't even worth recording (not that you're allowed to, per XM service agreement), music was okay, but vocals were quite tired by then. Also, it would have been nice if XM had taken the bandwidth of 3 different channels, merged them, then put 'pointers' on those 3 channels to ONE WIDE bandwidth stream with some nice HD CD-quality audio (like XM's Fine Tuning used to have).

That would be way too much work for the Sirius engineering assclowns that can't even make the damn Traditional Christmas channel (XM4) in Stereo for a month, or Macca in HD for a day for a highly promoted concert.

Wish Melvin K would take the $20million a year he's saving on Howie Stern and spend half of it on decent engineers and Music programmers that he fired from XM and re-install them. AND, move all programming to DC where the audio quality is better then the double processing dong goings on from NYC to DC to satellite to radio crap.
 
Paul has lost his voice, after all it's been 30 years since "Wings Over America" and he was basically doing the same tunes, which, by the way, sounded very burnt out. I love Paul McCartney, but like Elton John, he's lost his range and can barely hold a tune.

davalvideo said:
Anyone hear the concert at the Apollo on Monday? Missed it and wanted to know how Macca sounded...
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JohnnyElectron said:
...it would have been nice if XM had taken the bandwidth of 3 different channels, merged them, then put 'pointers' on those 3 channels to ONE WIDE bandwidth stream with some nice HD CD-quality audio (like XM's Fine Tuning used to have).
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It effected some earlier radios wierdly. My SkyFi (or maybe it was the SF-2, don't remember) did not benefit, nor could it pause, RW, FF, or store anything on pops or FT.
 
ai4i: "You are correct sir". With the super-wide bandwidth, the SkyFi2 could not buffer more than 2 seconds of data, so you could not pause, skip forwards or backwards on Fine Tuning HD.
What's weird, is that I believe that Symphony Hall is a high-bandwidth channel (56KB??) and you CAN pause, skip +/-, but I think Fine Tuning was like 72KB or so, and much more than the original 48KB that all the music channels used to be :'(
 
sirius1 said:
Paul has lost his voice, after all it's been 30 years since "Wings Over America" and he was basically doing the same tunes, which, by the way, sounded very burnt out. I love Paul McCartney, but like Elton John, he's lost his range and can barely hold a tune.

davalvideo said:
Anyone hear the concert at the Apollo on Monday? Missed it and wanted to know how Macca sounded...
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I Have To Agree ... Paul Sounded Horrible On SNL as Well
 
ai4i said:
When are they going to take the shears to the channel?
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I expected at least a small avalanche of responses :(
 
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