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Question about new Canadian Channels on Sirius

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Gregg

I don't seem to get any of the new Canadian Channels. My rebroadcaster (which I bought at a Circuit City in March) gets Playboy but nothing else above the nationwide weather channel, which I think is 184.

Even though I only bought it six months ago, is it already outdated? Luckily most of the new Canadian Channels are in French. Is it Sirius' plan to have everyone in North America get the same channel line up, hence all the new Canadian channels? I'm also surprised that Sirius carries CBC Radio One (minus most of the music programming) and Radio Three... but doesn't have to carry Radio Two (or the French network's equivilent Espace Musical). You'd think the CBC/SRC would have required their classical music channels to be included since they still don't cover many rural areas.

You'd also think Sirius would be required to carry a talk station such as CFRB, since the CBC Radio One channel is mostly news and news magazine shows, not talk. Sirius has numerous American talk networks, Patriot, Left, Fox, ABC, even OutQ and the 2 NPR stations take phone calls about politics and current events. But there's no similar station for Canadian listeners.

BTW, I'm also disappointed to lose PRI and (I hope only temporarily) The Bridge. If The Who are primarily a Classic Rock group, why not put The Who on one of the multiple Classic Rock channels?




Gregg
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The Canadian Radio & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (similar to the US FCC) requires Canadian content to be carried on Sirius and XM, if they want to sell their services in Canada.
Sirius has the highest Canadian subscriber levels, and as such, the highest level of Canadian content (11 channels).
CBC / Radio-Canada have more channels on Sirius than any other Canadian programmer, as they own the largest chunk of Sirius Canada (40 percent, IIRC).
CBC provides:
Sirius 94 // CBC Radio 3
Sirius 137 // CBC Radio 1
http://www.cbc.ca/sirius/

You should find music shows are simply run a little earlier on Sirius 137; CRTC won't allow them to simulcast a terrestrial station, and it's probably not in CBC's best interest to do so anyway, so 137 runs a different schedule referred to on-air as "CBC Radio One For North America."

Radio-Canada provides the following, primarily in French:
Sirius 93 // Bande à part (live simulcast of Espace Musique at times (two nights a week?))
Sirius 138 // Premiere plus (live or delayed programming from Premiere Chaine, some original shows, some programming from Radio France International)
Sirius 187 // Info plus (News-focused network combines live or delayed audio from TV network Reseau D'Information along with additional programs from Premiere Chaine and RFI)
Sirius 188 // RCI plus (Multilingual & multicultural network carries Radio Canada International programs in many languages, as well as a sustaining service of world music.)
http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/sirius/

CBC Radio 2 and Espace Musique are not carried for these reasons:
*CRTC bans simulcast 24/7 of terrestrial stations onto satellite (Max is 12 hours per day, IIRC)
*CRTC requires 85% Canadian content of musical selections, and R2/EM only carry 15% at times, since they have a special license for carrying "specialty" music
*Radio 2 would duplicate existing classical music channels on Sirius
 
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