Sirius XM launches 20 new channels

[livingfruitvirus]

Sirius XM is now broadcasting its upcoming 2.0 channels via its internet service.

MUSIC
Ch. 300 Party Mega Mix
Ch. 310 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Radio
Ch. 313 RockBar
Ch. 316 Sirius XM Comes Alive!
Ch. 319 Classic College Radio
Ch. 350 Red White and Booze
Ch. 360 Yoga

SPORTS
Ch. 370 SportsCenter

COMEDY
Ch. 400 Carlin's Corner
Ch. 403 Dirty Dog
Ch. 406 UCB Radio

LATIN/WORLD
Ch. 500 Viva^
Ch. 503 La Mezcia
Ch. 506 Flow Nacion
Ch. 510 Aguila*
Ch. 520 Latidos
Ch. 523 Caricia*
Ch. 530 Luna*
Ch. 533 Rumbon$
Ch. 540 La Kueva
Ch. 560 RadioFormula Mexico
Ch. 569 Playboy Radio en Espanol

^ = Originally online only channel
* = Former XM channel resurrected
$ = Former Sirius channel resurrected

 

[kenneykop]

Bring back ON THE ROCKS!!!!

 

[Bill_W]

I guess that's why my iPhone app logged me out Sunday morning and I could not get back into the app until around noon. I wanted to listen getting ready for church in the morning.

 

[paradioguy]

They have a receiver called "The Edge" now available for $139.00 to recieve the new channels.

http://shop.siriusxm.com/xm/ctl1060...ge_dock__play_radio__powerconnect_vehicle_kit

 

[Casey]

Why do they have to offer another crap country station? They got rid of X Country, which was one of the few good stations. The only remaining country stations worth while is Prime Country. Willie's Roadhouse and Outlaw Country are jokes, and this one looks like yet another.

 

[DaveBayArea]

Why do they have to offer another crap country station? They got rid of X Country, which was one of the few good stations. The only remaining country stations worth while is Prime Country. Willie's Roadhouse and Outlaw Country are jokes, and this one looks like yet another.

Yeah, I remember those days. I used to listen to X-country for hours just waiting to hear what they were going to play next. That and the early Bluegrass Junction channel (with Felton Pruitt) were truly the best. Wow. Was it really 5 years ago? Great radio never lasts, it seems. I dropped my XM shortly after the merger, when I found the only station I was listening to was Jam On, and not really enjoying it all that much.

Anything new and interesting on there today, or is it still just "stuff you've heard before"?

Dave B.

 

[Ai4i]

None of them really interest me, but...
How do the channels GET to the radio, WiFi hotspots, are they on the sats, they can't be only on the terrestrial repeaters because the NAB nixed that? Are they chewing up more bandwidth from all the other channels?

 

[livingfruitvirus]

The channels are broadcast using a different modulation technique and a better version of the AAC codec XM uses. Only the new receivers are capable of picking them up.

 

[Ai4i]

I wonder if the new channels on the Edge receiver will have normal channel numbers as opposed to being up in the several hundreds, and also how Yoga differs from Spa.

 

[storrs19]

I dropped Sirius-XM when they (well really ClearChannel) let Rollye James go on April 1st. It is a crock that we can't have her show on one of the seemingly endless channels we have now. In this day and age we really need more people like Rollye James and less of Pig Limbaugh, Regurgitate Hannity, and Scream Levin. Of course they are all ClearChannel cash cows and are going nowhere.

 

[Ai4i]

I knew Rollye when we both studied at Miami Beach High School in the 1960's and have been corresponding with her ever since she said something to make me realize it was her.
Over the last few years she has changed my world view: "the demopublicans and republicrats".

 

[storrs19]

I knew Rollye when we both studied at Miami Beach High School in the 1960's and have been corresponding with her ever since she said something to make me realize it was her.
Over the last few years she has changed my world view: "the demopublicans and republicrats".

I couldn't have said it better. That last line sums up all the idiots in office, lol.

 

[JohnnyElectron]

No real new channels; the Spanish channels were on XM before they were bought-out by Sirius.
No "MOR music channel".
No 'deep oldies decades channel' - an "IT" channel that would run 24/7.

No reason to want to give any more money to Melvin.

 

[davideduardo]

No real new channels; the Spanish channels were on XM before they were bought-out by Sirius.

No, the majority of the original HBC / XM Spanish language channels had gone away years before the merger. And there were only 5 music channels in Spanish at launch... AC, rock, tropical, regional and tejano.

 

[CTListener]

No real new channels; the Spanish channels were on XM before they were bought-out by Sirius.

No, the majority of the original HBC / XM Spanish language channels had gone away years before the merger. And there were only 5 music channels in Spanish at launch... AC, rock, tropical, regional and tejano.

I believe the number was three at the time of the takeover. The AC and regional Mexican channels were dropped, leaving only the tropical. I guess the New York Anglos in charge of Sirius figured that was the only type of music people of Latino heritage like, since that's all they could hear on New York FM on their commute from Short Hills or Scarsdale or the Hamptons.

 

[davideduardo]

I believe the number was three at the time of the takeover. The AC and regional Mexican channels were dropped, leaving only the tropical. I guess the New York Anglos in charge of Sirius figured that was the only type of music people of Latino heritage like, since that's all they could hear on New York FM on their commute from Short Hills or Scarsdale or the Hamptons.

That was always my assumption, too. I was the programming manager for the 5 PDs for the 5 HBC channels; we all thought that the folks in NY didn't understand what would drive subscribers...

It's sort of like the then-GM of KIIS in LA, who, when seeing KLVE at #1 in '95, said, "I don't see that many Hispanics in LA!" I was quoted, in response, in the LA times, saying "if your idea of LA is your drive from Burbank to Bel Aire, you probably won't see many."