SiriusXM to Launch "The Johnny Carson Channel" in October

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

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SiriusXM has announced the launch of "The Johnny Carson Channel" on October 1. The month-long special programming will air on channel 105 and feature handpicked episodes of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." The Carson channel will feature his can't-miss opening monologues to classic characters such as Carnac the Magnificent. His national platform also helped launch the careers of household names including Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, David Letterman and Jay Leno, to name a few.

"Johnny Carson changed the game and set the standard for late night talk shows. It's so good to hear these amazing shows again!" said DeGeneres of the new SiriusXM Carson channel.

Some episodes of the Johnny Carson edition of the Tonight show will air in October.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I do enjoy the Carson reruns on Antenna TV.
Just wondering how well they will hold up in the car without the visuals.

 

[CTListener]

I do enjoy the Carson reruns on Antenna TV.
Just wondering how well they will hold up in the car without the visuals.

Especially since Johnny's reactions were a huge part of the entertainment value of his interviews. But television-on-radio has been a staple of SiriusXM since the launch of XM and Sirius. Someone must enjoy it.

 

[TheBigA]

They typically don't do these channels unless there's some special event or thing going on that makes it timely. Not sure what that would be.

 

[CTListener]

They typically don't do these channels unless there's some special event or thing going on that makes it timely. Not sure what that would be.

Follow the money. Hopefully word will leak out as to who is footing the bill for this one-month channel takeover. At least it's not going to upset many subscribers, as the channel to be used has been vacant since Entertainment Weekly discontinued its 24/7 programming and became just a 2-hour show on SXM Stars, a catch-all celebrity channel.

 

[anotherguyTN]

They typically don't do these channels unless there's some special event or thing going on that makes it timely. Not sure what that would be.

Oct. 1 is the anniversary of the show, but since it started in 1962 that would be the 57th anniversary. It looks like the 50th or 60th would have been more significant.

 

[Mgomrjsurf]

Maybe Online they could do SirlusXM TV channels with live feeds of Talk Shows and like Johnny Carson Shows.

 

[TheBigA]

Maybe Online they could do SirlusXM TV channels with live feeds of Talk Shows and like Johnny Carson Shows.

They don't seem interested in distributing video on any platform. Their CEO has said that they want to be strictly radio.

 

[anotherguyTN]

They don't seem interested in distributing video on any platform. Their CEO has said that they want to be strictly radio.

At one time I think that they had tried to start a service with video for cars (mainly vans), but it apparently didn't get anywhere. I think I saw it listed as an option for Chrysler minivans, but that was probably at least 10 years ago.

 

[CTListener]

At one time I think that they had tried to start a service with video for cars (mainly vans), but it apparently didn't get anywhere. I think I saw it listed as an option for Chrysler minivans, but that was probably at least 10 years ago.

Backseat Video is what they called it. It was a device that streamed outsourced kiddie entertainment to, as the name indicates, the backseats of larger cars and vans, ostensibly to keep the little stinkers quiet on long trips. It bombed and was quietly discontinued. I believe it was an XM-only project, introduced and killed off before the Sirius buyout. IIRC, the major problem besides a big "who cares" from the consumer was the inability to sign up well-known children's TV cable channels for the service, resulting in no-name programming that would compel nobody to pay extra for it.