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Maybe I'm just cranky, but I find the "new" Starbucks/XM Cafe hybrid channel to be extremely dull and uninspired. The regular XM Cafe wasn't a home run, but it at least had some creativity. Is there another XM Channel I'm missing that offers interesting AAA programming?
 
neutralparty said:
Maybe I'm just cranky, but I find the "new" Starbucks/XM Cafe hybrid channel to be extremely dull and uninspired. The regular XM Cafe wasn't a home run, but it at least had some creativity. Is there another XM Channel I'm missing that offers interesting AAA programming?

Why are they still simocasting the channel on 75? Turn off channel 75 and give back some band width.
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May be a bit mellow for your taste and not the answer you're looking for, but I think the "The Loft" (50) plays good sets and could easily fit into the AAA category though they label it as "Acoustic Rock".
 
This has been discussed here before, but not for while and nothing has changed.

XM has no AAA channel.

The cafe and loft are too similar and do not mix in enough rock. They both seem to be aimed specifically at women - in my mind, women at the Starbucks or Barnes and Noble Cafe reading Wurhering Heights - but that's just me.

There is simply nothing like the AAAs of FM that I am familiar with including KSCA and Channel 103.1 here in LA (and KMPC-FM/KEDG-FM, the pioneer of what would become the format), KFOG in SF and the station in Boston, I believe called the River (been awhile since I listened to that one, so I may have the name wrong).
 
CF you're right, although I enjoyed Hear Music/Starbucks it wasn't really AAA like the stations you mentioned. XM should just hire the part-time services of someone who's actually programming an OTA AAA station somewhere to give them a clue. And now its programming is even less interesting now that it's combined with Cafe.

Anyone know why Starbucks and Cafe were mushed together? Does XM have great plans for the former Hear Music frequency?
 
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