Sunny, KISS, MIX, and Nashville will have commercials.

[OldAkronite]

> Quite possibly never. I haven't seen any evidence that
> terrestrial stations will resume broadcasting on XM
> channels.

Well, except that little thing about Clear Channel's WLW/700 Cincinnati already broadcasting on XM 173.



I tend to agree with you on the music channels, though. I don't expect "KISS" to revert to KIIS/Los Angeles, etc.

> That's apparently some of why WSM created its own
> channel on Sirius instead of the simulcast of 650 that was
> previously there.

I just tuned there. It appears they call it "WSM Entertainment" now, though the display still shows the name of the station's on-air personality.

After a brief listen, it sounds like WSM personalities are voicetracking shifts on Sirius, and they're using the "WSM/111" identifier.

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[passtheword]

> There's probably some sort of legal/contractual reason for
> it, but...Since most of us who listen to XM's music channels
> listen for the variety and the fact there are no
> commercials, why not just drop the CC-run channels, change
> their names, and put your own programming staff in place to
> run them. Nashville would be easy; have the guy who runs
> America and Highway 16 run that...And I'm sure Kiss, Mix,
> and Sunny could continue their current musical formats even
> with a name-change...Cut Clear Channel out of the picture,
> and run without commercials.


You're probably right. Why would xm keep those channels on there unless they had to because they were contractually obligated to do so? It's almost a sure bet once the contract is over and done with, xm will be saying "adios" to clear channel, and hopefully start their own channels to replace Kiss, Mix, and Sunny.






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[MsGail61]

> in the beginning some stations had commercials. they were so
> short noone even noticed they existed!! 2 :30 second spots
> per hour..wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy less than the horrible fm band!!
> i would still pay for it if thats all it was!! but i dont
> listen to those four stations anyway!!
>
>
>

Yeah, if they have the same commercials they have on news/talk channels, like Lazlo and his underground hard drive, it would be okay. At least it wouldn't be a shrieking local car dealership ad.

 

[Kent]

> > Quite possibly never. I haven't seen any evidence that
> > terrestrial stations will resume broadcasting on XM
> > channels.
>
> Well, except that little thing about Clear Channel's WLW/700
> Cincinnati already broadcasting on XM 173.

Well, yes. That's why I used the term "resume." I was referring to the ones that were on XM but are no longer. I don't believe WLW ever was on XM before arriving last week. Yes, I probably should have been a little clearer on that.

> I tend to agree with you on the music channels, though. I
> don't expect "KISS" to revert to KIIS/Los Angeles, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen, but I don't expect that it will at this point in time either. Nothing I've seen thus far indicates it will.

> I just tuned there. It appears they call it "WSM
> Entertainment" now, though the display still shows the name
> of the station's on-air personality.

Correct. At least in afternoons and evenings, the previous daypart's jock on WSM 650 voicetracks the show on WSM 111.

> After a brief listen, it sounds like WSM personalities are
> voicetracking shifts on Sirius, and they're using the
> "WSM/111" identifier.

Yes. It sounds exactly like WSM does as a terrestrial station. It's just not the exact station.

 

[goldenman]

Guess xm regrets letting cc invest!
but on the bright side maybe more people will go to Sirius!

> > From FMQB:
> >
> > Over the next few months, as ads launch on those four
> Clear
> > Channel-controlled channels, XM will add four new
> > commercial-free music channels, in an attempt to offset
> the
> > change and ensure that subscribers will see no reduction
> in
> > the total number of commercial-free music channels. “We
> are
> > firmly committed to maintaining commercial-free all the
> > music channels XM itself creates,” Brown added.
> >
>
> >
>
> Any Chance one of these would be a Top 40/ CHR channel done
> right? I mean with personality. Any word on what the
> channels will be?
>

 

[Tony_Ramirez]

What about Bandwith.

Unless they found a way to do better compression methods how are they going to keep the Clear Channel wastes and add 4 new music channels after just adding 2.

I hope they move the Clear Channel stations in their own catagory in the high 100's or 200's so they are not in with the commercial free music channels.

 

[PaulO]

> If this becomes really bad they could always pay Clear
> Channel off and program there own Happy or Cheery or
> whatever themselves.
>
> ---------------------
> > So Clear Channel will poison Sunny 24 with commercials and
>
> > XM will add 4 stations (probably all rock or urban)
> > supposedly to make up for the four lost to CC. Can bet
> that
> > none of those 4 will replace the "loss" of Sunny 24's
> > unblemished current format. I can hear it now, get in a
> > good mellow mood from Sunny only to have some raucous ad
> > blaring rap or rock to sell some useless product. I
> bought
> > XM for Sunny 24 alone, so this means a lot to me. If I
> > wanted rock and commercials, I'd stick to FM -- plenty of
> it
> > there. Clear Channel was a major player in the ruining of
>
> > FM, now they are trying to F* satellite as well.
> >
> > I wish Directv hadnt switched from MusicChoice, as MC had
> a
> > nice easy listening channel. I guess I'll have to make
> CDs
> > off DMX (ku band FSS, service, 39" sat dish) for listening
>
> > to anything E-Z in the truck. Thank God for DMX and for
> the
> > cable companies that carry MusicChoice.
> >
> > On the bright side, maybe God allows Clear Channel to
> exist
> > to prove to us there is a Hell and a Satan; as something
> as
> > evil as CC could not have been conjured up anyplace other
> > than Hell.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Thanks clear channel..
> > http://www.orb>
> >
> itcast.com/archives/xm-100-commercialfree-music-no-more.html
>
> >
> > >
> > http://ww>
> >
> w.orbitcast.com/archives/more-info-on-xm-music-channels.html
>
> >
> > >
> >
>
Several of the music channels including Sunny have had comercials in the past. I think it was only like 2 minutes per hour if memory serves.

 

[ricoontheradio]

> Thanks clear channel..

I don't know - On this one I have to give Clear Channel credit that they thought of this when they signed the agreement back in the late 90's. Smart business move.

I'd say personally about 50% of my listening to XM is between Sunny, Kiss, and Mix - with the Alternative and Urban channels being the other 50%... I guess I'll have to give Sirius a shot if I don't want to hear commercials.

But, in my opinion, Clear Channel deserves credit. They ARE protecting their share holders, and are going to get a nice ROI when it comes to XM.