The more things change...

[Ai4i]

Yes, sometimes the more they stay the same.
We just noticed the return of these CC terrestrial broadcasters:

-11 KIIS (Kiss) Los Angeles
-12 WHTZ (Z-100) NYC
-13 WLTW (Lite FM) NYC
-57 WSIX Nashville
163 WGCI Chicago

 

[CTListener]

It's been a couple of weeks now. Clear Channel apparently laid off some programming staff (pleasing the investors, no doubt) and stopped programming music channels specifically for XM. Now it's just simulcasts of major-market FMs (mainly New York City) with local ads covered up by pre-programmed songs.

 

[Ai4i]

Yeah, embarrassed that it took me so long to n tice here.

 

[HenryOchs]

Yes, sometimes the more they stay the same.
We just noticed the return of these CC terrestrial broadcasters:

-11 KIIS (Kiss) Los Angeles
-12 WHTZ (Z-100) NYC
-13 WLTW (Lite FM) NYC
-57 WSIX Nashville
163 WGCI Chicago

Maybe XM Radio should add KYLD(WiLD 94.9), a CHR/Rhythmic radio station from San Francisco, featuring JV's Wild Wake Up Morning Show, Dreena Gonzalez, Chino, and Nessa's night show!

 

[wprt949]

why did they add WCGI chicago ?

 

[Ai4i]

for people in the central timezone who need to know the time.

 

[Ai4i]

Don't know if this is just my radio, but Lite 106.7 (XM channel 13) seems to sound brighter and crisper than the regular XM channels.
Anyone know if CC is alloting more bandwidth to these music channels than XM does to their music channels?
CC's Bollywood and Beyond also sounded noticeably better than ATN Asian Radio.

 

[dxer720]

I think the CC channels are at a higher bitrate than XM's own music channels.

I did notice that Chicago's WGCI on 162 (Formerly "Bollywood & Beyond") is in mono.

Aren't 164 (Sixx Sense) & 166 (America's Talk) also CC programmed?

 

[Mainedude2007]

Aren't 164 (Sixx Sense) & 166 (America's Talk) also CC programmed?

I believe CC programs 2 talk channels, I doubt those would change (to Fm simulcasts) but I bet 164 changes to a simulcast of one of CC's Rock stations, probably Q104 out of NYC

 

[HenryOchs]

Aren't 164 (Sixx Sense) & 166 (America's Talk) also CC programmed?

I believe CC programs 2 talk channels, I doubt those would change (to Fm simulcasts) but I bet 164 changes to a simulcast of one of CC's Rock stations, probably Q104 out of NYC

I would love to see XM Radio add KYLD(WiLD 94.9), a CHR/Rhythmic radio station from San Francisco and 99.7 WRFX, a Classic Rock station based in Charolotte, NC!

 

[livingfruitvirus]

Aren't 164 (Sixx Sense) & 166 (America's Talk) also CC programmed?

I believe CC programs 2 talk channels, I doubt those would change (to Fm simulcasts) but I bet 164 changes to a simulcast of one of CC's Rock stations, probably Q104 out of NYC

CC programs Extreme Talk (165), America's Talk (166), ReachMD (167), XM Talk/Talk Radio (168), and Fox Sports Radio (169).

 

[Ai4i]

How about if they were to combine those stations and just add one channel with nothing but all screaming commercials. How many of terrestrial radio's fans would be attracted to that?

 

[CTListener]

How about if they were to combine those stations and just add one channel with nothing but all screaming commercials. How many of terrestrial radio's fans would be attracted to that?

Very few. You have to have some content. So fold all Clear Channel talk stations into one, use a format of five minutes of commercials, one minute of someone ranting that Obama is a Muslim foreigner who will turn our country communist if he isn't stopped in 2012, five minutes of commercials, one minute of someone raving that Obama wants to kill your grandparents and open the borders to people who don't look like us and want to take our jobs, five minutes of commercials, one minute of someone raving that the government is out to kill its citizens, and on and on and on. Blockbuster ratings guaranteed.

 

[RadioStarOne]

You just described Coast to Coast AM.

 

[CTListener]

You just described Coast to Coast AM.

Yeah, or a Ron Paul stump speech. ;D