TOP 20 ON 20 IS GONE ON XM CHANNEL 20. (REPLACED BY SIRIUS/XM HITS 1)

[Human Numan]

As of 12:00 AM tonight XM 20 on 20 was replaced with SIRIUS/XM Hits 1.

Now I am going to have to cancel my SIRIUS subscription now because I already have XM and can now get SIRIUS HITS 1 on my XM radios, on XM channel 20 which was formerly XM Top 20 on 20.

I had 1 SIRIUS subscription in my house just to hear HITS 1 because HITS 1 was not available on XM.

I already changed my subscription plan with Sirius, to a cheaper plan, now I got to cancel my whole SIRIUS subscription since I can get all the same music channels on XM.

Hopefully SIRIUS will refund my money, and ill tell them this is the reason for me cancelling my SIRIUS subscription.

 

[wprt949]

i noticed this last night

20 on 20 was the highest rated channel on xm

they took everything xm had and trashed it

 

[JoeMorris]

Funny. I'm listening to it right now, and they're still called 20 On 20.

 

[RadioStarOne]

Yep! It's still there on my radio too!

 

[MoldaMania182]

It's sad. 20 on 20 was definitely better than Hits1 (except for maybe the name) If you check the Sirius board I called this a little over a month ago.

It's not over yet though. According to the site, it appears 12p-9p Eastern is still 20on20. Everything else is Hits1. I'm sure that will go away too in short order.

 

[CTListener]

How do you compare channels devoted to churning out whatever synthetic, simple-minded, grunted and shrieked pseudo-music that the major labels have pre-determined will be hits over and over and over? Swill is swill, and the fact that XM had this "listener voting" gimmick (that was about as credible as an Iranian election -- really, who believes that XM was actually tabulating votes 24/7?) supposedly determining whether Black Eyed Peas would be played before or after Flo Rida is completely irrelevant.

Call the channel what you will, it's just FM without the commercials and is the absolute lowest denominator of the company's musical programming.

 

[jbazanshop]

How do you compare channels devoted to churning out whatever synthetic, simple-minded, grunted and shrieked pseudo-music that the major labels have pre-determined will be hits over and over and over? Swill is swill, and the fact that XM had this "listener voting" gimmick (that was about as credible as an Iranian election -- really, who believes that XM was actually tabulating votes 24/7?) supposedly determining whether Black Eyed Peas would be played before or after Flo Rida is completely irrelevant.

Call the channel what you will, it's just FM without the commercials and is the absolute lowest denominator of the company's musical programming.

.

And was the highest rated channel(!?!)...and some of us wonder why the playlists at many of the channels were gutted. I wonder how often everyday Mel says, "Sucker born every minute."

 

[radioman148]

How do you compare channels devoted to churning out whatever synthetic, simple-minded, grunted and shrieked pseudo-music that the major labels have pre-determined will be hits over and over and over? Swill is swill, and the fact that XM had this "listener voting" gimmick (that was about as credible as an Iranian election -- really, who believes that XM was actually tabulating votes 24/7?) supposedly determining whether Black Eyed Peas would be played before or after Flo Rida is completely irrelevant.

Call the channel what you will, it's just FM without the commercials and is the absolute lowest denominator of the company's musical programming.

.

And was the highest rated channel(!?!)...and some of us wonder why the playlists at many of the channels were gutted. I wonder how often everyday Mel says, "Sucker born every minute."

If they keep losing subscribers Mel may not keep saying that.

 

[CTListener]

How do you compare channels devoted to churning out whatever synthetic, simple-minded, grunted and shrieked pseudo-music that the major labels have pre-determined will be hits over and over and over? Swill is swill, and the fact that XM had this "listener voting" gimmick (that was about as credible as an Iranian election -- really, who believes that XM was actually tabulating votes 24/7?) supposedly determining whether Black Eyed Peas would be played before or after Flo Rida is completely irrelevant.

Call the channel what you will, it's just FM without the commercials and is the absolute lowest denominator of the company's musical programming.

.

And was the highest rated channel(!?!)...and some of us wonder why the playlists at many of the channels were gutted. I wonder how often everyday Mel says, "Sucker born every minute."

If they keep losing subscribers Mel may not keep saying that.

Subscriber loss is due to auto industry collapse, consumer uncertainty about their jobs, and the increasing preference especially among younger listeners for the "only songs I know and love" familiarity of the iPod over the randomness of radio. Playlist depth is a non-starter; as has been mentioned, the top-rated channels on XM and Sirius (much like top-rated FM stations) play familiar, radio-friendly hits, and not a whole lot of them.

 

[Starbucks]

That's not exactly what I hear. especially from the staff themselves. Try 40000 plus dropped by subscribers, mentioned by airstaff, and calling center employees. When I called and asked the questions...I personally got the answers.

 

[marcus250]

20 on 20 played absolutely no recurrents verses sirius hits 1 which plays entirely too many recurrents for my liking accept on weekends with the top 45 and hit bound so please get your facts straight before you post this garbage!

How do you compare channels devoted to churning out whatever synthetic, simple-minded, grunted and shrieked pseudo-music that the major labels have pre-determined will be hits over and over and over? Swill is swill, and the fact that XM had this "listener voting" gimmick (that was about as credible as an Iranian election -- really, who believes that XM was actually tabulating votes 24/7?) supposedly determining whether Black Eyed Peas would be played before or after Flo Rida is completely irrelevant.

Call the channel what you will, it's just FM without the commercials and is the absolute lowest denominator of the company's musical programming.