What about Spanish language music channel?

[fredcantu]

When I first joined Sirius, they had spanish pop, regional Mexican, Tejano, etc. Now they're down to just one stream and its heavy with Salsa which I guess must be an east coast thing. I can't believe Sirius forces me to listen to terrestrial radio for my Latino fix.

 

[CTListener]

The regional Mexican channel was a casualty of the merger. Sirius is extremely New York-centric, and the programmers there don't think anything but Puerto Rican/Dominican-influenced Spanish music matters.

 

[magicjellybeans]

You have got to be kidding ,theres like 9 regular radio stations with a broad selection of this genre no matter where you live.
Try your regular radio.Sirius had them and nobody wanted them so they are gone.

 

[Neel]

I think in LA there are more Spanish stations than English. That's the reason I had to switch to satellite!

 

[Gregg]

Guys, you're forgetting that many people have Classic Rock, Top 40 and Adult Contemporary stations to listen to in their communities, and yet pay for a Sirius/XM subscription. The advantage with Sirius is that there are no commercials and in morning drive, no news, weather, traffic or excessive DJ chatter on the music channels.

Fred is right that it is odd with the growth of the Hispanic audience that there aren't more Latino channels. There are still plenty of places in the U.S. where Latino media is very limited. Boston, Philadelphia and Detroit are all big cities with NO Hispanic stations on the FM dial. Funny that there are more French language choices than Spanish language... but then, Sirius/XM had to do that to gain access to Canada, even though there are only six million French-speakers in all of Canada and virtually none in the U.S. I'd guess the Spanish speaking population in the U.S. is ten times that.



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[JohnnyElectron]

XM used to have an excellent Spanish Traditional Tex-Mex Music station called Aguilla (XM92?) - but it got cut. I thought for sure when they opened-up the 4%+4% bandwidth rule for FREE stations on XM+Sirius radios (about 8 channels (4 each) leased by others independant of XM/Sirius) that there would be the return of Auguilla from some minority concern. Why hasn't somebody jumped on the bandwagon for these yet, is beyond me. The FCC made this a condition of the merger, yet, they've had 4 extensions, and still, no takers?

 

[CTListener]

XM used to have an excellent Spanish Traditional Tex-Mex Music station called Aguilla (XM92?) - but it got cut. I thought for sure when they opened-up the 4%+4% bandwidth rule for FREE stations on XM+Sirius radios (about 8 channels (4 each) leased by others independant of XM/Sirius) that there would be the return of Auguilla from some minority concern. Why hasn't somebody jumped on the bandwagon for these yet, is beyond me. The FCC made this a condition of the merger, yet, they've had 4 extensions, and still, no takers?

I'm guessing that qualified entities are having a hard time coming up with the money for the lease. Unless I'm mistaken, the lessees won't be able to sell advertising on their Sirius XM channels. Even if they would be able to, how much advertising do you think they could scrape up in today's depressed radio advertising market? I'm beginning to think that bandwidth may never be filled and the FCC will be powerless to do anything about it unless it lowers its criteria and opens the bandwidth to religious charlatans with flocks of gullible donors ready to write big checks.