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Will some one please turn channel 173 off?

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PaulO

Now that WLW is no longer a part of XM (or so they say) why are they keeping 173 on to simocast 165 and waste a tun of band
 
Don't worry about it. It doesn't take THAT much bandwidth and by April they will have filled that channel with something else.
 
Any guess what Clear Channel will do with their bandwidth from National Lampoon Comedy and WLW that are both now unused?
A new music channel perhaps? When?
 
JohnnyElectron said:
Any guess what Clear Channel will do with their bandwidth from National Lampoon Comedy and WLW that are both now unused?
A new music channel perhaps? When?
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Maybe XM Radio should bring back Country music station WSIX in Nashville and also add KYLD(WiLD 94.9), a CHR/Rhythmic station based in San Francisco!

Any thoughts?
 
Henry Ochs said:
JohnnyElectron said:
Any guess what Clear Channel will do with their bandwidth from National Lampoon Comedy and WLW that are both now unused?
A new music channel perhaps? When?
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Maybe XM Radio should bring back Country music station WSIX in Nashville and also add KYLD(WiLD 94.9), a CHR/Rhythmic station based in San Francisco!

Any thoughts?
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It's not up to Sirius XM, it's Cheap Channel's space and they'll be the ones making that decision. And for whatever reason, they seem to have moved away from just carrying modified feeds of 'local' radio stations.

I'm wondering if they're gonna try something urban — the rest of Clear Channel's XM lineup is decidedly, um, white-bread.
 
Yeah, I have to agree the CC on XM family doesn't include a lot of diversity. Even KISS XM, which is CHR/Rhythmic, and does play a fair amount of African-American & Hispanic artists, is not really urban-focused, because they play many dance mixes of pop songs as well, so they do have a more "mainstream"/Caucasian interpretation of Rhythmic. I do think it's a somewhat interesting CHR, as very few stations will actually play dance mixes *only* on certain pop songs. These mixes are often not heard, or not heard frequently, on any other XM channel, so it does liven up KISS 21.

A wildcard idea is a Christian CHR (I know, another white-bread format, but hear it out.). CC's Format Lab did contain such an animal at one point, and it is a format hole on XM, as The Message definitely skews older toward the Inspo/Worship side of things these days. The one at Format Lab, "Hits on High" contained Christian comedy clips, short Bible verses, etc. so it was not just wall-to-wall music. They also do have at least one terrestrial station in a similar format, Shine 96.7.
 
Johnathan said:
Yeah, I have to agree the CC on XM family doesn't include a lot of diversity. Even KISS XM, which is CHR/Rhythmic, and does play a fair amount of African-American & Hispanic artists, is not really urban-focused, because they play many dance mixes of pop songs as well, so they do have a more "mainstream"/Caucasian interpretation of Rhythmic. I do think it's a somewhat interesting CHR, as very few stations will actually play dance mixes *only* on certain pop songs. These mixes are often not heard, or not heard frequently, on any other XM channel, so it does liven up KISS 21.

A wildcard idea is a Christian CHR (I know, another white-bread format, but hear it out.). CC's Format Lab did contain such an animal at one point, and it is a format hole on XM, as The Message definitely skews older toward the Inspo/Worship side of things these days. The one at Format Lab, "Hits on High" contained Christian comedy clips, short Bible verses, etc. so it was not just wall-to-wall music. They also do have at least one terrestrial station in a similar format, Shine 96.7.
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I personally think KISS-XM plays too many "Dance" remixes of Pop songs that sound a lot like the playlist of Energy 92.7 in San Francisco. And I'm also wondering if KISS-XM will add "American Top 40" with Ryan Seacrest to their lineup?

Any thoughts?
 
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