SiriusXM Channel Changes

Keith Gable — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:45:00 -0600

I’m pretty happy to be a Sirius subscriber. Commercial free music for the win! Anyway, today they pushed a major channel update that incorporated a ton of channels from XM, sans commercials. Among those channels they moved, they replaced almost all of the pop channels 4-9 with XM versions or combined with Sirius versions. Which I like a lot better. The Pulse moved up to 12 (taking over what used to be Super Shuffle?), and they put a real 90’s pop channel there, which is awesome because I didn’t like The Pulse, but I definitely dig 90’s on 9. I’m also pretty happy with the fact there’s a 2000’s pop channel, because people in my car sometimes want to listen to something besides my presets, and that’s fine. Now, it’s stupid they didn’t put it on channel 10 or 20 to fit in the numbering scheme they’ve been using (except that would piss off Bruce Springsteen and/or Octane, but screw them both). And what pisses me off about that is that they replaced Boombox with that channel.

And that’s not the only channel they killed that I liked. They killed BackSpin 43 and BuzzSaw 19 too. I would say BuzzSaw wasn’t dead per se, but Eddie Trunk is annoying - I much prefer Long Paul, Keith Roth, and Kim Mulligan - and my experience with Eddie is just at Rocklahoma. Especially since they replaced BuzzSaw with AC/DC radio until next year. Yeuck - AC/DC rules, but not 24/7. Throw in some other hard bands and you get, well, BuzzSaw! Either way, it looks like we screwed XM out of Boneyard, so I guess I can be happy about that (but we got screwed out of it too - it doesn’t start until next year).

That said, on the other presets I had that changed, I am totally happy with the new changes. bpm can replace Boombox as far as I’m concerned, and they kept the Sirius DJs for Big 80’s (80s on 8).

Update 11/13: Since they’re broadcasting the same feed on both XM and Sirius, the XM “non explicit channels” that made me not buy XM in the first place are fed over to Sirius. I’m fucking pissed. 1-888-539-SIRIUS (7474) is the number to call. Seriously, I’m paying $6/mo, I want my profanity goddamnit.

"SiriusXM Channel Changes" by Kevin Lockett

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:08:08 -0600

I’ve started a campaign to bring the old school hip hop stattion Backspin back to Sirius FM.

To learn more go to:

http://keepersoftheart.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-want-my-backspin-station-on-sirius-xm.html

Thanks,

Kevin Lockett locketmedia@yahoo.com

The Ignition Project: SiriusXM Channel Changes

SiriusXM Channel Changes

"SiriusXM Channel Changes" by Kevin Lockett