Question re: Sirus radio and AAR

[Razorback_Democrat]

how often does AAR or talk left get interrupted by sports.

the info I've been reading (considering whether to get Sirius or XM) on Sirius says that these two stations (and others) can be interrupted to broadcast a sporting event, like NFL, etc.

Anyone have experience with this??

[ET Awful]

1. Only on weekends when AAR is playing re-runs anyway. n/t

[linazelle]

2. It happened a lot in the two months before the presidential election

I called them about it because they don't interrupt all stations--and even if the interruptions are on weekends, that's often when I get to hear lots of stuff I missed during the week. I may go with XM next year even if they do cut randi short by one hour daily.

[Razorback_Democrat]

3. Thanks for the info!

:bounce:

[quaoar]

4. The only time I have heard it interrupted was on the weekend

When AAR has re-runs anyway.

[WolverineDG]

5. it's only been on weekends

& when aar is running repeats. if they're running one of the few weekend live shows, those haven't been interrupted. they do the same thing on radio left.

it hasn't bothered me at all & i like having 2 channels to listen to, esp. when aar is running repeats of al franken & i can switch to radio left to listen to thom hartmann.

dg

[xultar]

6. Only on the weekends, when they are running Best of from the week n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Fairly infrequently IMHO nt

[oc2002]

8. I thought XM does not carry AAR at all.

nt.

[BlueEyedSon]

9. XM has a leftie talk stream that carries about 75% of AAR

Weekday Schedule:
6AM-9AM ET Morning Sedition Marc Maron, Sue Ellicott, Mark Riley
9AM-12PM ET Unfiltered Lizz Winstead, Chuck D, Rachel Maddow
12PM-3PM ET The O'Franken Factor Al Franken, Katherine Lanpher
3PM-6PM ET The Ed Schultz Show Ed Schultz
6PM-7PM ET The Randi Rhodes Show Randi Rhodes
7PM-8PM ET So What Else is News Marty Kaplan
8PM-10PM ET The Majority Report Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder
10PM-1AM ET The Alan Colmes Show Alan Colmes

As you can see, they skip Malloy and have a (very) abbreviated Randy show. Sirius has the whole schedule.

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=ChannelAsset&cid=1081440138733