My XM Radio as I knew it, is gone..

[Condem]

Woke up today to a whole new format. Looks like mostly Sirius to me. This is going to take some getting use to.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Where did you find the new format?

I've been waiting to sign up for the new combined programming.

[Burma Jones]

3. Here's a look......

http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/channel_guide.pdf

[Condem]

6. Thanks, new!

[grannie4peace]

10. xm looks the same to me?

according to the channel guide

[Condem]

12. Mine's totally changed, grannie.

I do get E Street radio & a Zeppelin channel. Lost a ton of my favorites, though. Not good.

[Orsino]

39. The few channels I care about are still there.

167, 150, 151, 64, 227.

So, has the merger led to higher prices yet?

[AzNick]

65. Leftie talkies and quebecois channels still there...

Although the song choice sucks on the FR channels, I like to listen to them :)

I'm not buying the Sirius add-ons, really not interested in Howard Stern asking every female guest if she is into anal, I did not miss him when he left FM.

[Condem]

4. Went to xmradio.com, last

They've got the new station list.

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. Where did Bruce Williams, Bill Handel (158) and Health (157) go?

More to come, nmaybe?

[gollygee]

2. What???

Are the channels not where they should be? No Fred? ACK!

[jefferson_dem]

5. NOOOooo! Please tell me...

The Village, The Loft, Deep Tracks, and Fine Tuning are still live...

[Condem]

8. No, jefferson, they're not.

Lost my beloved Audio Visions. Got me through this election.

[Burma Jones]

13. I think Audio Visions is now "The Spa", channel 40......

[Condem]

21. Channel 72 , new.

Sounds like Audio Visions.

[Condem]

43. I'm liking The Spa after a couple of hours.

Just had me some George Winston.

[Lex]

58. Oh man, that was one soothing station.

Anything like it on now?

[Condem]

60. The Spa, Lex

Channel 72. Alex De Grassi on right now.

[Lex]

62. Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks.

I listen at my office most all day, except when I'm talking on the phone. I alternate between CNN, 70's channel, Audio Visions, The Loft (which has changed too I guess), and sometimes the Blues channel.

[high density]

25. Fine Tuning was canned.

[Ioo]

38. No More Flight 26!

What the hell

[onehandle]

7. My Sirius radio just updated too.

I'm on my way to my office and will look and see what's different then.

[KharmaTrain]

9. And Plenty More Changes On The Way

Yep...it is Sirius...part of the merger that happened earlier this year. An effort to take two failing companies and make one larger failing one. While I don't own a satellite radio (Internet is the way to go), I have been following the change-over and have friends "in the biz"...and I'm hearing that many more changes are on the way. In essence, most the original programming will drift away and it'll be nothing but a relay of over-the-air stations or "jukebox" music formats...non-stop tunes from a hard-drive.

The new company was formed with a ton of existing debt hanging over their heads and this was before the market crash. Since then stock prices have tanked and the hole has gotten deeper. It'll be interesting to see how this system survives in the next couple years.

[Balbus]

11. Channel 202 is the same...

That's all that matters to me.

[ET Awful]

14. I got a few new stations that I've been wanting from Sirius such as . . .

The Grateful Dead channel and Jam Central (what can I say, I'm a deadhead at heart and always will be).

I still have my America Left/Air America (whatever it's called these days) so I still get my talk radio I enjoy, but I now get music stations I'll actually listen to regularly.

I haven't noticed anything yet that I'll miss to be honest.

[marmar]

15. Is 167 still America Left?

n/t

[onehandle]

35. Yes. nt

[gollygee]

16. Will I find America Left and Radio Disney in the same places

My daughter likes Radio Disney, not me. :D

[theboss]

29. Radio Disney is on Sirius

Not sure of the number.

[rsmith6621]

17. What!!!!!.......No Air America BUT......

.........you can get CONSERVITIVE TALK......BULLSHIT they wont get any of my $$$$

[Lex]

20. So you are saying no Talk Left at all?

:shrug:

[theboss]

31. If you want Leftwing talk radio (which is universally awful)...

listen to Sirius Left.

[Lex]

45. any chance in hell they'll ever bring MSNBC back

gawd, I loved being able to listen to KO's show on the radio when I had to work late

[theboss]

27. Listen to Sirius Left

Sirius and XM are basically mirror images of each other.

For liberals, people on DU seem to fear change.

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

32. "America Left...Powered by Air America Radio" is still there.

I wish we could get a second channel, or one that includes 50 percent progressive talk, but no sign of that yet.

[Lex]

34. ok thanks, I didn't think they'd leave only con-talk

[drbtg1]

48. Unfortunately, Sirius subs are still stuck with Sirius Left

XM still has the better channel for progressives.

[high density]

18. They did a 100% crap job of notifying their customers

I would not have known the change was even coming unless I had visited XMFan.com last week. It feels like the value of this service keeps getting lower and lower every month.

[gollygee]

19. Yeah - why didn't they send a flyer out or something?

With the new channel lineup.

[DU9598]

37. Email notification

I have received 4 or 5 notices in the past week. Have you ever given them an email address to contact you? Perhaps snail mail notices are just slow to arrive.

[alarimer]

42. Sirius was even worse.

One email this morning about the changes. I looked everywhere to find out if my station was going away and only figured it out when Meg Griffin from Disorder announced she was moving over to the Spectrum.

[kwassa]

22. XM knocked off two of my favorites a long ago ....

A Latin jazz and an Afropop station.

Many of the stations I listen to are the same spot in the new line-up, though the classical stations have been moved.

I never understood the difference between their various rock formats in the old days. Maybe this will be an improvement.

[BoMonster]

24. No Lucy?

Wow. Lucy was the best 90's alternative rock channel I have ever listened to. A coworker that had Sirius used to be jealous when I would listen to it at work. He didn't like what Sirius offered for that genre. I guess I'll have to hope that I like the new channel. At least America Left/AA is still there.

[cherokeeprogressive]

54. Lucy is now Lithium. Sounds reasonably the same to me.

Also, I see deep tracks on the list. Someone else said it was no longer there.

[Condem]

26. XM had a great insurgent Country station,- X-Country channel 12

Looks like it's gone.

[theboss]

28. Listen to The Roadhouse or Outlaw Country

Little Steven Van Zandt programs Outlaw Country.

[Condem]

30. Thanks for the info, boss.

Appreciated.

[Berry Cool]

63. Little Steven also programs Underground Garage, which is British Invasion-style music

from all decades. I'm likin' it. They're going to have the "Breakfast with the Beatles" show every Sunday morning, and as a Clevelander, for me being able to listen to DJ Kid Leo again in the afternoons is like a step back in a time machine!

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[onehandle]

36. Sirius is reformatted too. It's a combo of both Sirus and XM.

I suspect this is far from the last major shake up.

[DangerousRhythm]

40. Sorry to hear it but I am wondering how it affects us on Sirius as well...

I did get an email and the highlight of it for me was this:



:D

I listen to one of these shows every Saturday night on my local AM radio station here in Houston, 950, Radio Mojo... normally an awful channel except for Phil Hendrie, the occasional radio drama at midnight on the weekend and "Keep Hope Alive" on Sunday mornings at 7am. It'll be good to have the ability to tune in whenever I like. Listening to American Top 40 from that era is like being thrown into a time warp. I do wonder, is that an XM station or just a retooling of the Sirius 70s station?

Here is the Sirius lineup for anyone who didn't get their email yet:

http://www.sirius.com/newlineup

[alarimer]

41. I lost my favorite Sirius Channel too.

Disorder. But what they have replaced it with (the Loft) seems okay. I just hope I can still hear Vin Scelsa's Idiots Delight today.

I realize that most of the changes occurred to the XM channel lineup.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

44. Oh Come On, WTF??? I Had No Idea Cause 130 Is Still There. But No More Squizz??? No More Lucy???

What the fuck??????

This fucking sucks!

[cherokeeprogressive]

55. Octane is the replacement for Squizz, and Lithium is the replacement for Lucy

Two of my favorites... they both sound reasonably the same to me, just new names.

[rcrush]

46. Satellite Radio sucks

I use Pandora cause its free.

[Lex]

57. I love my Sat Radio and can take it anywhere.

Home, Car, on a Walk, on vacation. Where ever.

[Condem]

59. I couldn't imagine life without it, Lex

I'm forced to listen to commercial radio at work and the station is playing fucking Chrismas music, nonstop. Started last Thursday. Absolute rubbish!

[Berry Cool]

64. Do you still have a working MyFi?

Mine finally crapped out on me after several years (the first one I owned died after only a month!) and I replaced it with a Pioneer Inno. I hate not having a built-in FM transmitter anymore, though. I don't really need the MP3 player feature, I have an iPod.

[onehandle]

47. No more "Fine Tuning." My one reason to have both systems is gone.

Calling to cancel now...

[Phx_Dem]

49. What happened to channel 101?

It has not worked for me for weeks now, display says "updating"?

[happyiowan]

50. Tis a sad day.

I'm a creature of habit. I've had XM since early 04. I was prepared for changes but it's still a shock when they come.

[Bake]

51. Acc. to my brother, the only bluegrass channel is the old XM one

And it sucked.

Bake

[boozepusher]

52. We gained 57

The Grateful Dead channel!!

[Bake]

53. That's good! But we were hoping for two bluegrass channels

One for the hard-core stuff like Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, etc., and one for the more progressive stuff like New Grass Revival, Tony Rice, etc.

Looks like the progressive stuff lost out.

Bake

[negativenihil]

56. just nix'ed my xm sub

such a sad day. first fungus, and now ethel, lucy, and fred - not to mention the GUTTING of my beloved liquid metal.

thank goodness for my ipod.

[michreject]

61. Willie Nelson is still there

But where's the NFL? I see the NBA. Yea!!!!