Sirius XM Radio Inc. are expanding Bob Dylan's award-winning Theme Time Radio Hour show to open up multiple hours of uninterrupted listening on The Spectrum channel.
Starting on Sunday, February 8th, Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour will air on The Spectrum (Sirius channel 18 and XM channel 45) for four uninterrupted hours from 4-8pm ET.
The weekly four-hour additional programming will kick off with an encore of the new show that debuted on Deep Tracks (Sirius channel 16 and XM channel 40) that prior Wednesday.
The marathon will continue with two shows from the Theme Time Radio Hour vault as well as an additional encore of Wednesday's show.
The Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout said it best about the show:
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour will still air at its regularly schedule timeslot, every Wednesday at 11am ET on Deep Tracks.
The weekly four-hour additional programming will kick off with an encore of the new show that debuted on Deep Tracks (Sirius channel 16 and XM channel 40) that prior Wednesday.
The marathon will continue with two shows from the Theme Time Radio Hour vault as well as an additional encore of Wednesday's show.
The Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout said it best about the show:
"To listen to 'Theme Time Radio Hour' is to rediscover the sense of musical adventure that old-fashioned disc jockeys with strongly individual personalities offered in the days before big-money stations pinned their fiscal hopes to the rigid Top 40-style playlists that took the fun out of radio."
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour will still air at its regularly schedule timeslot, every Wednesday at 11am ET on Deep Tracks.
Of course this is good but....
I don't get it. TTRH would seem to me to be exactly the opposite of the direction that this company is trying to go.
Someone please explain this to me.
sounds like they are trying to pick up where XMLIve-Ch 2 left off and add more dedicated artists channels. glad to see the programming geniuses are bumping originally programming to air repeats. :(
so when are they going to pick up the slack for Fred and Fungus?
Theme Time Radio Hour is worth the price os a subsctiption all on it's own. Nuff said.
about time!! I'm so fed up with transition and merged channels and lack of clear communication. Pre merger I would love my Wednesdays w Bob and nextday's tom petty Thursday. I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO CATCH A SINGLE TTRH since the combining and merging and purgin. If it was not for Howie, Dylan, LittleSteven, and E Street the product has been eroded; but credit due for this small step in the enlightened direction
I imagine they are trying to capture some of the revenue off the pirated shows that do the rounds on the net.
XMX Channel 2 was easily one of the best channels on XM. You always knew where to find original content and the schedule was simple. Listen when you want.
XM2 was the best channel on satellite radio. All Wednesday with Bob TTRH, Thursdays with Tom Petty, followed by the Marty Stewart show. The change was a disaster. A small window of time to these shows-never knowing for sure the station or time. Bob for one hour on Wed. at 11:00am? Even though the economy sucks, a few of us still have jobs and can't listen during the day.
I was thinking of stopping my subscription because I was so fed up with the changes. I wish they would bring XM2 back. I would trade one day of that for a year of Howard Stern. I also enjoyed Wednesdays and Thursays, but the Artist Confidential was also good. But this is a step in the right direction.
"The Spectrum (Sirius channel 18 and XM channel 45) for four uninterrupted hours from 4-8pm ET"
That is funny... uninterrupted music on Sirius... fat chance. Expect annoying, parochial channel ID's between every other song. The "rectum" does that all day long anyway, so why should they treat the Dylan show any differently?
ShastaTodd,
Here's an idea; we should all demand that they add more chit chat, more channel ID's, eliminate more of the most popular channels, and absolutely demand that they stop playing a wide variety of music.
Since they have always done the exact opposite of what the subscribers want, this may be the only strategy that has a chance in hell of working!