First impressions: Now with combined channels, what do you think?

I think Sirius XM fumbled this from a customer experience perspective. An email the morning of the change? Are you kidding me? Should have sent out flyers two weeks ago explaining it all, thanking us for our support, etc. In any economy customer service is critical. And two of my top three stations are gone.

Rest in peace, Boombox. You were loved. And while Alt Nation is good, recommending it as a pseudo-replacement is pretty ridiculous.

I'm disappointed that there is no Classic Hip-hop station. I'm evaluating how I can downgrade my package, now that I will be listening to a lot less radio.

I've only listened to XM for a little bit. So far, I'm not too pleased with the programming. Let's hope it gets better.

I am happy as can be. I switched to XM just because it was factory installed in my car. I missed the channels that were on sirius, and now I have them and Howard! Woo Hoo!

A boo

The only issue I have so far is the removal of the dedicated Punk channels, which is extremely disappointing. I emailed a complaint but sadly I suspect that went right into the digital circular file.

Everything else seems pretty good to me so far. The channels I listen to most frequently have remained the same or have even been improved ("The Vault" now becomes "Deep Tracks", which I hear has a better, deeper playlist, for example).

I'm sure there will be tons of complaints about the "death" of XM from those who've been bitching and moaning from the day this merger was announced. Please just cancel your sub and go away. Terrestrial radio awaits your listenership.

Long live Sirius XM.

:)

So old skool hip hop now is down to a daily program on HHN? I could find no information under HHN shows about when that program is on. I really hope it runs for a good portion of the day since Shade 45 covers a lot of the new stuff...

Not happy....but there is one assumption we are all making...that is...we are assuming that the channel names carry with them the same Sirius programming...we don't know if any of the XM PDs will be involved. My guess is no, or if yes, only to a limited extent, which is sad.

REALLY enjoying my Slacker today...

I'm sure they'll be tweaking things over the next several weeks, but my preliminary observations so far:

-Lithium fucking SUCKS. The playlist and even the sweepers sound IDENTICAL to every "alternative" FM station on the planet. What a pathetic, halfassed, and completely unworthy substitute for Lucy.

-So far, Deep Tracks has survived intact, and it even seems a little fresher and more energetic than usual. Sirius subscribers: Note the interesting songs, the classy sweepers, and that the DJ only talks when he has something relevant and interesting to say. This is how most XM music channels were programmed, and it's why many of us are rather pissed off about losing so many of them to Sirius's "FM without commercials" philosophy.

I'm reserving judgment.

I think that many of us who chose either XM or Sirius did so because we liked the depth of the playlists or the frequency of favorite tunes...and I think it will take some time to see what the "merged" playlists look like.

I'm not happy with Sirius' Chill winning out over XM's Chill, the loss of Raw and Fine Tuning, or the flattening of BPM's playlist and the increase in whineyness on Highway 16.

However, as someone who streams BBC Radio One online when in the mood, I don't mind seeing it replace U-POP in the XM lineup. I'm cautiously optimistic that the Squizz->Octane transition will be satisfactory, and I'm pleased that POTUS will survive to a great extent.

So we'll see how it shakes out. The XM lineup is still far superior to broadcast radio, but I haven't decided whether it's broad enough anymore to justify maintaining my subscription, given that the songs on my iPhone are pretty eclectic and paid for.

Let's see, shallower playlists, annoying DJs, insipid country on "the Roadhouse", nothing special on "Outlaw", a lot of wasted bandwidth for single artist channels. If that's all I want, I can get it from HD radio without a subscription fee. Goodbye XM, it was fun while it lasted.

I like it so far, exactly what I expected out of the merger if I choose not to buy into the the best of XM.

The real test will be to see what deal (if any) is worked out for the upcoming MLB season, for me, as a Sirius subscriber, is the only thing stopping me from upgrading my package.

So far so good though, I have been giving the gift of Sirius the last 2 holiday seasons and that will not change this year.

I personally think its BS. I'm also sure Lee Abrams is thinking damn there goes a good thing down the drain, glad I got out when I did.

Owell we'll see how it goes from here. I plan to continue to subscribe but we'll see how much longer it is worth.

I don't mind it too much here (sirius user) most of my channels I listen to did not change and I only lost boombox which i only listened to once in a while. Can't find a channel like it now but i am sure i will soon.

Other than that, I am happy.

I'm basically satisfied. Of course, this is also allowing me to get rid of some extra radios. I now only have one Sirius radio (I like baseball, so XM is my first choice). By adding the Best of Sirius to my XM radio, I get everything I want now.

Forties on Four? Ugh. Very bummed about Disorder and Hot Jamz gone. I hope MLB gets added to the best of XM. Overall it seems XMers came away with the better deal.

No Problems Im happy with it.Its all we have now and Im keeping my subscriptions active,all 4 radios!!I cant live with out this . To me each side got something new and different out of it.If one is not happy, like Mikehunt says Cya. FM is still there you can have it and you can whine to them and see where that will get you.

OK lineup... I actually subsribe to both services in the house but have XM in the car si its good to have The Dead channel now while I'm driving. I noticed that there is NO OLD SCHOOL RAP (yes I have many musical tastes) on neither radios. Very disappointing. Othet than that we'll see....

Personally, I think they did a great job combining the channel lineups. They brought over the best XM channels (granted they renamed some) and the best Sirius channels. This should satisfy almost everyone.

As someone who has XM factory installed in my car, but Sirius at work and home, so far so good for me. Now having Radio Margaritaville, Bruce Springsteen and the Underground Garage on XM is great.

The concern I would have is whether we start seeing the shorter play lists on the decades and rock channels that Sirius is know for, compared to the deeper XM play lists. Only time will tell. The only other thing, as someone who likes the Indy Talk channel, is the fact they have been merged with POTUS and the revised lineup seems to limit the former Indy channel voices.

I am satisfied. I once had both Sirius and XM and peferred Sirius to XM. Now that Sirius listeners will have access to shows like Bob Dylan and Tom Petty plus channels like Willie Nelson and BB King, I am happy with the lineup.

All you guys bitching need to have a open mind and give the new channels a fair shake. If you can't find something you like after a month, cancel your subscription and go back to testicle radio. I know I'd rather stick a knife in my ear.

My wife and daughter are peeved. They liked Kid Stuff on Sirus. We gave the XM channel a listen back in June and were quite unimpressed - it seemed to be for kids older than the juice-box age and more for tweens.

All the channels I bought XM for 6.5 years ago are now gone, and there are no replacements.
No need to purchase that.

btw, The cancellation dept was very busy.

It's going to be 3 years before the auto industry rebounds, so the company should have known it's easier to keep a loyal customer than to find a new on.

I will go away now.

Now that the merger has taken place, how long will it be before the new organization decides to increase the monthly subscription?

they should just merge everything. the best of package does nothing for me because My reciever cannot pick up the new channels. If I want to add best of XM, all I get are a few channels and I have to take my car to a custom stereo place and pay about $500 - $1000 to get the best of XM.

I don't want the xm channels that bad.

I also think if the company just made everything one package, they would have a really great product that would bring in more new subscribers.

I'm a Sirius subscriber so I guess I've been impacted the least. I will miss Buzzsaw hopefully when The Boneyard comes back it will be more like Buzzsaw and less like Hairnation. I added Liquid Metal to that preset for now... I was glad to see this Pop2k channel get added. I know it's similar to Sirius Hits 1 but it's nice to have another station to go to for current hits. I'll probably have to spend a little time reconfiguring a few presets but overall I'm not too upset. There are a few stations that I'll need to figure out.

The Blend? Highway - I assume this is current counrty?

I'm pretty darn happy with what I'm seeing so far.

I'm a dual subscriber and based on what I see/hear, I can't figure out why anyone would not run to XM right now unless you want the NFL. XM has more variety in terms of today's music, MLB, college sports, and you can get Stern too.

Here's hoping for new news on portable devices coming from CES in January for icing on the cake!

They eliminated Fine Tuning, and replaced Audio Visions with the (so far) inferior Spa. They butchered XM Chill and POTUS (why fire Scott Walterman, huh?!) And now we've got THREE single-band stations!

It's basically FM radio that I have to pay for. Not sure how long I'll be keeping it.

So far so good.

I'm missing Bone Yard, but Hair Nation isn't all that bad. Bone Yard will be back in January anyway.

I'll be checking out the E street Channel and Radio Margaritaville.

I've had a brief taste of the combined 70's and 80's channels. No complaints.

Jury's still out, but it's stil %100000000000 times better than regular radio.

This stinks. Every music channel I listened to is gone. When do I get the option to go talk only and drop the music? Whether you like the new line up or not, the idea of satellite radio is dead. This is nothing but a bunch of corporate programmed channels. No more niche stuff. No more interesting stuff. Just focus group tested stations and programming. Very sad.

And I still have yet to be informed of the change from XM. Still not even an email and here I have an entire new channel line-up. Great management. If this is what to continue to expect there won't be a service to subscribe to soon. I can't wait for SiriusXM to go out of business, maybe I'll be interested in what their replacement has to offer, perhaps it will be closer to the the original vision of making radio fun again.

Mike, go suck a bag of cocks. The service just became FM radio only now they think I'll pay for it. I've already cancelled 3 subs and unless I can opt out of this shit list of music channels the final one will go too. It's complacent pussy's like you that allow the company to hoist this shit on us in the first place.

I received an email from XM at 3:30 AM EST last night. It had links to all the information on the website. As for no niche programming? Really? Since when are channels like the Grateful Dead Channel, Area, Blues, Jazz, etc not niche channels? I am really pleased with the new lineup. I like my XM radio alot more now. To me, this new lineup has more variety than before.

I received an email from XM at 3:30 AM EST last night. It had links to all the information on the website. As for no niche programming? Really? Since when are channels like the Grateful Dead Channel, Area, Blues, Jazz, etc not niche channels? I am really pleased with the new lineup. I like my XM radio alot more now. To me, this new lineup has more variety than before.

Well, I bet Sirius subscribers think it's great, but XM subscribers got f-ed. We've lost X-Country and all of the shows they offered, but woo-hoo, we have HillBilly Jim on Outlaw Country (no joke, Hillbilly Jim, the '80s wrestler, is a DJ. I'm sure he's a fan of Robert Earl Keen [snark]). We've lost UPop. We've lost Raw, Rhyme, a bunchj of Spanish stations, XMX, Fungus, Lucy, Fred, etc. This was a takeover, pure and simple, and they screwed over their XM subscribers with no warning whatsoever. I'll give this til the weekend, then I'm going to seriously consider canceling unless they offer XM subscribers something in return for taking all of these stations away from us.

Here's the email sent to me.

Dear XM Listener,

We are pleased to announce our new channel lineup with more than 170 channels of premier music, sports, news, and entertainment from both XM and SIRIUS.

Along with your favorites, we've mixed in new channels, shows, personalities, legendary DJs and celebrity hosts, to give you more of everything you love about satellite radio, including new music channels like:

* E Street Radio bringing you closer to Bruce Springsteen through interviews, guest DJs, studio outtakes, concerts, and more.
* Radio Margaritaville playing great music and live broadcasts from multi-platinum singer, songwriter and author Jimmy Buffett.
* The Grateful Dead Channel boasting music spanning the band's career, shows hosted by band members, and rare interviews with Jerry Garcia.

And new entertainment channels including:

* New comedy channels, like Blue Collar Radio, featuring Jeff Foxworthy, and The Foxxhole produced by Jamie Foxx.
* New sports, including NBA play-by-play coverage of the '08-'09 season.
* New talk, including SIRIUS XM Stars with favorites from our Take Five channel, plus new shows from hosts like Barbara Walters and Deepak Chopra.

We encourage you to go online to learn more about our new channels and improved programming at xmradio.com/newlineup

You'll have even more to love about XM with all of our new programs and personalities.

Thank you for being a loyal listener.

Sincerely,
SIRIUS XM Radio

Here's XM's page explaining the changes, new channels, new channel names, new channel numbers, and removed channels.

http://www.xmradio.com/onxm/lineup.xmc

So far, I'm fine with the changes.

I already miss XMX - Channel 2 (XM Exclusives)

But I am very glad to see that the XM15 "The Village" remains and is joined by Siruis "The CoffeeHouse.

I also prefer XM15 Radio Classics over Sirius' Old time Radio.

With the Best of Sirius, I now have all my sports, Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins, and favorite music stations.

Just my opinion, your most likely will differ.

Bob

I miss Fred on 44. 1st Wave doesn't quite cut it for me. I tuned in this morning and they were playing The Bangles. Gack.

I know that it is easy to just piss am moan, especially being an XM customer. One of my favorite XM Channels, 70s On 7 became Sirius Totally 70s, just renamed to keep it the same on both platforms. Within minutes I was reminded of why I disliked Sirius Totally 70's. Awful, over goofy, and chatty DJ Magic Matt was making the same stupid jokes he was making two years ago when I cancelled my Sirius subscription.. That is a bummer. A lot of the Rock Channels were replaced with Sirius Rock channels and I immediately felt like I was listening to a Time Life commercial. Play lists that were nothing but the most common hits that have been played to death. So my first impression isn't a good one. For someone who listens to satellite radio in small doses, I’m sure this would be fine. For people like me who listen in the car, at home, and at work, this is hell.

Truth of the matter is that I got XM four years ago for Opie & Anthony. I knew nothing about anything else it offered and at the time I didn’t care. I discovered the music channels just by surfing around. Originally I hated most of them because the play lists were too deep. I was coming from FM radio, so I couldn't relate to a lot of the programming. Shortly after I got Dish Network and Sirius music channels were part of the package. I loved them. All the music was familiar and the DJs were animated just like on FM. I went as far as to get a Sirius radio for my car to listen to when I heard the O&A show for that day and on weekends. After about a year I started realizing that everything I loved about Sirius was starting to grate on my nerves. Everyday the music was the same with very little variation. I started to feel like each station had about 200 songs that were put on shuffle. Then when the music wasn't doing it for me, I started to realize that the DJ's were over the top and annoying. They added nothing to music they were playing. They were talking just to talk.

I started going back to my XM and listening to the music channels again. About two years ago they did a major overhaul and improved a lot of the stations that seemed too random. The 70’s channel was a perfect example of the improvement with the addition of program director John Clay. Soon after Ethel and The Boneyard were greatly improved. Now I was really enjoying the XM music stations. Enough so that I cancelled my Sirius subscription and bought two more XM units so that I could listen to it in the car, at home, and at work. For the past two years XM has been my favorite form of entertainment. Once merger talks really started to become a reality I had a bad feeling that this is how it would all end up. Mel Kamazin is at Sirius; he comes from an FM background and would ultimately remove the unique sounds of XM and turn it into FM without commercials. This morning when I turned on my XM and did a little channel surfing that is the feeling I got. Watered-down, monotonous FM like radio. Once Mel K. decided to re-sign the contract with Clear Channel to continue their music stations on XM, I figured that XM was well on it's way to becoming a Sirius clone. Mel’s take was that the Clear Channel music stations that run commercials generated revenue and were worth renewing. If I am paying a subscription fee, there shouldn’t be commercials on any music channels. Those five channels are using bandwidth that should be allocated for better use.

At this point as long as O&A continue on XM, I will have at least one subscription. Hopefully if Sirius XM manages to keep afloat the music channel will be looked at and revamped offering deeper play lists and more diversity. I think that if a lot of customers are really unhappy it will show and they'll be forced to do something about it. The sting would have been a lot less severe if Sirius XM wouldn’t have kept everyone in the dark about the changes. Customer input was obviously not a concern. It would have been nice to have more of an equal blending of the channel offerings, or at least if more of the XM programmers were incorporated into the new offerings. I realize that this is the beginning of a new phase. There is the chance that things will improve and also a chance that the company will go under. At this point all anyone can do is speculate and wait. Since I am a fan of satellite radio, I guess that I will root for its success and hope for the best.

I'm less than thrilled about Cinemagic going on hiatus on both Sirius and XM. Also, I'm not sure why the channel lineups aren't synchronized. Why is Cinemagic on XM-76 and S-81? Why not put both in the same slot?

Aside from that, both my car radios (both Sirius and XM) updated without a glitch. Just prefer some commonality with the channel assignments.

dude do me a favor if ur gonna complain and belly ache and whine like a two yr old please do it somewhere else i know xm is gone but u don't see me complaining im giving it a chance and if i dont like what i see i will cancel too but so far i happen to like what they did and i think it will help down the road

For me, most of my XM channels remained intact and I like the new voices I heard on 50's and 70's, and now I get BBC Radio 1. Could have been worse.

I'm very happy - I am getting more than I had hoped for and far, far less than the doomsday commentator's messages here have led me to believe that I would be getting. BBC 1? Great! Chris Moyles in the morning! NPR "Fresh air"? Great! They kept My favorites: Escape, Chill, etc. The ones that changed are only slight changes : System became Area, High Standards became Sinatra, Audiovision became Spa (and seems to have taken the best thing about Audiovision - the good accoustics prgramming). They kept Radio Classics (I love Greg Bell's informative chit chat between shows).
After reading months of fear mongering here, I am getting more reenforced in my view that the Internet is great in many ways but that it is not always a blessing that anyone can publish their opinions without any filters whatsoever. You would have thought that Sirius-XM was cutting down its programming to practically zero and playing nothing but Michael Bolton 24/7 (if they did that, there would be no subscribers). And I am glad that they got rid of so many Spanish music stations that were taking up bandwidth. AM radio is already awash in Mexican and Spanish music stations. We don't need Satrad for that and I doubt that those stations brought many customers to XM.

Why is Area 38 now just called "Area"? Couldn't they have just used a more normal name? What is an "Area"? What does this mean?

And, why didn't they unify the channel numbers, too?

So far not that bad. But tell the Jocks to shut up and just play the music. Why in between The Beatles and The Doors do I want to here that Shia LaBouf's crashed car is for sale on eBay. If you have to open up mouth at least make it relevant.

Too soon to tell.

Since I was extremely sorry to see XCountry go, I have been spending most of the morning so far listening to Outlaw Country. I am not sure if they expanded their list or not, but they did seem to have a lot of the artists I am used to hearing there. I have noticed several artists played multiple times already(although not the same track).

I have changed presets and am including some new channels from Sirius (Spectrum, E Street, Radio Margaritaville, etc.)

I think we all should be willing to give this some time. There is a lot to digest.

Great! Overnight, XM just got turned into FM radio---Part II. I've been a dual subscriber for several years, but XM always had the better music channels hands down. I just can't get through to customer care fast enough, but apparently I'm not the only person cutting ties this morning.

it will take a week or two to really listen and find out how it is as i was an xm only guy but i gotta say that losin rhyme xm 65 really sucks i dnt listen to rap a lot but when i do i like to kick it old school. they also should have kept xmx instead of pushing all the shows on deep tracks.

it will take a week or two to really listen and find out how it is as i was an xm only guy but i gotta say that losin rhyme xm 65 really sucks i dnt listen to rap a lot but when i do i like to kick it old school. they also should have kept xmx instead of pushing all the shows on deep tracks.

Good: America Left is still the XM version, not the Sirius version. Cinemagic was spared (tho it's gone until January). XMU is also mostly spared.

Bad: Fred, Lucy and Ethel are now dumbed-down all-hits versions of themselves, as are 70s-on-7 and 80s-on-8. Vox is gone. U-Pop is gone. AudioVisions is gone. POTUS might as well be gone without Scott and Rebecca.

My subs are both up in almost exactly one month from now. I'm still not sure if I'm going to renew or not. It depends on how grating the bad changes will be for me during that time.

And I agree with others that trying to keep everyone in the dark on this just made it all the worse. Somebody needs to remind Big Daddy Mel that we are all paying for the privilege of listening, and that ought to mean we should get a little better treatment than the masses who listen to terrestrial crap radio for free. I'm just saying.

Strangely enough, I miss the XM sounder the most

The 5 channels I actually listened to on XM are gone, my favorite being XM 67 The City w/ the multiple DJ's just mixing. I have my doubts as to whether I will keep my subscription or just goto the talk package so I can keep O and A.

I haven't listened to it that much yet.. it seems okay so far. Although there seem to be more 'station identifications' then there were on XM. I'm hoping though that maybe they're just doing that to let new XM users know what's going on.

Good 'ol MikeHunt (nice nick by the way, what are you, 12?) with his lame 'ol stab at XM customers.

Heaven forbid someone with a brain might like deeper playlists than the same 'ol stuff Sirius and terrestrial play.

Keep up the good work, sheep.

I dont know what they done to sirius big 80s but the 80s music channel they are trying to pass off on us right now just isnt going to cut it. They have taken a channel that basically had all the 80s hits you knew and loved and have replaced it with songs youve never heard of before. ITS CPAP. whoever is playing the music on that channel wouldnt know the 80s if it bit them in the ass. Im not asking, Im demanding they put the 80s channel back to the way it was. Ok ok so i cant demand it but for the love of god they have to fix this crap thats on there now.

JG NYC I'm with you. I hate to see X Country go. Outlaw Country is OK but it's definitely not as good. I called XM Radio to complain and they are taking feedback and said if enough people complain, they'll put X Country back on.

So far so good. Too many unanswered questions through. I feel bad for people who's lives were turned upside down. the benefit of SATRAD was you could listen to music that you could not hear over the terrestrial airwaves. Punk, and other alternative variations which have been killed. You pay money monthly for the privilege of listening to what you want to listen to. For these people I dont blame them for wanting to cancel. Maybe if enough people call and complain and cancel, it will make a difference. But the reality is that the amount of people who listened to these channels was not enough to keep them. Who knows.. As for me, I got Sirius mainly for one thing.. NFL. I am so happy I have it especially since I am a redskins fan and Dan Snyder has ruined the ability of DC area people to listen to the games on the radio. That is the only thing that I think could be worse for SATRAD. If Dan Snyder were to buy Sirius XM it would only be avail in the boon docks and you would not be able to listen to it after dark because the signal would drop to 25 watts.

I am hoping they mix up the music on the 80s channel. I have always liked the sirius 80s channel with the MTV VJ's but I will admit I did hear the XM 80s channel earlier this year when I was on a trip and I thought they had a better variety. So I hope they use the XM music catalog for the 80s channel. From what I have hard so far I think they are which makes me happy.

So, I think its good.

Good luck getting back the channels that have been dropped.

So what channels have disappeared?

I'm a longtime Sirius subscriber and I'm disappointed by the apparent loss of specialty shows on some of the combined channels.

All of the specialty shows from XMU and Left of Center appear to be gone on the new Sirius/XMU.

What happened to "Party Out of Bounds with Fred Schneider" and "Dark Wave" on 1st Wave?

Was "The Big 80s Big 40 Countdown" with Nina Blackwood replaced by "Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40" (80s) on The 80s on 8?

For what it's worth, a quick check of Sirius Canada's Website, shows the same changes to their lineup (though Sirius/XMU is listed as "Sirius U").

3 U2 songs in Lithium since about 8:30 this morning. These playlists appear to be much more shallow than XM's old ones. Keeping my fingers crossed but not optimistic. There is a reason after all that I signed up for XM and not Sirius.

The only complaint I can come up is THE BEAT is now BPM and the music on BPM is awful. Liking everything else

Mel Karmazin is determined to boost iPod sales.

They restrict all channels to a 500 song playlist, take away many of the personalities from shows, like Bill Hutton from XM54 (Lucy).

It appears like the idea that started years ago with XM being the "wild west" with visionaries like Lee Abrams is become another corporate bag of crap.

O&A and Ron and Fez are the only reasons why I have XM at this point, and I can download their shows daily. Sure I can't listen live and call in, but I can still hear them.

This is another example of a big company not caring about it's fanbase.

I may flush my XM down a toilet, go fu.... well, you know the rest.

I actually like it more than I thought. I'm enjoying the Spectrum and Underground Garage. My worries are that these stations will sound stale in a couple of weeks. That was the issue when I had Sirius before - great for an initial 14 days, then repetitive.

I am happy with WRN and NPR being added, though.

How do I like it? It stinks.

The reason why I dumped Sirius and changed to XM was because I liked the deeper playlists and more then 1 or 2 songs in a row without an annoying interruption. Now XM has been dumbed down to the Sirius level.

Satellite radio is on the edge of bankruptcy. If they want to draw subscribers, may I suggest offering us something different than we can get for free on the FM radio band?

Todd

Happy. The doomsday folks seem to be full of hot air. This is great! I have more on Sirius now then I did before.

Sad to see Sirius Disorder do, however.

So far as a sirius customer
I like it

I never liked the Big 80s because I find the VJs annoying, and I'm sad to hear that they've made the move to 80s on 8.

So far so good. I like "The Loft" and just like Sirius overall. I'm a pretty new subscriber, but I feel like those complaining haven't had to deal with terrestrial radio for a LONG time. Those who think this is anything like terrestrial radio are very mistaken. Where I live we have maybe 15 stations of ads and playlists 20-40 songs large.

The only complaint I have is THE BEAT going to BPM. The music on bpm sucks. THE BLEND is a great pick up for Sirius side of it. Think everything seem to be good so far

Disappointed with Faction so far. Tuned in and hear Tool and Linkin Park that stuff should be left to Octane. I like that there is talk programming on it though. Lithium and Alt. Nation seems to be okay. XMU seems to be the same type of stuff as before so that is good. Looking forward to checking out Jason Ellis on faction as well as Margaritaville and Outlaw Country

Well, I am fairly confident that its going to go bankrupt and get reorganized, and maybe then new managment without the presence of Mel (he will take his millions of marbles and go home.) will listen to all and realize that the deep playlists were one of the main drivers and add them back. Then it can come back as the thing it was supposed to be.

A

I hate all these '24/7 Insert Band Name Here' channels right now...

I'm a HUGE AC/DC fan, but I OWN all the albums!

I'll never listen to a 24/7 Grateful Dead or Bruce Springsteen channel...

I'd like a Rockabilly and a REAL Punk station..

The jury is still out as far as I'm concerned.

The channel transition went smoothly. Even logos on stored music on my Inno changed. Very poor job of communication by management though. If not for the various forums, I wouldn't have known about it until this morning. I'm guessing that there are a lot of subscribers who are confused as hell on what happened. You would think a seasoned corporate team would know better. It might not be Management 101, but it's part of the curriculum.

But so far the music seems okay. 60's on 6 sounds the same, and Radio Classics is still around (along with Greg Bell). I'm also enjoying Sinatra. I will miss Fine Tuning and Beyond Jazz.

The programming guide on line says that U-POP is still on and yet my radio shows -------- so what's the deal there?? as far as the rest of the music I haven't shot the load yet... the artist dedicated artist channels are pure under the nut but hut in my opinion because I think they could have one channel dedicated to these artists and just give it to each artist on individual days.. having an AC/DC channel is ok for a week I suppose.. same as for anything else but it gets old.. I have all the DC/AC I give a rats annus to own.. and I have all the Led Zep including a dozen bootleg recordings.. give it a rest.. pretty soon we'll have an ABBA channel or whatever.. if they have no idea for a channel then let it be nothing and increase sound quality..

So Far, So Good. Drove into work today lisitning to the Dead channel. Made traffic a bit easier, but is still to early to tell.

WHERE IS BACKSPIN!?!?!?!?

I am very disapointed that X country is gone. I listened to Outlaw Country for a few hours this morning, then got disgusted and switched to Napster's Americana Radio station.

I currently have 3 subscriptions for XM Radios, and may end up cancelling all of them.

First time poster - long time lurker. 4 years w/ XM. I love the change. GD channel, Jam-On and still keeping Deep Tracks.

Don't tell anyone , but I would haplliy pay double what I pay now to not listen to terrestrial radio - garbage! Choice is great! Money well spent. Too easy to spend the susbscrption money for a bar round.

It sucks. Bring back Fungus 53

I want to hear Rockabilly, Psychobilly and the damn surf music.

And bring back The Virus to DirecTV!!!!!!!!!

-Sharks!

Is LIQUID METAL programming similar to that of HARD ATTACK?

As long as they think of putting Leo Laporte on Sirius, I'll be happy.

I agree with those who have said it's too soon to tell. I will say that Outlaw Country and Roadhouse are a far cry from X Country and America. So far, can't tell much difference between the replacements for Highway 16 and US Country, so that's good. As far as rock goes, the two classic rock channels seem similar enough to Top Tracks and Big Tracks. I missed the beginning of O&A's XM portion of the show where they addressed some of the changes, so I'm looking forward to catching that on the way home from work tonight. I'll reserve judgment on Octane until the drive home.
Liquid Metal actually seems more listenable this morning; a bit less of the death metal stuff; a bit more variety. Actually heard a Cure song on 54 that I hadn't heard on radio in YEARS ("Charlotte Sometimes"), so that was kind of cool.

Still not entirely thrilled...As Opie said, we lost some great people. But, it's still far superior to what we have on FM here in Seattle. Now, off to XM's site to see if they've finally updated the channel guide to reflect the changes.

I haven't had much of a chance to dial around the radio, but as a Sirius subscriber, I just gained one country station (which is my primary interest; where I live--NYC area--there is no commercial station) and most of the rest of what I normally put on is still there. Willie's Place serves a void in Sirius' old lineup--the really old country standards, which Roadhouse dropped a few years ago. Good to see that the Bridge is coming back 1/1; it's the only station my wife and I can agree on in the car.

Everybody, please keep in mind that they had to do this. XM and Sirius were, and still are, bleeding money. The two companies could not continue separately, and merging companies without consolidating operations would have been pointless. Even so, the combined company may eventually go under, but it's my hope that if it does, something else (universal Internet radio in cars, e.g.) will exist by then to serve as an alternative to commercial radio.

Not everyone will be happy with everything. Apparently, the "Desilu" stations had quite a following on XM. But they've tried to match things that were redundant and eliminate the least popular formats. I'm sure that if something is sorely missed, there will be adjustments. The formats are not 100% in synch yet, so we should probably anticipate more changes down the pike.

BTW, the use of expletives or the implication of them ("go fu...you know the rest") does not help to support anyone's comments. It just makes you look immature, and your opinions are less likely to be valued.

Well, most of the channels I listen to daily on XM have stayed the same except The System (Ch. 82) is now gone. That's the one I was most worried about losing, too. I'm listening to Area (Ch. 80) to see how I like it, but I'm wondering if any of the content from The System will move over or if they are part of Area already. I loved Zoltar and Armin's shows. I'm going to really miss them if they aren't part of the lineup. Glad they kept BPM!

I'm also going to miss Boneyard. :(

As a sirius subscriber, I like the changes so far. Lithium, octane, and classic rewind have all seemingly expanded their playlists. They probably don't go as deep as squizz or Lucy, but there is a noticeable improvement today. I only hope it lasts.

I am very upset at the new line up. Rock stations keep growing, and more rare stations are being deleted. The reason why you get Sirius / Xm is for something "new" to listen.

Sirius and XM started with 3 channels each of Latin / Spanish channels.
Both XM and Sirius even give you the option to see the web sites in spanish.

BUT they have decided to keep one channel for both Sirius and XM?!
WTF?!

The strobe has been deleted- replaced with 70's
which is half rock / half disco... Freestyle music completely gone!

Sirius and XM should have made the effort to get the subscribers opinion or run a poll to figure out which are the more popular channels. Can they tell what you are listening to?

I cannot believe that no one has mentioned what a SCAM the Best Of packages turned out to be! Rather than offering us some of the best programming from the other service, they have effectively given everybody everything except for the 'best' of what the other service had. I thought this was a merger and everyone would be paying the same as they were pre-merger? Now, as a Sirius subscriber, I get everything an XM subscriber gets, but if I want the 8 best XM channels I have to pay extra. That makes no sense.

As an original Sirius subscriber, i originally got this service simply for Howard, i dont understand why people get so upset about the music, if it wasnt for Howard, NFL,and some of the political channels, i wouldnt have Satellite, its that simple, now that XM is merged with sirius, i get to here Opie and Anthony, and Ron and Fez, so to review the only thing that satellite radio is good for is Howard, O and A, Ron and Fez and some political channels, i have an ipod for my music, i dont need a billion music channels, my only gripe about the merger is where is MLB on sirius, i love baseball, and cant get MLB, dont care about golf basketball and nascar or oprah,anyone knows if sirius will get mlb, please post, thanks

I had the XM radio on last night at midnight ET and listened as the stations changed over. Some of the logos on my Pioneer XMP3 changed immediately with the new stations and others were up to date this morning.

Honestly, my first impression when I start flipping through all of the stations, new and old from XM is wow! So much more choice. This morning I tried to pick the 5 stations I want my XMP3 to auto record and couldn’t just choose five. Can they upgrade this thing to auto-record 10? I’m pleased that Sirius gave us stations like Jam On, Grateful Dead, Margarita Ville, The Spectrum and others. Sad to see Lucy, Fred and some others vanish. RIP old XM. But, I’m excited about the new options and like the new tag line, “Everything worth listening to is on Sirius XM.” I am very worried about playlists but even in the few hours of listening I’ve done thus far, this just isn’t regular radio so stop saying that. When I hear jocks going on and on about themselves, playing commercials and just giving me the same 30 songs over and over again with one or two extra tunes thrown in for good measure, then I’ll know I’m on the FM dial. Give this time people. But my initial reaction is that this is just great.

A perfect example of the difference between XM and Sirius is what we had the last two weekends. Whereas, in previous years, we were treated to "It" on the decades channels, which was a rundown of every hit, major and minor, since 1930, we spent the past two weekends getting something called "Greatest Its", which basically included every #1 hit and some that charted at #2 or #3, but nothing deeper than that. I fear that's what I'll have to get used to. I hope they at least keep the Casey Kasem and Rick Dees countdowns - at least I'll get to hear a little deeper music selection when they air.

I think that this transition will depend on what you're looking for from your satrad. Personally, my two favorite channels on XM were Ethel and Lucy, and both have been replaced. The great thing about Ethel and Lucy was that the playlists ran deep. Sure, you heard a lot of the same stuff every day, but the PD's and DJ's were not afraid to throw some real obscure stuff in there, even some stuff that didn't rigidly conform to the Alt music genre (like Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Moby, etc.). Given how widely acknowledged it is that Sirius' music channels are far more tightly programmed and controlled, I fear that their replacement channels are just going to be bland retreads on FM alternative stations. I will give it some time before passing final judgement, but I'm not hopeful.

On the flip side, I am happy that BPM got kept. I've come to start liking that channel a lot.

Love it. The old XM U was unlistenable (imho...sorry) and initially sounds much better as the revised Left of Center.

Got family interested now that everything is kind of sorted out. Will make a much better holiday present w/o all the confusion. Definately moving in the right direction.

I guess we'll see, I've only had a few hours to really listen but it sounds pretty good.

Happy for the most part. One nit to pick: I wish Jonathan Schwartz and Buddy Ladd could have more of a hand in programming Siriusly Sinatra.
That said, I'm thrilled he stays.

As longtime suscriber and listener of the X,I hope they did'nt drop Blackfoot'' Smokestack'' Hope they don't pull another Webb Wilder. Just got used to him and poof he's gone. Whatever XM still still beats terror radio

I can not for the life of me believe they chose Outlaw over XCountry. At 12:05 am EST a DJ came on and i was forced to change the channel. Hear that all the time about Sirius DJ's. It sucked.

Miss Beyond Jazz. "Chill" played Cold Play? WTF.
XM reinvented radio. Sirius was barely above FM radio. And now XM is dead as we knew it. So not happy.

I was extremely dissapointed on my drive in to work this morning to find most of my presets had become Sirius stations. I've been a subscriber to XM radio for the last 3 years. I listen in my car and I have another unit in the house. I love having great radio to listen to when I travel and haven't had any interest in going back to FM radio, until today.

My intial impression is dissapointment that the channels I've listened to for the last 3 years are now gone, replaced with something similar, but distinctly different. I haven't had enough chance to listen to everything these new networks have to offer, but I'm not feeling extremely optimistic about this transition.

My wife and I most listened to Squizz, Ethel, Flight 26, Lucy, and Sports Radio, but we also enjoyed a lot of the other programming. So far it seems that Octane is certainly no Squizz, either in name or quality.

I will give it a chance for a little while, but in these economic times if you aren't going to offer a product I want, I'm not going to pay to keep it. I have too many other choices between CD's and portable media players to worry about a premium radio network that doesn't care about it's fan base.

At work we always had Sirius's Starlite on in the offices, and now that it's been replaced with "The Blend", I find myself going crazy. I feel like some of the songs on The Blend are too unknown and too random. I miss StarLite!

I love it except for the fact that Octane isn't a XL channel. If I hear any edited songs I will be extremely pissed off.

Sirius relentlessly prunes its more interesting ideas. Disorder, which included Larry Kirwan and David Johansen, joins their Folk Channel and Mexican Channel in the dustbin, leaving us with anodyne coffee Shop and "The Loft." I'm assuming they will abandon the scant 1-hour that they allowed for New Orleans music.
At least Scelsa is still on WFUV.
Meg Griffin promoted the heck out of Sirius. Some reward.
I am very disappointed.

I am very disappointed that we have lost Xcountry. I loved the channel and see nothing that comes close to it in the new offerings so far. What is the chance that we can get it back?

As a subscriber to XM for many years (and a dual subscriber to Sirius and XM for a couple) I was surprised by the channel changes this morning. I had expected the change but thought there might be some advance notice. My biggest fear was that through the merger The Loft would be gone. I was very happy to see it still there along with Coffee House and Spectrum. Hope they all continue to co-exist. Mike (Loft) is just a great programmer and cares a lot about music. I rely on The Loft to guide my new music purchases. Through the years I always perceived XM to be more for folks who are serious about music and always found Sirius to be too repetitive. I hope the XM culture is lot overcome by the Sirius crowd.

As someone said, Sirius music is good for people who listen during a short car ride or for a few minutes at home. I listen for hours at work and short playlists aren't going to work too well. I've been a subscriber to both and I rarely will ever listen to music on Sirius. Sirius has great sports talk and political talk but musically lacks. My two favorite stations were replaced. The Boneyard will be back but Squizz is now Octane. I have to admit this could be alot worse. The pluses I have noticed thus far, they removed Jason Ellis from Octane. Thank god! This guy babbles about nothing before and during the start of the song. Probably one of the most annoying DJ's ever. That is a big plus he if off the channel. Covino is annoying too but nowhere near to the extent of Jason Ellis. Kayla and Bohdi are alright. Grant Random is pretty good. For someone who doesn't really like rambling DJ's I can live with this line up on Octane. I read on the Octane webpage that it mentions deeper tracks. I hope that is true. They really have toned down the talking over the music I noticed. Please keep that up. Really is too early to tell if the service will be worth or have gone straight to hell. Time will tell. This merged line up doesn't help me at all though because if I choose to remain a subscriber I still need two radios. One for MLB Home Plate and the other for Sirius Patriot. America Right really lacks in the morning and midday on XM. If they combined the music line ups, why not combine the whole line up? Hopefully they do that soon so I could drop one of these subscriptions.

So far good - some of the channels tend to overlap a little more than I recall they did previously. Belinda Carlise/Go-Gos on 1st Wave? I guess, but....

Also, having a little problem with the nomenclature - XM Cafe becomes "Spectrum" - but to make sure we have enough coffee, there is a new "Coffeehouse" which apparently serves just a little bit more caffiene than the "Loft" which is limitted to decaf?

I guess this is why I can't tell too much of a difference between Kona and Sumatra...

I think the only thing that is kind of anoying is they should have unified the channel numbers for the music between services. hearing sirius channel 39 and xm channel 30 is kind of anoying.
also what's up with hits 1? I didnt see it listed in the lineup but its still here and telling people to check out channel 39.

Wow. They took away some of my favorite channels. This stinks.

In 2003, in the height of the anti-terrorism campaign which banned anything that was foreign in America, XM Radio removed the only two World Music channels from his lineup and prevented Americans across the nation to enjoy this genre of music.

Five years later, the election of a new president illustrate that America's mentality is ready for a change and be re-opened to the world. The years of great musical darkness are hopefully over! Join this movement by allowing XM/Sirius subscribers to access music from Obama's ancestors - please allow existing CH98 and CH90 (World Music) to be available via XM/Sirius satellite feed, on everyone receivers!

BE BOLD - BE PART OF THE NEW AMERICA - BE PART OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER - BE PART OF THE CHANGE!

Support the movement to bring back World Music to XM/Sirius! Email programming@xmradio.com

I think Sirius XM should have only one subscription model.

I looked into upgrading to sirius/best of XM, but I would have to spend another $500 - $1000, because my custom installed stereo does not support the new package.

It's not worth it to me to get best of XM because all I really want is O&A.

I will say though that in spite of the complaints I have, I am driving my brothers car this week and he does not have sirius or xm and the regular radio is unbelievably un-listenable!!

I wish I could add XM best of, but I still really LOVE sirius!

The new XMU Sirius sucks. The DJs have no talent, have annoying voices and I am not impressed at all. I will give it a few more days but without Tobi and Billy, it just won't be the same.

"But, I’m excited about the new options and like the new tag line, “Everything worth listening to is on Sirius XM.”"

I can't believe someone actually said this. Many of the best songs out there are the ones you never get to hear, which is why I loved the deeper playlists on XM Radio. The tag line that "Everything worth listening to is on Sirius XM" is both factually incorrect and narrowminded. It shows me that the folks at Sirius don't get what XM fans really were looking for when they chose XM over Sirius.

When will they decide on just one name? I don't care if it's Sirius or XM. Just pick one please.

Thank goodness Deep Tracks remains. For me, the joy of that channel is hearing songs you missed -- or that you'd forgotten you'd ever heard. Having sampled Classic Vinyl this morning ... well, let's just say I could name that tune (each of the first five tunes, in point of fact) in four notes.

And, as a three-year XMer, I will say I'm glad to have the Grateful Dead channel and Underground Garage.

So far, I'm disappointed. I have about zero interest in any of the new channels and they went ahead and replaced a lot of my favorite XM channels with the Sirius equivalents. Most notably, Lucy has been replaced with Lithium. Now, it's only been a few hours, but I haven't been too impressed so far with its playlist. At the end of the day, I'm less happy with my XM subscription than I was before.

"Im not asking, Im demanding they put the 80s channel back to the way it was." -SyNiSt3r

Are ya? Who the hell do you think you are? You're one subscriber. Only thing you're in a position to demand is a cancellation & maybe a refund.

You've got better luck going into the DMV and demanding your license back after your 3 DUI.

Better yet, how about you go into the IRS building and DEMAND all your tax back.

Yeah, cricket..... CRICKET CRICKET.

Anybody notice that Hip Hop Nation was censored today? That was my favorite music channel because I could hear the songs the way that they were created, not with a bunch of substitute wording or pauses. I notice that The Heat (formally Hot Jamz 50) has gone the same route. I know Shade 45 is uncensored by I'm not a big fan because they don't play all the hits. what gives?

I am greatly disappointed that X-Country is gone. I feel betrayed. X-Country was the main reason I purchased my sattelite service. Outlaw Country is no comparision. The service is no longer worth what I am paying. I can't believe it!

Like I've always said....XM knows music; Sirius knows songs. Unfortunately, we lose the depth of XM for something slightly better than FM. Sad day for XM. I think the classic rock station I made for my Slacker has more depth than Classic Vinyl!

First the merger, then this....let's give sat radio 2 more years....

Tradegy - X country is gone. It was hands down the best, most authentic station on XM. I'm NOT happy about it. This outlaw country station sucks ass.

Can't believe we lost X Country. I may very well cancel my subscription.

XM with the best of Sirius is the way to go. You get basically everything that Sirius had with the XM sports packages thrown in. My theory is that in the next twelve months, Sirius will stop being Sirius and become XM. Look at the programming. If you go with Sirius and the Best of XM you don't get baseball. If you flip that, you get everything. Sirius is going away as a brand name. You'll be left with FM/AM/XM

My two cents.....

I am VERY disappointed that Xcountry is gone. Outlaw cannot compare to its rich and varied play list. Where am I going to hear the fantastic artists that Xcountry played? I have three subscriptions and will consider dropping all of them if this does not get better. The single artist stations that they offer are not at all interesting. Gone are the days I could just put on channel 12 and drive happily for hours. How can we get our favorites put back on the channels that are included? This is horrible.

you better fix hip-hop nation this edited shit has to go

why did the fcc say yes ?

I'm seriously pissed off that I no longer have a punk channel. It was bad enough when they temporarily turned it into a 24/7 AC/DC channel, but to now not have a dedicated punk rock channel is disheartening. I sent an email to Sirius when they put AC/DC on the punk channel and I never got a response.

I'm now sorry that the merger was allowed to go through. I'm paying an extra $4 to get Ron and Fez, but now I don't have my favorite music channel.

I think it's a bit too easy to dismiss them right now, for fans of say, Lucy. But most everybody will come around, and the threats of cancelled subscriptions will turn up empty.

I'm actually very happy. Sure, XMU is basically dead, and I only wish the best for Billy Zero & Tobi, But Alt Nation is better than Ethel, Radio 1 is better than U-Pop, and Jason Ellis & Faction are on XM!

It could have gone a lot worse, and it seems the service just might better for it.

RIP Boombox and now that this has been implemented, when will they move on to improving that god-awful Sirius Internet player?

at least hard attack is still intact ( just renamed liquid metal)..

same dj's and still programmed by jose!

It may still be too early to tell for some but I will tell you this. The choices I have on satellite radio are far superior to what I can get on terrestrial radio. I live in the NYC listening area and there are maybe 3-4 somewhat passable rock stations (when they play music and not commercials). On SiriusXM there are 21 defined rock stations and numerous other stations in other genres that play rock as well so it really is a no brainer. I originally bought Sirius for Howard Stern so I feel like I'm getting my money's worth just for that. Everything else is really, really good icing on top. The only thing I really want right now is MLB but it's not being offered to me yet so I guess I'll just have to wait.

I'm pretty happy so far. I liked the 40s on 4. It was a nice relaxing channel on XM, and I thought Sirius had too many channels that were too similar.

Good to see the Bridge coming back. It seems refreshed, I was getting a little tired of the same things. I'ts like I got a new radio all of a sudden.

I originally got XM for Fred as I graduated in '82 and I am a big fan of 80's alternative.

But after the first year are so Fred started to get to deep for me. I want to hear songs that remind me of the 'goof old days'. But when they started to play a bunch of song I have never heard of before it started to lose the reminiscent feeling.

A song you ave never heard before reminds me of nothing. I think the programmers at Fred knew this also, as the would replay 'Fred Essentials' song countdown over and over again. Knowing that people wanted to hear songs they know.

I love First Wave and I am very happy with the change so far.

First let me get this out of the way, I am an XM-er who has their sub because of O&A and Ron&Fez. So I probably would have hung around as long as they stayed.

My favorite channels were Squizz, Ethel, Lucy, Flight 26, Big Tracks, etc. So far my early thoughts are that the conversion of those channels is pretty good, so far. We had to all know that a lot of channels would get axed, but hopefully it's just the names that are gone and not the music.

I'm glad that some of the personalities I was used to on some of the channels I listened to are now on Sirius XM. (Bodhi, Grant Random, Sonny Fox are all still around).

My initial thoughts are (after about 10 hours of listening and surfing) that the merging of similar channels has been done pretty well. I'm satisfied so far and am cautiously opitmistic.

I'm sad to hear that a lot of people and their music preferences are getting shafted though. Latin music channels, Punk, should all be ones that should have carried over.

i still cant believe there is no "xm the rhyme" or "sirius backspin"...and i noticed more old school on shade 45 today....good to hear that leo g and supposedly subsoniq on hip-hop nation but no dj bee, rasta root, or any of the friday nite dj's on the rhyme make the jump....overall they screwed over the hip-hop fans as bad as any other genre...im wating to call cuz i know it will be a LONG wait!!!!

This stinks and I don't like it.

I'm pouring some beer on the curb for my dead homie XM. RIP. Lee Abram's believer for life!

I want the Boneyard back.

A two-month hiatus is ridiculous.

Im actually happy with the change. One of my fave channels got to stay and I only really lost one channel that I enjoyed. The XM channels are pretty good. Im just alittle confused about how the interoperable radios will work now. Is there any need for them?

today is the day back in 2001 that xm went nationwide im wearing my xm tshirt in honor of xm today :(

AS an XM'er I'm likin' some of the new channels.
I will miss The Rhyme and Chrome but now I will probably that music on the 70's and 80's,90's channel.

I prefer Raw dog comedy ( I was so sick of hearing Dane Cook), I like the Foxxhole and other new channels so I think I made out pretty good.

They have room for 18 rock channels but not one disco channel on either service!! Sheesh!!

Only thing I am pissed about is the fact that I own a Stiletto 100 and I can almost promise everyone we will never see an update to our device with updated channel logos and voice. Other than that, I like what I hear so far.

I really thought the merger would give us more choices not less.

Big mistake and very disappointing. Lost several channels that I like. buzzsaw, left of center, etc.

I had XM years ago, cancelled it, because I didn't listen that much or think the lineup was very good. got sirius when howard joined and thought the music channel choices were a little better. Now many of the good music channels are gone. Why eliminate things that are not redundant? For instance they got rid of old skool hip hop, on sirius and there is nothing that has a similar format now. They got rid of Buzzsaw, and there is no classic hard rock now.

I don't really care about single artist channels or sports radio.

Sirius did away with all my favorite music stations: Punk, Backspin, Boombox, and Universo Latino. The alternatives they offer to listeners on their website are laughable: Blink-182 on Faction does not qualify as Punk, I have not heard one single track on Alt-Nation that ever played on Boombox, there is no Rock en Espanol that can be heard on the new Caliente, and I think Shade 45 actually plays more old school rap than Hip-Hop Nation. Don't even get me started on The Loft being considered an alternative to Disorder. Sirius shows no respect to music lovers by sending them off to stations where their favorite music is not being played. I have an alternative to Sirius: Internet radio and an iPod. My subscription will be cancelled.

What the hell happened to my salsa how can you give us one lousy channel and expect that all latin music is the same. are you guys idiots or what... latin pop rock and maybe a bit of salsa thrown in. How insulting to the salseros and the whole spanish population in general.... I will be cancelling my five year subscription and will be popping in my cds....... to much to pay a year for one lousy spanish channel.

I guess they Bullshitted us about XM 80 The Move coming back huh! No House Music and No Old School Hip Hop. I switched from Sirius to XM because of the House Music.

Here's a petition I found online. Not sure how much good its going to do, but its a start.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveSatelliteMusic

XM you will be missed… The good times…. Bigs ups to those diverse DJ’s from
B-More, DC, NYC, You fellas kept me up to date! Now I will be lost in the game!
Awwww DJ Exclusive…. What a loss….

Anyhow, I am extremely irate!! This was the worst change in history! Urban and Plush lounge fan I must say. Currently, a subscriber through Direct TV which I be downgrading my package in the next hour! I may switch to cable!! Gee!!! Hip Hop nation! What is this garbage? Where is the reggae channel? No diversity!
How in the world could Corp remove these channels? Poor management once again.

XM Chill
XM Beyond Jazz
XM The Move
XM RAW
XM The City ***
XM Rhyme
XM Suite 62

Good idea… Yea right! Remove 3 urban channels and have one! Where is the diversity?
Underground Hip Hop, Classic Hip Hop, Old school Hip Hop.

Well Sirius just lost me as a client. No words for the stock price!!! ;-(

DJ unKnown

I am disappointed with the line up. I use my XM subscription online all the time and now they have taken away CineMagic from the channels available...this agrivates me. I also liked listening to channel 77 on XM, which was Audio Visions, now it is not even on the radio anymore. Another is Sonic Theater. It seems to me like they are taking away all the good stations and leaving the ones that really suck!

No old school rap? BRING BACK XM 65!!!!!

Sirius XM.... FAIL!

Bunch of whiners here.

I'm very pleased overall. I have a long commute and was looking forward listening to Good Morning America for the first time today. But, much to my dismay, all I got out of Sirius XM Stars was some woman doing fake paranormal cold readings. Where's my GMA? Other than that, I like what I hear.

Having a paid subscription to XM and getting Sirius free in my car I can honestly say that I liked the XM programming better than the dog's.

Favorite XM channels
1- The Virus (O&A)
2- Lucy
3- The Rhyme

Favorite Sirius channels
1- Boombox
2- Backspin

Now I’m just one person with their own unique music tastes (like many others) but the merger has completely wiped out whole genres of music.

- Old school rap/hip hop = gone
- Vintage dance/disco = gone
- Electronic/rock remixes = gone
And I’m sure the list goes on,

C'mon Sirius XM, the appeal for satellite radio was to offer something for everyone, even if it was one or two channels people could find a niche that they liked and not have to deal with annoying commercials.

I can understand the reasoning to merge overlapping channels (decades) but to eliminate unique music genres is beyond me.

And I agree it's nice to have dedicated "artist of the month" channels a la Coldplay, Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Metallica, AC/DC but please let's limit these to MONTHLY features!
Sure some people will love the "All Elvis, All the Time" or Grateful Dead 24/7, but I'm sure a lot MORE people would appreciate these exclusive channels for other artists/bands on a rotating basis.

In some cases certain genres have doubled their amount of channels (Rock and Pop). Now I love Rock'n'Roll as much as the next guy but the amount of overlap of music that I hear on these channels is astonishing.
I can say this because I’ve had the same songs pop up on my INNO tuneselect multiple times within the span of an hour.

All this has to be addressed,

Let's hope our suggestions for an improved satellite radio will be taken into consideration and changes are made so that there truly is something for everybody.

Hopefully, some of the execs still read Orbitcast. If not, in all seriousness, it may be worth some well-thought emails to Mr. Zellner. I've actually found him pretty responsive and to be a good guy. Same with Jon Anthony on the country front. Not familiar with any of the other programmers since they're from Sirius...But for those of us who want our X Country back, maybe we just need to keep hitting up Jon Zellner and Jon Anthony.

I'm interested to hear the DJ's on 46 and 49 today...Those are two channels that don't really need them since it's all familiar music, but let's see how bad they are.

Glad to see XM finally put up the new channel guide. I noticed Alt Nation and Octane have no DJ schedule listed, so did everyone on both the XM side and the Sirius side get let go from both channels, or have they just not worked out airshifts yet?

I was glad to see that Roadhouse appears to be keeping Bill Anderson's Visits with the Legends and Outlaw is adding Marty Stewart's American Odyssey.

To the person who mentioned Smokestack, a great show, it wasn't listed anywhere...So, we lose it and road calls with X Country switching to Outlaw. It appears Saturday nights we get Shooter Jennings Electric Rodeo (sounds like it could be kinda cool) and some show hosted by Steve Earle. Two of my favorite artists; now let's see if they can do radio.

I find it interesting that, of the channels I looked at, the country stations and Deep Tracks have slightly different on-air lineups on the weekends, but most of the rock stations that do have DJ's have the same ones seven days a week...Ah, the wonders of voice tracking.

I also noticed no DJ's listed anymore for Liquid Metal; considering both XMLM and Hard Attack had on-air staffs, I'm surprised they didn't keep one staff, or some of each or something. Again, maybe they're there but the site hasn't been updated.

Also, I see the play-by-play schedule hasn't been updated when you go to xmradio.com/nfl; still shows 105 as NFL radio, but with nothing on right now. Nice.

Not trying to complain; I guess what I'm saying is they've known this was coming...All of this should have been emailed to subscribers days ago, and should've been ready to hit the website in advance of the changes. Very badly handled. It'll be interesting to see if the company does in fact lose subs over the changes.

XM has just lost a CINEMAGIC CUSTOMER.

YOU DO NOT PULL PROGRAMS LIKE THAT! FOR 6 WEEKS... 95% I LISTENED TO 27 AND NOW ZIP!!!

Very disappointed that the king of boring, Jonathan Schwartz, has been retained and has gone to Siriusly Sinatra. Oh well, at least XM Pops seems to be intact and Escape has survived. So, for me, status quo.

The Sirius music stations were 100x better than the XM stations - we're the ones that are getting screwed with your crappy playlists. Bring back Punk Channel & BackSpin!!!! Outlaw Country > X Country.

I hate the new line up and the fact that XM didn't bother to tell me about it before it happened. Since XM was always slanted toward east coast times for show line ups, I was only able to catch up to the Dylan, Tom Petty and Marty Stuart shows on XM 2's all day replays. Now those are gone and if I want to listen to Bob Dylan they expect me to tune in at 9am or 5pm on work days. I'm seriously thinking of ditching the whole mess. Why pay for a clone of bad FM radio?

Baba Booey!!!! Baba Booey!!!! Baba Booey!!!!

For someone who's new to Raw Dog.....when is Jim Breuer's show on?

I'm happy Subsoniq is on Hip Hop Nation, but unhappy that I've been flipping thru ALL 3 urban channels and have heard one classic song today... "Nuthin but a G Thing"... Ive been listening for a good 3.5 hours today...

So my initial thoughts are "I hope HHN starts to play more Hip Hop... Sorry, but Little Wayne/G-Unit isn't it...

Starting Monday there won't be Maxim Radio on Sirius 108. It will be called "Sirius Stars Too", and the only show remaining from Maxim will be Covino and Rich. Jay Thomas and Vinnie Politan will also be on the channel, and it will also be on XM 39.

It would appear Sirius is done with me. First they drop the PUNK channel (Faction is NOT an acceptable alternative, I'm not 15) and today Disorder was dropped too.

Apparently Sirius has no interest in keeping the "fringe" music fans as customers. We were the original Sirius/XM listeners; people who were willing to pay money to hear something different from what was available on the radio. I purchased a Lifetime sub because of Disorder, Left of Center Underground Garage & Stern and I was thrilled when they added a pure Punk channel. I don't think I'll be continuing to pay for my additional radio once my current pre-payed period is up.

I'm down to 4 presets now, the Stern channels, Underground Garage and XMU (which seems to still be Left of Center.) If Stern doesn't renew his contract I'll rarely be listening to Sirius any longer.

It may be time for me to investigate Slacker Internet radio more seriously...

I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the change. That main station I listened to on Sirius was The Beat and BPM is no where near what The Beat is(at least to me and from what I've read on here others agree). I don't like the DJ on there either, Skyy. He talks WAY to long. He needs to learn to shut up and play the music. I looked on the BPM page on Sirius and they took away the DJ's I liked as well. I miss The Beat... :(

I own stocks in this company but unfortunately the executives in this company have ruined this company to penny stocks. It is unfortunate but I don't think this company will survive. Unfortunately, I will lose my money. I think the technology is cool but these executives spent a lot of money instead of thinking of turning a profit. I should have sold my shares a long time ago. Thank you, Mr Mel Karmazin.

I live in Canada and the only thing that I feel that I am being disadvantaged over my american subs is that I wisH that I would have access to the Best of Sirius packege here in the great white north. I and a bunch of my fellow subscriber in Canada would agree with me on this and I wish that the parent company would pressure the Canadian arms of XM, Siriius to offer the combined package. But as far as what i read it looks like a good package overall. But wish I had access to MY nascar Programming on my XM receiver.

I am disappointed and amazed that XM dropped Beyond Jazz. This was a great channel that provided a brilliant cross-section of the best modern jazz out there now. I listened to this station a lot, and was made aware of quite a number of jazz artists I had not heard before.

Jazz is our true American art form, one brought to us by African-Americans, and is important to our country and the world artistically and culturally. The U.S. has just elected its first African-American president, and that gives me a great deal of hope, but then corporations such as XM/Sirius make moves like this, and it takes a little bit of that hope away again.

They have also dumped XM Café, another station I listened to that provided new and interesting music. On the other hand, we now have access to NASCAR races on the radio, Martha Stewart, and not one but 2 Howard Stern channels available-wow. I had always viewed XM as an ALTERNATIVE to the mainstream radio and cable music channels, but it’s clear that’s now not the case.

Thanks to XM/Sirius for doing their part in helping to lower the collective intelligence of this country. I am canceling my account with XM.

I echo the thoughts of some here in the Hip Hop genre. You have classic rock, classic R&B, classic country, classic pop but no classic Hip Hop? It's not like Hip Hop is new, it's been around nearly 30 years. For SXM to kill off Backspin and the Rhyme in one swoop is a programming mis-step. Hopefully, someone will think this one through and bring one of them back.

As someone said, Sirius music is good for people who listen during a short car ride or for a few minutes at home. I listen for hours at work and short playlists aren't going to work too well. I've been a subscriber to both and I rarely will ever listen to music on Sirius. Sirius has great sports talk and political talk but musically lacks. My two favorite stations were replaced. The Boneyard will be back but Squizz is now Octane. I have to admit this could be alot worse. The pluses I have noticed thus far, they removed Jason Ellis from Octane. Thank god! This guy babbles about nothing before and during the start of the song. Probably one of the most annoying DJ's ever. That is a big plus he if off the channel. Covino is annoying too but nowhere near to the extent of Jason Ellis. Kayla and Bohdi are alright. Grant Random is pretty good. For someone who doesn't really like rambling DJ's I can live with this line up on Octane. I read on the Octane webpage that it mentions deeper tracks. I hope that is true. They really have toned down the talking over the music I noticed. Please keep that up. Really is too early to tell if the service will be worth or have gone straight to hell. Time will tell. This merged line up doesn't help me at all though because if I choose to remain a subscriber I still need two radios. One for MLB Home Plate and the other for Sirius Patriot. America Right really lacks in the morning and midday on XM. If they combined the music line ups, why not combine the whole line up? Hopefully they do that soon so I could drop one of these subscriptions.

Very disappointed that our local djs on XMU are gone. The morning guy on “Sirius XMU” blows! The station names on Sirius are uncreative, not to mention XM is a much better name than Sirius!(e.g. AM, FM, XM…duh!)

The programming has incorporated the best of both worlds in many instances, but 2 Canadian pop stations as well as switching The Verge to Canadian emerging artists!?! C’mon!

I’m not happy with the apparent takeover of XM, but it’s better than commercials. In a couple years when streaming Internet to our vehicles is made easier via our phone or directly, then I’ll get rid of it. But in the meantime, I’ll pay for it.

One of the GREAT things about XM's lineup was it's country channels, far less cliched then Sirius'. Willies Place has totally turned to crap in one day!!! Willie's Place was previously a unique channel with a strong Texas and Western Swing playlist, now it is worse then the ridiculouly bad Accuradio "Classic Country" offering, which is BTW FREE! The rest of Xm's country lineup has been replaced by incredibly lame Sirius alternatives who's programming is reminicent of low power a.m. local classic country stations, cliche ridden with miniscule and predictable playlists. This is the END of Satellite radio as we knew it, the charm and uniquness is gone. I subsribe to both and will be cancelling both.

HOW CAN THEY ELIMATED ALL THE OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP STATIONS.. WHAT A CROCK!!!

My hat is off to all my brothers and sisters of the X Country faith. Everywhere I have read today, we are a bunch of pissed off folks.

I have bounced back & forth today from Outlaw & Buffett. Those 2 play some of what we are missing. But would only add up to a drop in a bucket of what we are missing.

Yes I sent some e-mails, signed petitions, and canceled 4 of my 8 XM subs.

Skoal.

Too much Country music.

These comments are hilarious.
Ever heard "Don't judge a book by its cover"?
A channel that takes Sirius name, in many cases, is not an XM channel being replaced, simply renamed. If you spent the time to actually listen, you might notice that many of these channels are actually the XM channel replacing the Sirius channel, but keeping the more marketable Sirius channel name. Who the hell knows what a Squizz is? Well guess what, Squizz isn't gone. Listen to Octane. You'd think you would actually listen before spurting all of these unjustly irate comments. for the fans of rock and pop, you XMers made out better than the Sirius subs, whether you know it or not.

WHAT THE HELL DOES "EVERYTHING WORTH LISTENING TO IS NOW ON...." MEAN? THAT BETTER BE REPHRASED ASAP!!

I thought at first that I might need a couple of days to figure out the difference between the channels, but I was wrong. I have heard the same Snow Patrol song three times on The Spectrum, channel 45 I think.

And I heard the same song on Flight 26, errr, I mean The Pulse. Its not as if SXM doesn't know how to put decent playlists together that aren't going to piss people off.

Also I have noticed that the sound quality on SXM is a lot worse. Yesterday when it was XM my stereo made nice deep bass on the same channels that I listen to today, of course there not the same channels any more. Today the sound is flat and I have to turn up the bass and treble on my stereo to make it sound decent. I had to do the same thing in my car because the music sounded like bad AM playback.

One channel that almost sounds the same is XM Classics 110, or Symphony Hall, what ever channel number is it. Martin Goldsmith is still on there and sounds like they are playing the same great music.

Backspin was my favorite. I almost listened to it exclusively and now it is gone. Damn you Sirius. What's the deal keeping The "Soccer Mom" Pulse around and ditching Backspin? Probably won't renew when my contract is up now that I have to listen to the repetitive XM crap on the decade stations. I want my Big 80's with the original MTV VJ's.

i more or less like the changes. i'm really bummed out by the loss of any type of old school hip hop. i got howard, i got o&a, i ain't got no old school yo. they dropped the ball on us 30 somethings that every now and then like to relive our old wigger days, wack!

I'm utterly disgusted. I got in my car this morning and turned on my radio only to discover that all of my favorite channels weren't working. After selecting a few more channels, my radio just reported that they were offline. Then I started seeing strange station titles. I knew something was horribly wrong.

I'm afraid that this is the ultimate demise of XM and satellite radio as we know it. When a friend and I signed up for XM radio a number of years ago, we signed up for it instead of Sirius for a reason. Simply put, the Sirius technology always sucked, from the very beginning up until now. Their channel lineup was crap, the quality was crap, and the crap they played was crap. So why didn't someone just say ENOUGH with the crap and dig them a hole and shove them in it?

XM stock took a serious plunge when this whole merger started to take light, and it looks like things are only aimed to get worse. I'm pissed about all this, and I know a bunch of other people are as well as the number of negative comments here are enough justice. I didn't sign up for Sirius, and I never wanted Sirius. But when I got in my car this morning, I knew things had changed for the worse.

I don't know what it's going to take, but I guess at the end of the day it's going to be what it is. I just can't believe that they pretty much stuck it to everyone in Washington DC and pretty much said "You're out of a job. Have a nice life".

Have a nice life, Sirius.

X Country replaced by Outlaw Country ????
are you kidding !!! The same music is on Willie's Place. Sirius has no clue when it comes to music programing. BRING BACK X COUNTRY !

Everything Sirius touches turns to crap.
I'm giving up on satellite and moving to MP3.

That was the last straw.

now that they are one will they use the larger play list of xm on both services? i dont' see why not since they've got all of this music

I'm not as irritated as I thought I would be after the first day of listening. However, I did have some issues listening online. BBC Radio 1 wasn't on XMRO all day. I got The System anytime I clicked on 29. I like the fact that UPop is still available online. Faction is an interesting station when they actually play music; however, the online feed sounded like an FM station that was encountering severe interference.

Radio Margaritaville is what an artist-focused channel should be. I'm a big Buffett fan, but I love that they play a wide-variety of music to encompass his influences and favorites.

I like Alt Nation and Octane. Very happy that BPM is still there. I'm not fond of Lithium (playlist is way too limited and I'm really going to miss the Lucy promos), Sirius XM U (the music is fine, but the talent cannot compare to Billy Zero and Tobi), or 1st Wave (far too poppy). Lithium gave me a little hope when I heard For Squirrels "The Mighty K.C." on the way home. My favorite station is XM Canada-owned The Verge, so I'm glad that was only relocated.

Where can you find artist confidential these days now that XMX is gone?

as long as we have freedom of speech for $12 ill never cancel my service!
let freedom ring and let it be rung by a stripper 1/9/06
the real black fist

X Country replaced by Outlaw Country ????
are you kidding !!! The same music is on Willie's Place. Sirius has no clue when it comes to music programing. BRING BACK X COUNTRY !

Everything Sirius touches turns to crap.
I'm giving up on satellite and moving to MP3.

That was the last straw.

I can't stand the changes too! I miss all the DJ's on the decade channels and I think it's ridiculous that Sirius Disorder is gone. I also miss the Strobe. I hope Sirius dumps all those artist-centered stations too. They are very alienating for people who don't listen to Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Grateful Dead, and Bruce Springstein.

I won't cancel my subscription because anything is better than terrestrial radio. However, I am disappointed. I'll give them credit for keeping the Underground Garage though.

i swear sirius/xm is ran by a bunch of donkey's.....how can you ditch old school hip-hop on both companies and give us more mainstream bullshit...i can hear all that shit on fm radio....then they give us the xm dj's who played progressive hip-hop on the rhyme and put them on hip-hop nation??????....what about the older heads who grew up on hip-hop????? what about us????? but rock has a shit load of channels...like the other guy said hip-hop has been here for a long time....just like clasic rock!!!!

I'm not sure what all the griping is about. I've had both Sirius and XM for quite some time. I felt all along that Sirius was much better. Now that my GM vehicle with factory installed XM is much closer to the Sirius I enjoy at home, I couldn't be happier.

Been waiting for this day for over a year and a half. Like several other posters, switched to XM because of factory install in GM product. Was great to hear Sirius sounds again like 'The Pulse' and 'Classic Rewind'. Unfortunately, I'm a Canadian subscriber where "Best Of" offers don't apply - so no Howard Stern for me yet but hoping the companies licensed to distribute the signal up north will merge so I can enjoy the same service offers as Americans. Until then, love the merged stations, and great to have some my favorite DJs back, like those on 80s on 8 (previously Big 80s).

On a business perspective, it only makes sense for the newly merged Sirius XM to consolidate many of the duplicate stations, rather then running two of almost identically themed stations running on separate companies - saves money, bandwidth, the need for two sets of DJs, and delivers an expanded music library. Also, will allow more leverage to attract star/guest DJs, live acts, exclusives, debuts - so for those who are thinking of cancelling you're subscription, just wait until the growing pains have eased; I think we as dedicated listeners will soon benefit from a merged company with an even larger combined subscriber base and greater influence in the music industry.

Although I lost some of my favorites today too, like 'The Beat' on Sirius among others, I applaud the merged channel lineups and look forward to the next phase of the new Sirius XM (whatever that may be?)

Sinead O'Connor even attempting to be techno???(Sirius's "Area" vs XM's "The System") Area is nowhere NEAR the quality of "The System" Plain pittiful. "Area" is definately "Techno Lite"

Earth Wind, & Fire,5th Diminsion even being associated with MoTown Soul?? (Sirius's Soul Town Vs.XM's "Soul Street") I happen to like those groups but MoTown they ain't.In one hours time, I didn't hear one Aretha Franklin,Marvin Gaye,Al Green,Curtis Mayfield,Spinners,Temptations,etc. Basically a bunch of groups I have NEVER heard of.

Chatty DJ's talking about football on Classic Rock stations?? There's an independant station in Charlotte,NC that is WAY better than some of what I heard today as far as DJ'ing goes.

What are those Sirius programmers thinking? Are they on drugs? Are are they really that ignorant of genre music?? Where did they get these people?

Is this what Sirius subscribers accepted for programming for all these years?

If they can't do any better than this,Sirius/XM deserves to fail. I've been a subscriber since 2002 but accepting substandard product is something I can't go along with. I'm still getting "The System" on DirecTV but that's not much help in the car or office.

This is very bad. Of my favorite channels, Fine Tuning and my electronica station are gone, Cinemagic and Boneyard are on hiatus (and likely to vanish every holiday or for every one act promo that comes along), the classical station is no longer HD 5.1, and Audiovisons and Squizz are replaced/changed. Only Sur La Route and The Message survived intact. I don't see how Cinemagic will last on an intermittent basis -- that can't be good for keeping an audience. For me, Cinemagic is the station that will determine whether I stay or not.

Disorder and X Country are gone !?????? I wish Mel were gone too !

My biggest complaint really has nothing to do with the changes because Sirius was always like that, THERE ARE WAY TO MANY ROCK CHANNELS! Why does Rock always have the majority of the channels?

At first glance, I am pretty pleased with the new station listings. Sirius and XM combined the best channels from both networks for the most part. From what I can tell, more of the Sirius stations survived, which may cause XM listeners some frustration and disatisfaction.

I noticed that XM's PDF format of the channel listings still has not been updated on their website. The PDF download lists the channels as of "October 26, 2008." If you want a printable channel guide you need to download and print from this site.

I just turned on my receiver this evening and foudn out about the line-up changes ... thanks for the advance notice.

The one station I bought XM for was Chrome and now they're trying to pass on Channels 7 or 64 (The Groove) as alternatives ... neither of which play Classic Disco.

The kicker?

When I first tuned into Channel XM83 I was immediately taken to Channel CM 149 The FOXXHOLE which is an EXPLICIT LANGUAGE station ... and I can testify that they were saying things that were very sexually explicit ...

I called XM and they were pretty non-chalant about it ....

I think it's time to ditch XM

True,there are a lot of rocks channels. And maybe we should look into whether AgentTom is really AgentMel. I love Sirius! Couldn't be happier! yay! lol

Wow. What to say? Last night I was wondering why 2 of my favorite DJ's on XM RAW were crying. And on XM65 (the Rhyme) they were talking about the end. Didn't pay too much attention, until this morning. Get in my car about to turn on Leo G, and who do I hear? SHADE45, playing bubble gum stuff you hear on the radio. I have had XM for 4 years mainly for 2 channels 65 and 66. Trying to cancel my sub right now. I cannot believe they didn't even ASK the subscribers what we liked and didn't like.... unbelievable.

RIP 65 & 66. Maybe Sirius will get SERIOUS and listen to their NEW subscribers.

maybe the NAB GUY over the summer was right..."merge monopoly" i hated him then but now that guy deserves a round of drinks....

So, they messed up XM Chill and others. Guess what - WE can send emails to them requesting more x,y and z and over time make it more like the old XM Chill.

First the Flow now the City and the Rythmn. No good Hip Hop station I can listen to at work. I am very disappointed. -

As a dedicated Disorder listener I am very disappointed. I haven't heard intelligent programming like that since the heyday of FM. It is the reason I installed Sirius in my car. Meg, Vin, David & Ghosty are true professionals who knew their stuff. I'll miss 'em. But apparently the "suits" have taken over like they did FM. I install A/V so I got to hear Sirius & XM on my customer's systems. Sirius programming did it for me. Now it will be iPod in the car and Paradise Radio & Pandora over the internet at home.

where is the old school hip-hop!?!?!?!?

I am pissed.
I am seriously considering ending my subscription.
I kept it for The Virus (202) and Beyond Jazz. Now that Beyond Jazz is gone I pretty sure I am cancelling. I can get everything else somewhere online. Jackass corporation.

I will miss The Beat. Hopefully BPM tanks and we get it back.

What's the actual point of having 2 subscriptions now?

Really surprising that Lithium, which was a cheap knockoff of Lucy, stays but the original dies. Lithium feels so sterile, and is hit or miss all the time. Something doesn't feel right when you play Nirvana then Kid Rock. Creed is not grunge...it's crap. XM Saturday Night ruled. It will be missed. If we are going to be stuck with Lithium, how about bringing back the awesome bumpers from Lucy?

Thank God First Wave stayed! I cant stand Lucy and Fred on XM. I have had Sirius for 5 years now, and I cant stand listening to XM. For those of you who liked Fred/Lucy...........First Wave is the best channel on Sirius for those who like real 80's alternative music. Depeche Mode, Morrisey, The Cure, Erasure, New Order,OMD, INXS, Smiths, Thompson Twins, the best 80's bands are all here. Give it a chance, you will love it! NO Huey Louis and the News here.......

I was a 20 year Howard Stern listener but ended up buying XM because 1. when his change to Sirius occured, the radios were so hard to purchase and 2. XM had better music and the better choice of radios. I got a little one for $10! But hey it works and fits in my car.

NYC radio stinks. It's beyond bad. Also some of my friends are singers and The Loft plays their music. So I am happy the Loft is still with us. There is an acoustic rock venue in NYC called The Living Room and the Loft has a program called From The Living Room to The Loft which plays live concerts from there.

I love Ron and Fez and enjoy O&A also. Anyone catch Ron and Fez on election night? They did an evening show that night.

I'm sad to hear the Disorder channel is gone because I wanted to hear Larry Kirwan.

Thanks Nick for your post above explaining what happened to the Verge.

Anyone else having trouble logging in to XM online at home and listening? I haven't been able to get it to work since the weekend. At work, it's blocked so I can't even try it here. Everything else is fine on my pc so I think it's an XM problem.

This article in the Chicago Tribune explains what is gone from each service

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/11/xm-radio-sirius.html

Suffice it to say, for XM subscribers at least:
11-12-08, the day SATRAD died.......

This is total SHIT!!! Getting the update while going to work. Getting an email 5 hours later. Finding my favorites changed or GONE. I have only ONE channel that is like it was yesterday. Got Sirius because of the superior programming, minus the traffic and weather channels. Now I am considering canceling my service. If I wanted XM I would have gotten it.
This is total SHIT!!!!!!

BPM and AREA are a similar genre. BOOMBOX was completely different. I don't understand this decision. If your going to be deleting stations why remove BOOMBOX? This is a primary market among youth. That was the one station I was hoping for as an XM subscriber. There is a reason BBC has so much of this on their stations.

Losing RHYME is retarded. It's the same problem. SHADY and HIPHOPNATION are both current hiphop stations. I can turn on the radio and listen to the same garbage. Wouldn't it make since to combine them and have an Old School channel as well? Rock has 20 stations .. we can't get two different hiphop stations?

I'm going to be bummed if the talk about Chill is true. XMChill was perfect.

GOOD NEWS!!! Each platform has it's own trucking channel!!! Glad they didn't combine that riveting entertainment!!!

I have been looking somewhere to vent all day about my XM radio. Thank you Orbitcast. One thing I thought satellite brought to the table was programming not readily available over the air and reading these comments would indicate they lost their mission statement. My taste is different than most of you. Cinemagic's The Big Score was like a double latte for me every morning. I have been going through withdrawal all day. I switched to the new Broadway station for awhile but I couldn't concentrate on work with some screaming queen announcer yelling at me. I tried what was listed as the classical and classical pops stations but despite what my computer said, they were playing some nauseating easy listening crap. I don't know what to think but if it remains as unentertaining and messed up as today, I will have to change satellite radio from the necessary to discretionary spending column.

Ryan:

I think it's a little early to judge by just one days worth of listening, but I'll give it a shot:

Overall, I'm disappointed at a lot of the changes, but I will wait a few weeks before making a final decision to stay with SDARS.

To me, having a choice between services was the way to go, and I knew that most of these channels wouldn't "merge" well. Many stations are still full-XM or full-SIRI with maybe a name change.

Anyways, here are my thoughts as a dual-sub on the changes:

First, the Good:
1) The decades channels (with 1 exception) remain very well programmed and they were smart enough to keep Phelps and Motormouth on the 60's and keep Brucie on the 50's.
2) The merged Classic Vinyl is better than I expected.
3) Most of the Jazz channels remained (1 exception)
4) Underground Garage didn't get the axe.

The Bad and Ugly:
1) FRED is gone! My favorite SDARS channel wasn't merged, it is the inferior 1st Wave. I'm sorry, but Bachman and Lambert were kings of 70's and 80's alternative knowledge and it showed in their playstyle of the channel. It was called "alternative" music for a reason, a name that has lost all meaning in today's music.
First Wave pales in comparison to that gem. This was a terrible move by the company.
2) Chill: What on Earth's name were they thinking with this one? XM's Chill had it right, Sirius doesn't seem to have a clue what Chill music is. A total abomination.
3) Beyond Jazz is gone. A classic gem that is nearly impossible to find, even on internet radio stations.
4) X-Country gone! Let me tell you that I have never been much of a Country music channel, but this channel was fantastic and unique....and now it's gone!
5) No more Boombox, or classic rap. I only enjoyed old-school rap (newer stuff is plain garbage and predictable).
6) No Disco channel. Although I'm not much of a disco fan, my mother was, and she is very upset1

Yes, I know I seem more negative than positive, because to me, choices were taken away. This is the bad part about mergers.

I will give it a few weeks of listening to see if anything level out or changes before I decide to cancel my XM and Sirius subs.

If you hate the new channels so much, then CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION! Go back to FM and the iPod and be my guest. I listen to FM radio at work, and its even worse than when I stopped listening a few years back. See, what I think is, you guys don't want to cancel, because then you won't have something to complain on a message board about.

I bought XM for baseball....i'll be very honest. The music channels were good for the most part, I did like the additional choices of music. Plus, the talk stations and cable news channels sold me too.

I love the merger and i'm glad both companies merged. I hated how Sirius had the NFL and I was stuck listening to FOX Sports Radio to get the score from the Packers games, now I can actually listen to the games. I could care less about losing channels....all in all, its the same format with a different name and slightly different DJ's. I actually have a life, so I could really care less about someone behind a microphone who talks in between songs for a living. Sorry to be so harsh, but that's the way it is.

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For those of you complaining about the timing of the lineup unveiling what would a day, week or month done? So you found out "5 hours" before it launched... who cares? What would a week or month have done? Were you going to protest in NY? Comment on your likes/dislikes of the new offerings, not the release date of the lineup.

I'll have to get used to it. I'll miss Fine Tuning. It seems like they're some good Alternative Rock stations now. We'll see.

Justin

Many of you rushing to cancel your subs today will be reactivating within 6 months. After listening to dreadful terrestrial radio and the broken record repeats of your Ipods, you will succumb to an offer to come back to satellite. Personally, I am very pleased with the changes. I started out with XM many years ago, but switched to Sirius because of what I perceived as better music programming. Then my wife and I both got new cars with factory XM and decided to go with it and not bother with an add-on Sirius receiver. XM has been rather bland and at times I considered just giving it up. But now with the Sirius XM merger, I get more of what I loved about Sirius. Way to go Mel, you finally did something I can cheer about -- and likely just maintained a subscriber for a long time to come.

Sirius Blues 74 was my constant companion. Me and some gal in Wyoming may have been the only listeners, but I grew attached to the DJs and shows, like JB, Early Times, a daily cup o' Joe Bonamassa, and Shemekia Copeland. Have they just been dumped? It would've been nice to be informed of this. The swap to XM's Bluesville, cold turkey, leaves me on ice.

I like it

A LOT. There was a lot more content that I am into. I really enjoyed Spectrum and 1st Wave and Coffeehouse - and didn't lose anything that I liked, like the Loft. Didn't even have time to check out GD, Bruce, or lot of channels that I want to sample.

How do you like them apples?

I love this new lineup. Great stuff.

Not that anyone is going to read this but ill put my thoughts out there. Its honestly going to take a couple of weeks to get a true opinion on this but a few things really stick out. I dont listen to a whole lot of hip hop/rap but when I do I like to kick it old school. Is there any legitimate reason why they dont have an old school hip hop channel? I also think they should have kept XMX instead of pushing all the exclusive shows and stuff on deep tracks.

Also ive spent much of the day ,listening to Outlaw country and it is nothing compared to X country. They really arent even similar at all and X Country was awesome.

Ill try to reserve judgement but some of this makes no sense to me isnt XM generally accepted to be better on the music side with deeper more unique play lists? It seems like all the music channels I loved to listen to have been swapped out. I didnt listen to a lot of Lithium today but I loved Lucy just how it was.

One more thing is the whole XM + Sirius seems like bunk as well. Since they have combined the two services shouldnt EVERYTHING be available for the same price? Its one radio why should I have to pay extra for some of the content? Frustrating stuff Ill have to think long and hard about renewing my subscription.

I've been a Sirius subscriber for over a year. It seems most of the posters here are XM listeners.
I am glad "Left of Center" has survived as XMU. Not so happy that Christopher the Minister is gone though. I read he was originally schedule to depart Sirius XM on the Nov 14th, but can only guess that he left early due to the realignment.

The handling of this was just bad. I got in my car late last night found all the new channels, but the email didn't show up until this morning. Weak.

I am happy that Deep Tracks survived, sorry about Fine Tuning' demise. Sorry about GTM gone Sorry about XMX gone, do not like any of the Sirius stations, will give them another try before cancelling my 5 subscriptions.
I do not like my subscription money financing foul mouth "entertainers" especially the ones that cost up to $56M per year! If Sirius XM cannot get its financial act together it will vanish my mid 2009. When Sirius signed a contract to pay such amounts, did they calculate how many subscription it would take to pay for that one channel ? Maybe Sirius can petition the federal government for bailout money, to give handsome bonuses to the overpriced personalities that are causing it to lose money. Maybe they plan to double my subscription fees for that purpose. May be Best Buy has a new car stereo that is IPOD friendly? Wake up Sirius, before its too late. GM was at least smart enough to sell it to you and get money. I like satellite radio, but am outraged by the fools that have run the business section causing the outrages aired above and below.

Former SIRIUS user, switched to XM three years ago. We may have the same number of channels (or close to it) but it FEELS like we have less. Less choice, less diversity, same price.

I rely on satellite radio for music discovery. If I want to listen to Elvis, Springsteen, Buffett or the Grateful Dead all the time, I'd buy their stuff on iTunes and listen on my iPod.

No Cinemagic and Boneyard until January. No Classic Dance channel. Fewer soul, latin and dance channels, but hey, how's the sound quality guys?!?

Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful, Thankyou. I have been waiting for this for a long......................time. Could you please just give us the best of XM stations? But great move.

I am generally happy. I like the 80s channel. They seem to have kept the best of both. I like Classic Rewind.

I am/was sorry to see Lucy go. Lithium just doesn't compare. Very happy The Bridge will be back in January on both XM and Sirius.

Does anyone else notice that the sound quality of these new channels is much worse? It sounds worse than AM radio. After 5 years as a sub, I might actually cancel.

Meh. I'll give it a few weeks to really get emotional about it but so far the rock channels seem rather narrow. My iPhone has a broader playlist, especially when it comes to the 90's alternative music (Lithium is really disappointing).

HERE IS YOUR ANSWER HIP HOP FANS![Old School, Progressive, New, Reggae] Sirius is just like turning on radio. Why pay for it!!

All you need is internet access.

http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/audio/radio/

Enjoy,

Left of Center fans are wondering about the name change and whether the format will remain. Also, why The Minister left.

I have had XM for many years and was against the merger but for me the change is OK, no big deal, nothing to lose sleep over, get your panties in an uproar, although the decades really suck now (no Matt the Cat), but hey life goes on. I have not figured out why they butchered Chill the way they did so I will take that off my preset and it is beyond me why Fine Tuning was taken off, I am sure the 12 of us who listened to that channel are disappointed. Since I am paying for radio I like to have that odd channel here and there, that is why I like(d) XM over sirius. POTUS has changed, seems more like talk radio then an information channel. Now for the good news; I like the dog on the logo. My favorite channel "the Loft" is still on. What a wonderful channel! Old time radio is still there and I now have NPR. Some of you fear that the next step will be commercials on the music channels, for some of us, XM had several commercial music stations when we signed on years ago but the cost I think was $9.95 a month. I am not sure where I was going with this, but food for thought. It is funny to see how different the xm and sirius folks are, they are really hard core fans and very devoted to their own. We just came out of an election and to me the xm fans are like democrats and very liberal in their musical taste while the sirius fans are like republicans and very conservative in their music. All I can say is we lost this one. But I will give it a try and until something comes along better for in the car I will keep my 4 radios.

As an XM listener, I'd be ok with it if they had not deleted two of my favorite stations: The Rhyme and Fine Tuning. They also bastardized 66 Raw, The City and Soul Street but I can live with that. The worst thing is it was done with no warning. That was low!! At least they didn't mess with the talk stations.

I don't know what to say about this but I know that one of the reasons I left Sirius a couple of years ago was because of music burn out. The Sirius playlist (especially on 70's) is horribly shallow. I listend for a bit today but I know that I won't listen to the "new old" 70's channel nearly as much as I did on XM.

I've also noticed a decrease in the audio quality no doubt related to adding channels and narrowing bandwidth so they can get them in.

I'll see what I think in a couple of weeks but if I don't feel any better I'll drop to news/talk only or get rid of the subscription entirely.

MIKE nova...i seen that list on proghiphop.com

I FUCKIN LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IM NOT GOIN NO WHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIP-HOP IS FUCKIN SAVED BITCHES!!!!!!!!!

AND PHILLY'S OWN DJ BEE

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have seen a couple posts that discuss the new channel lineup and somehow want to link it to the new administration. You people are crazy..... Obama isnt omnipotent. He doesnt care about the channels on SXM.

Just wanted to say that.

I have Sirius and after Stern I've listened to Octane, Buzzsaw, Hard Attack, The Vault & Hair Nation the most. I don't like the fact that Octane has been taken over completely by Squizz culture. There are alot of songs on Octane that I really like and now they're gone. I think it would have been smarter to blend the two channels together. Squizz's playlist basically replaced Octane's overnight. They did the opposite with Hard attack. The Hard Attack playlist is the same but now it's called Liquid Metal. I liked the name Hard Attack better. Buzzsaw is gone so there is no classic hard rock until Boneyard comes back in January. Deep Tracks has a better playlist but the Vault is a better name. Only Hair Nation is intact. I live in L.A. and radio here SUCKS so I'll live with it.

So far, I have only this to say to the Sirius "personalities" I now hear.....

SHUT UP!!!

I paid for music, not your lame jokes or stories about how you once shook hands with the sister of a guy who knew a roadie to Def Leppard.

Where we have limited choice of radio stations, a classical NPR station being one and the other two being "canned crap", as a music lover I have had no other choice but to subscribe and enjoy xm for years. No one has really mentioned the elimination of Hear Music, the Starbux Channel that was on 45. What a shame, it was my mainstay and introduced us here to many musicians who occasionally pass through our upstate music venues, in the smaller theaters and concert halls. I never received any letter and because Starbux did no advertising or had a dj it was a complete shock. I flipped through some channels nothing seems to compare!

You know, I just saw a comment about 175 up from here (most commented post ever?) and it reminded me that for all the complaining I've done already, I hadn't mentioned the one thing I will miss the most. The XM audio 'logo'... whatever you want to call them... instead now I just have some channel constantly claiming to be MY alternative channel (which, as I recall, is not that channel, but one called Ethel).

Why are they taking away channels ? Whats wrong with more choices ? Even if there is some overlap . Its beginning to sound more like Fm ..
Bring back Boombox

I'm not happy, I have been a Sirius subscriber since Howard Stern gave out the free radios. I have been committed ever since. I'm a big music fan so I am disappointed that Left of Center and Boombox have gone. THe recommendations are not like for like, why not just tell me to listen to country and western. You have to be kidding me.
Before any one starts typing in all Caps and tells me to just listen to my Ipod and to go back to FM radio, please don't be so righteous. All I am saying is that this wasn't thought out by people who like music. If it was then it would have been better thought out.

Give me back my boombox and LOC and I will be happy camper. Is that too much to ask. Its not like I can go anywhere else now, it really has become the monopoly that the FCC was scared about.

They know that I will never listen to terrestial radio, but now I'm stuck.

I mostly listened to Lucy.
I popped Lithium on and off today, the biggest thing i noticed was that everytime I was listening, it was nothing but the hits. When there was an overplayed hit that I didn't want to hear, I jumped to other channels, or threw in a CD at work. I quit listening to regular FM radio and watching MTV because while I don't mind the hits, I find that a lot of times the "hits" are far from the best songs on a CD.

I am not sure how repititious the channel formerly known as Lucy is or any other channels, as i haven't listened too much today, but I hope it isn't as repitious as Sirius playlists were when I was looking into satellite radio 4 years ago. there are other alternatives at work, with the ipod, and other internet streaming choices.

In the car--I don't drive all that much, but on longer road trips, I may flip channels more than before, or throw the ipod on.

I have always thought it silly to give one artist an entire channel, now XM has 5 or 6. I think you limit your diversity and choice when you give one artist a whole channel. I can see having one channel, and rotating an artist every month, but 5 or 6 seperate channels for a single artist is limiting choice.
just my 2 cents

I like BBC1 and Lithium seems, okay.

But to delete Aguila? We better be getting Regional Mexican PLUS Tejano from the minority broadcasters. And why even have POTUS if you're going to have the same run-of-the-mill he-said she-said talk shows on the channel. As a political science major in college, I enjoyed the unbiased, inside-the-beltway talk.

What it comes down to, speaking as a West Coaster by birth, is that Sirius is too New York for me. Tropical music? Bruce Springsteen? The Catholic Archdiocese of New York? Howard Stern? Bob Papa, the voice of the New York Giants on the NFL radio morning show? NO Snoop Dogg in the new hip-hop channels?

They do know it's *satellite* radio, right?

I subscribed to this for music, If I wanted more talk radio I'd listen to A.M.

Not happy AT ALL...seems to me the sirius folks got the best of this deal by a long shot. Gone are Squizz, ethel and Lucy...replaced by Octane, Lithium and Alt Nation. Already I've heard songs repeated today...which rarely happened on xm. The sirius version just sounds like my local hard rock station, and for 16 bucks a month...that's not gonna fly with me. I have my MLB stations for next year ad I get to listen to Espn, and Talk radio and Maddog radio...so that is fine. Music wise? I'm not happy in the least. These channels (Lithium and Octane especially) had better step it up BIG TIME in the coming days.

I have 60' on 6 on its fine to me This genre of music on FM is getting scarce as Jack Bob Dave took them all over . There are a few high power AM stations still playin 60's stuff but listing to AM now is terrible as it drifts all over. Back then in 1966 that all we had and we were forced to listen to it . As I have stated before sat Radio changed it all.As far as I'm concerned I 'just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in'[ its on now] Way to go Kenny Rogers & the First Edition. This playlist still beats any FM oldies station left out there .Its a ok with me, makes me feel like Im 15 again just like 60's vibrations . No big change. I am definitely keepin all of my subs active.I for one like the new line up after a whole day off of sweeping the channels top to bottom.Its still a good buy for me and I see others agree here too.I asked a few others I know and they too are stayin.Theyre hooked.

Bring back THE BEAT (for me) and bring back KIDS' STUFF (for my son). BPM, which replaced The Beat, SUCKS. And the new kid's channel is a watered-down, slightly younger version of Radio Disney. THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!! My subscription runs out at the end of this year, and I WILL NOT RENEW unless THE BEAT and KIDS' STUFF are returned as they were!

PS: Fire Mel Karmazin while you're at it!

I absolutely love Maxim radio, but unfortunately it doesn't look like they're going to keep it around. It'll be switching names and Covino and Rich will be moving back to an afternoon spot. Stretch is gone, D&D will be ending soon as well. If this channel tanks, unfortunately I don't think I may be keeping my sub for that much longer. =\

Overall I am extremely satisfied with the combination of channels. It was about time that the playlist of The Beat and Area 38 was deepened...my wish was finally granted today with BPM in place of The Beat and the addition of many great programs and tracks to Area 38!

Also, I am very pleased with the addition of the 90's on 9 and the reconfiguration of The Pulse. Again, there is a deeper playlist on The Pulse.

There are only a few minor things that I am not happy about. First (and probably most importantly) is the fact Sirius seems to have fired my favorite Beat DJ, Mr. Seth. I always looked forward to his radio show every night. Another thing that has irritated me a little bit is the addition of Pop2K...like we need another Hits channel???? I have been tuning in on and off to this channel all day and it seems to be fairly identical to both The Pulse and Sirius Hits 1 (more to Hits 1 than anything). I feel for those whose fav. station was Boombox.

Overall though, I am very pleased with the channel merge...I do wish I could have heard about it from Sirius themselves instead of off SiriusBackstage forums.

Anyway...happy listening to everyone...and as many others have said...if you are not happy with Sirius, the car commercials are awaiting you on FM :P !

Devastated at the loss of boombox - Email Sirius and tell them why your upset over the loss of your favorite channels.

JLITTLE

Not happy AT ALL...seems to me the sirius folks got the best of this deal by a long shot. Gone are Squizz, ethel and Lucy...replaced by Octane, Lithium and Alt Nation. Already I've heard songs repeated today...which rarely happened on xm. The sirius version just sounds like my local hard rock station, and for 16 bucks a month...that's not gonna fly with me. I have my MLB stations for next year ad I get to listen to Espn, and Talk radio and Maddog radio...so that is fine. Music wise? I'm not happy in the least. These channels (Lithium and Octane especially) had better step it up BIG TIME in the coming days.

Where is General Ortega and the Army of Weirdness?!?!?!?!

This sucks Mel said on Howard that we would not loose any channels and he lied. fuck the MERGER

Horrible move. It isn't fair that the company provided absolutely no notice about this. I picked XM years ago for a reason, better playlists less DJs. I'm very disapointed, but will give it a try until the end of the year, if not, Slacker here we come.

Fred, Ethel and Lucy were far superior and XM had those channels right on. The Sirius versions trample on each other, they have no clue what "alternative" is. I still have not heard any Joy Division on 1st Wave.

I was a dual subscriber and I'm very happy about the lineup changes. The best move personally was keeping Left of Center over XMU (Trust me, it's LOC with a new name). LOC was my favorite station on either of the satrad and it was the only reason I considered keeping my Sirius Subscription over XM. XMU played some good tunes that I hope they incorporate into the LOC playlists but overall I couldn't be happier. XMU wasn't even the best indie station on XM. That was the Verge, and that stayed anyway so it's a win-win. Also, glad to see Underground Garage make it to xm. I do wish they would have kept Lucy over Lithium, however.

I am OK with BBC and UPop switching, but am MOST upset about 84 Chill programming moving to Sirius control. I NEVER listened to Chrome, and this new Chill programming reminds me of that dribble + plus the trendy Morcheeba and ETBTG mixed in. Not my idea of chilling at all. Where is the unique mix of rare tracks that XM had? Audiovisions is a true loss as well and I hope that Spa will not disappoint as Chill has.

30's hits from 2k has too much rap and losing old school rap is another fail on their programming. When I want rap, I will tune it in, keep it out of my 80's, 90's and 2k's. I hope that Shady's station will fill the old-school rap void.

I have four radios between in-home and cars and from what I heard after this day, am going to consider a move to iPod integration and podcasts upon my renewal if things don't recover.

I'm a Sirius sub and I'm disappointed by the loss of Disorder (Loft is in NO WAY an adequate substitute) and Backspin. I can't even imagine how crushed the XM subs must be.

If FM radio wasn't total garbage in my area, I might just dump Sirius. But it sucks, I have a 40 minute commute each way, and I don't have time to work up clever playlists on my ipod every day.

Congratulations, Mel, you're just enough better than the alternatives that I'm not dropping your ass.

Now, could you get some of your drones to evaluate the channels you've got left, eliminate some of the overlap, and give us more variety? I'm not sure why we need all three of Spectrum, Coffeehouse, and The Loft, among many others.

First, I would like to say that I was disappointed that Sirius XM did not have the (g/n)uts to tell us up front when the channel merging was going to take place. Had I not been a regular reader to the Orbitcast forum, I would gone into shock when I turned my XM receivers on this morning. As an adult, I understand that this was a necessary financial development, and this merger would help to ensure satellite radio's survival. Additionally, I know that this company did not do this to increase profits but to finally turn a profit. However, they should as least share any changes that are going to occur with their customers BEFORE their customers have to hear about it somewhere else. I am sure that it is hard to efficiently commute and notify each and everyone of their subscribers, yet they certainly don't have a problem communicating with my checking account every month.

With all that said, I am going to hang in there. I can deal with some of my favorite stations being changed or deleted. Ironically, I might find in time that I like the new stations even better than the ones that they replaced. What I won't get over is how this change occurred without one word of notice. I am an adult, not a child and I like to be treated like one. What were they thinking?

The sound quality has declined to an unbearable level. Everything is so compressed now that it's almost impossible to listen without my ears ringing.

Unsubscribing by the end of the week.

When I got XM radio for my birthday two years ago, at least twice a week, every week, up until now, I would say,"I love XM radio. I love Cross Country. Marty Fitzpatrick is the best! If they ever get rid of Cross Country I will cancel my subscription". Never thinking this would happen, I purchased another radio for another vehicle, and then another one still for my daughter's truck.
Please tell me that I haven't lost Cross Country Radio. No more Marty Fitzpatrick?
My IPod works nicely in my vehicle and it costs me nothing a month to operate. If Cross Country is truly lost forever...XM/Sirius loses me. Outlaw Country is a pale substitute for the wonder that was (is?) Cross Country Radio.

I'm so pissed about Chrome being gone. I've been a customer for over four years and I've already written a letter, but I might as well have just stuck my finger up my anus, it would have had the same effect.

It has only been barely a day and people are going off the tracks about this change.. I personally like it. I gained several channels I'm really liking so far.The Blend being one,plays a great mix of stuff and much better than sirius super shuffle! My only gripes would be with music channel name changes.. here are my thoughts
Sirius Gold= 50's on 5 ( I think sirius gold was a better name)
Hard Attack= Liquid Metal( Liquid metal?? what the hell is that?? Hard attack was a much better more appropriate name)
Willies Place= (good stuff here, but then again i'm a big country fan)
40's on 4= (glad to have this one as well, if one likes this big band style of music)
Buzzsaw= The Boneyard( Cool name, just hope they don't change the style that Buzzsaw was known for)
New Country=The Highway( ok name change i suppose not very descriptive of what its playing)
I could go on and on but so far so good! I'm also glad to be gaining NHL radio back on Sirius where it was once before. Hopefully I'll be able to get MLB when that comes back on..
I'm just having fun checking out each new channel..

I am thrilled so far with the new lineup because I seem to get the best of almost all worlds. I enjoyed the quality of Sirius' music channels, but missed the number of options by genre of XM. The merged lineup seems to give the best of both. Add in the better talk lineup on XM and Howard now available with the best of Sirius package and it looks very good. Be realistic: This merger and these resulting changes are the most likely chance that satellite radio will be around for a long time to come.

Themadcap, you should hear Joy Division on First Wave unless they changed from before - they used to play a couple of their songs quite often when I used to hear First Wave on Dish Network.

Listening more, I am seeing that there are some fair substitutions for channels, although some are not ones I listened to a lot, so it's hard to say how an enthusiast would react. A few people have commented about the loss of Chrome, but it seems that The Groove (64) might be something to check into there, as it sounds somewhat similar.

As a die-hard X Country listener, though, I am not so far very pleased with Outlaw Country. For one thing, the language of the jocks is pretty coarse; in a roughly half-hour segment of listening I heard them drop "the F bomb" three times. I know some of the songs on the X weren't squeaky clean, and I do not want that, but it seems overdone, as if they're trying to appeal to teenagers who think it's cool hearing someone cuss on the air. The tone of the channel is just totally different - I could see where it would appeal to some people, but to me it lacks the class that X Country had. And while there's some music overlap, there's just too much that's unappealing to sift through to get to what you want.

Bring back the X, please. If and when we get to the "a la carte" plans, I'd be glad to pay extra for it.

I am still waiting for OutQ 109 to move to the new lineup.

Words cannot describe how upset I am. I received my Sirius subscription a couple years ago as a gift. I wandered around the stations a day or two and then found Boombox 34. I've listened to little else since. When it moved to 39 my head almost exploded when I was looking for it. This morning I waited for the update to end and went to 39 .. 34 .. went through every channel looking for it. Finally, I gave up and decided to listen to Backspin....................I can't believe this. There is no station like Boombox on the planet. There is no replacement for Backspin. This is unacceptable.

Hate it, hate it, hate it.

No punk channel? No classic hop-hop?

Hate it.

I'm sure it's already been said at least 25 times here, but I'll add on to it: I hate that The Rhyme and Backspin are both gone. Beyond Jazz gone from XM sucks, as well.

Didn't get to listen to too much but I AM EXTREMELY PISSED THAT BACKSPIN IS GONE!!!

There is no old school/hip hop station anymore. Now we just get this new garbage that all sounds the same and has no real feeling to it instead. They already have Shade45 playing mostly new Rap, Hip Hop Nation is a channel I always blew right past to get to some real Hip Hop on Backspin and it is now gone.

I pray that they bring this station back cause outside of Stern and some rock stations I am going to my Ipod for music from now on.

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Join "Brooklyn's Own" Joe Causi, as he brings you the music when chrome was everywhere and you were dancin' under the strobe... It's the Disco sounds like only Joe can bring it to you...

I think that most of the people listing every missing (duplicate) or changed channel as can't live without, what am I going to do, sound like big babies. Of course, it will take some time to try to make both Sirius and XM listeners more comfortable with the changes and they will make adjustments as feedback is sent in. If you think that are not pouring over emails and calls about the programing changes, think again.
I must say I do have a little trouble with individuals stating that some of the country and hip-hop channels, that are not there anymore, were there favorites? It seems as if some are just taking the different line-ups and finding the differences.

First day I listened to
Classic Rewind ,I thought
it was BigTracks with new
name,but tuned in today
to find my music interupted by chatty djs.
MUSIC ONLY PLEASE!!!!!!!
Also Where's The
Disco/Dance Channel 83????
Last ,but not Least,
It would have been nice to have TopTracks,Classic Vinyl,BigTracks,Classic Rewind,BoneYard,BuzzSaw All on One Radio to really get the true value
of This Merger!!!!!!

Any Talk about Teaming up

With Ibiquity to get HD Radio broadcast of merged satradio music channels
in exchange for carrying
HD Radio in new generation satradios????

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Where the hell is Keith Roth? They even purged his name from the website?

The changes are fine with me. I don't notice much of a difference and I am very happy to have BBC 1 and NPR on. I do have a problem with the new logos. Can anyone else decipher some of them on their innos? Good Lord, the logo for "Coffeehouse" looks like a mustard smear. It's unreadable.

I need more time to explore everything, but I am happy overall- they kept what I wanted and jettisoned things I personally had no interest in. (I will not miss the Disco channel, thanks.)

It could have been handled far worse, and hey, they can always make changes down the line. SatRad has that flexibility to add or subtract a format anytime it deems necessary. But all in all, I think they showed good judgment and sensibility.

I think it's awful. The merger was supposed to bring more channels, not less. And, one of my favorites since my daughter was 2 (and is now 6) was Kids Stuff. Kids Stuff was 24/7 kids music that was unique, fun, touching, etc. They even had a baby boomer hour in the evening that played music when we were kids. Instead, they re-vamped the inferior XM Kids channel-- which was always for older kids-- and re-named it Kid Place Live. It's filled with talk, and gab, and music for older kids. There is some former Sirius Kids Stuff music but it's hit or miss whn you'll get it, and it's usually surrounded by noisy screaming hosts. Not fun for a family drive. That's the most disappointing and glaring change, but bottom line we have gotten less now, not more. The merger was a mistake.

I am very happy. I am a subscriber (3 radios) to XM with 1 "Best of Sirius".

1. I am old folkie and XM15 "the Village Survived. In addition, there is now from Sirius 51 "The Coffeehouse" for acoustic music.

2. The decades from the 40s on remain. When my parents are in the car, they enjoy 40s on 4.

3. Sports, sports, and more sports. One of the reasons for me having XM was Major League Baseball so I could follow the Red Sox. I also follow the Bruins and Celtics. With the Best of Sirius I now also can follwo the Patriots.

4. XM164 Radio Classics remain, I felt this was the better of the two.

I know that there are folks that are very disappointed; everytime either service made a change, there were cries of agony from some.

All in all, the service remains a good value for me and my family.

Your opinions may differ, but that is fine.

Bob

As an XM subscriber, I'll give it a couple weeks to get used to this abomination. But first impressions - this new 'irrationalized' line up sucks orangutan ass.

Missed listening to Dylan's show yesterday - yeah, guess what I am not in my car at 11 on Wednesdays - thanks for nixing XMX.

If Mel is so poor, why did he just give himself a mega-million dollar Christmas bonus and hire a couple of people at what one hundred used to make. That man has ice water in his veins.

The Foxhole is a shithole.

I was extremely disappointed to see that The Vault is gone. It is basically the only music station I listened to on Sirius. Deep Tracks is good, to a point--I have XM in my car, along with Sirius--but it appears that obscurity is a virtue with Deep Tracks. Time will tell, but I certainly hope that they can program Deep Tracks to incorporate more of what we used to hear on The Vault--ELP, Traffic, Yes, Caravan, Tull, Genesis (including Peter Gabriel-era Genesis!). I'm not saying that the playlist of Deep Tracks is bad, just saying that I think they can program a better mix of progressive rock of the 60s and 70s that was so important to the evolution of rock. I know I can get all that I want from my CD player and iPod, but it was always great to get in my car, turn on Sirius and be rewarded with "Suppers Ready" from Genesis, or "Trilogy" from ELP or "Winter Wine" from Caravan.

I don't understand you fools. For almost two years all you whined about was getting this merger done. I told you all that XM programming will be a distant memory if this happened.

I caught a lot of grief and was accused of being "out of touch", a nay-sayer and even a troll for the NAB.

Well, look at what we have now - XM programming decimated, soon to be a distant memory. Just what you all wanted.

This is the begining of the end of satelite radio. They have removed everything I liked so there is no sense in me keeping my subscription.

Bring back "universo latino" or disconnect!

Well IMHO this merge stuff worked perfectly fine for the XM subscribers. They get all the sports, their music selection just got better, and they have a bunch of repeaters so their signal works beautifully.

On the other hand, Sirius music selection just died, censoring hip hop stations, no more old skool, no more disco music, only one blues channel and so far no notice if we are going to be able to get MLB. it doesnt worth the price anymore, in fact im thinking about cancelling my 3 Sirius radios and keep just one XM.

My Ipod will work better and cheaper.

I'm pissed they dropped Backspin 43, That was the first channel I went to after Howard 100!

Wow. Sounds like everyone is thrilled with the changes.

Interesting. It seems as though most of the Sirius listeners are very happy, and the old XM listeners are not.

I haven't had a chance to listen to the music channels much yet, but I briefly sampled XM 45 (used to be XM Cafe) yesterday. All I heard was a DJ talking too much, and a couple of overplayed U2 songs. Huh. Maybe some of the other new channels will be better.

I'm giving it a chance. It cannot possibly be worse than local FM programming.

As long as O&A are on, I will still subscribe.

Interesting. It seems as though most of the Sirius listeners are very happy, and the old XM listeners are not.

I haven't had a chance to listen to the music channels much yet, but I briefly sampled XM 45 (used to be XM Cafe) yesterday. All I heard was a DJ talking too much, and a couple of overplayed U2 songs. Huh. Maybe some of the other new channels will be better.

I'm giving it a chance. It cannot possibly be worse than local FM programming.

As long as O&A are on, I will still subscribe.

I have yet to receive an e-mail or any other notification from XM. I've lost 10 of the 18 presets on my radio. I am interested to try out the extra comedy channels, plus E-Street radio. The one station that I was hoping would get replaced on XM, naturally, was kept (that's the christian station - they went way downhill a year or two ago.)
I told myself that I would give XM three months to decide whether to keep my subscription (I paid for 5 years, and I think that runs out sometime next year). I am thinking now that it's one month. I've completely given up.

Can anyone tell me why BBC Radio 1 is simulcasting The System on XMRO?

Do they not have the rights to re-broadcast BBC's content online because their own website offers it?

I gave up on commercial FM radio about 30 years ago because of the juvenile nature. "The Spectrum" reminds me of what I hated about traditional free radio.

Here is what I heard while listening to "The spectrum" (the rectum) which replaced (my favorite) "XM Cafe".

7:30 obnoxious, channel ID/Jingle
7:30 1 song
7:35 annoying, fast talking announcer chatter
7:36 1 song
7:38 obnoxious, Dylan theme time radio advertisement
7:39 2 songs
7:47 obnoxious, channel ID/Jingle
7:47 2 songs
7:54 annoying, fast talking announcer chatter
7:54 2 songs
8:02 annoying channel ID/Jingle
8:02 2 songs
8:12 annoying, fast talking announcer chatter
8:12 2 songs
8:21 obnoxious, Bruce Springsteen radio advertisement
8:22 1 song
8:26 annoying channel ID/Jingle
8:26 2 songs
8:32 annoying, fast talking announcer chatter (with mispronouncing Michael Franti's name)
8:32 2 songs
8:40 obnoxious, channel ID/Jingle
8:40 1 song
8:44 annoying channel ID/Jingle
8:44 2 songs
8:52 annoying, fast talking announcer chatter

Can someone tell me why Sirius seems to have a rule about not playing more than 2 songs in a row w/o an annoying interruption? How about a 20 to 30 minute set of UNINTERRUPTED music followed by tasteful (as in no hype) back announcing, and then back into the music? I am a 52 year old adult and seriously want to not have to be annoyed by the now dumbed down satellite radio service I pay for.

Obviously the Sirius music programming staff have commercial radio backgrounds.

Todd

jmarkzat wrote:

"System became Area, High Standards became Sinatra, Audiovision became Spa (and seems to have taken the best thing about Audiovision - the good accoustics prgramming"

Tell me you are kidding. If you really do listen to Audiovisions or The System you know what a joke this has turned out to be. I'm gonna guess you work for the company. The system and Especially The Move were well thought out well researched perfect representations of the best of the Electronic Dance Music World. As a True Electronic Dance Music DJ for over a decade I and all the other listeners in the know understood just how incredible a job they did with those channels. When you can hear the Beatport Countdown on The Move once a week you knew you had it as good as it could possibly get. Beatport is by far the most popular and important site for DJ's looking for the best of new material. Between amazing radioshows like that of the Beatport countdown and so many others there was half decent programming none at all of which is offered at all with "The Area" Which can best be described as Clearance Rack Record shelf material their bland boring and no where near the quality of material as their Predecesores. If I hear Sandstorm once I am cancelling faster then you can blink an eye. What it comes down to is this - This has absolutely destroyed Electronic Dance Music for Satellite Radio. For anyone like myself who is an avid Dance Music Listener we now no longer have a broadcast of our musical tastes to get anywhere but the internet. Say goodbye to getting in your car after work and hearing a new track you can't wait to get your hands on. IT'S OVER!

XM Chill.... or is it?

It absolutely is not XM Chill. This hasn't been nearly as bad as the above stations transition though it has clearly gone way downhill. 90% of what I have heard so far has been new material which holds not a single flame to what XM Chill used to be. As an amateur downtempo chillout lounge music producer I can atleast say that I will feel less intimidated by that of which I hear on the radio now. I'll choke this one up best I can for now.

Audiovision - Spa, Transion:

Also an absolute disappointment for what once was known to play some of the most deep intense amazing ambient/new age ever made with artists like Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, Michael Stearn, John Serrie, just to name a few has now been replaced by no name garbage that you can find on the shelves of beach side gift shops along with your souvenir saltwater taffy. And finally what kinda name is SPA? I'm not some high society woman going to get her nails done here.

Summary:

I understand listener's of these genre's are by far not the majority but for once I felt like a corporate run broadcasting company felt like putting some effort into it's playlists for us a handful of it's listeners. It seems now thats its back to what you would only expect from a company this large. Appeal to the majority get your numbers from them and throw some scrap at those left over. If they stay thats great, if they don't so what the numbers aren't big enough to make a dent. The thing they need to understand is were not that hard to please just give us quality material and we'll be happy. They once had it just bring it back. Hire back the program directors that were doing such a good job and you won't lose these listeners. Obviously we don't matter to them or they wouldn't have done this in the first place.

I'll hang out awhile keep a little hope alive that over the course of time they hear these cries from passionate listeners like myself and make the necessary adjustments.

I guess only time will tell. As for now I am heartbroken. And for those who want to tell me to stop wining and crying I ask put yourself in my shoes and all those others who lost basically everything that they listen to in this merger. Imagine it was you and everything you listened to was pretty much gone and replaced with a poor representation of what you used to listen to. I think you would be pretty damn upset as well.

XM Sirius I have faith that you will get it together and do the right things. I just hope it happens before I cancel.

Kevin C

ya and what the hell is this single band stations taking up full channel slots?

Elvis
Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
and
Jimmy Buffet

Classic Rock and Elvis fans will be happy but I'm supposed to give up my channels for single artists stations?! That's such a slap in the face I might just have to cancel on principal alone!

I personally am pleased with the programming. In my favor is that I have Sirius and so these changes are a plus but also I have a wide range of tastes so even with the loss of some stations and genre specific channels i am still entertained by what is there and pleased with the replacements. We all lost something in this change(Sirius Disorder for me). Testicular Radio is not a viable option so we all need to grow up and be happy with what we have. If it goes away we all are going to get sick of listening to what we have on our IPods before portable Internet Radio comes to the rescue.Let's all remember why we came to XM and Sirius in the first place.

both companies were hurting, the merger was approved by the justice dept. for this to happen because monopoly's are something very scary and should be avoided when they happen voices no longer are heard variety disappears people idea's and expressions are drowned out by majorities cause "thats where the money is" Society becomes stagnant in creative differences blaa i can go forever. this is a dangerous thing you seen just happen. Don't think it's not. Here's an article about the approval

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/business/25radio.html

Overall, I like it, though I miss Disorder and Fine Tuning. I hope that Celtic Crush has found a new home, I love that show.

I really don't like the long SiruisXM commercials that they now seem to be running on all the music stations. We never had that before with XM.

Also why are they putting call-in talk radio shows on POTUS? That makes no sense.

But I like having NPR and the world news channel now.

DAMMIT MAN!! I was hoping that there would be deeper playlists, and now Backspin is gone, HipHop Nation and the Heat are edited. This does suck. Really disappointed.

Yeah im sorry to say that the merger seems to have destroyed the uniqueness of satellite radio. I want boombox and backspin back!!! What are we paying for if we arent getting what we want and with no warning or options. I feel bamboozled!

Sirius XM should have polled it's listeners, find out what THEY like, then made cuts that way. They also should have communicated with us about the changes.

I'm guessing it's a bunch of turmoil over there right now; they probably didn't see the economy going into the sh!tter...and their prospects were grim to begin with, with commercial radio ripping their guts out.

I was pretty pleased with Sirius XM U yesterday, then went to listen to my favorite station, Backspin. Nas is right. Hip Hop is dead.

So I tried to stay positive - I have a lifetime sub, and 17,000 shares of SIRI. I turned it to Shade 45. What an embarrassment. They had a female porn star on there yesterday saying things like "mafucka, I's CLEAN - cleaner d'an all y'all ho's out there fuckin with no protection!"

Just play the fucking music you stupid assholes. What a horrible decision to keep that shitty station and lose the real gem (which probably cost 1/3 of the money, as there weren't 30 idiots talking about the lifestyle).

I was unpleasantly surprised by these changes. I've been a Sirius and XM customer for years and strongly preferred XM's line ups. Sirius sounds like it was programmed by Clear Channel execs, while XM had a greater diversity of music.

I am angry that Lucy, Fred and Ethel are gone, replaced by total crap imitators -- stations I could not stand over on Sirius. I haven't had time to see if the Verge has been replaced by some bland Sirius channel.

And Soul Street seems to be gone, along with the awesome DJs. XM always had far better personalities than Sirius -- I guess the new combined entity has gone down the cheap path. But I never bought into XM because of the price. The content was why I subscribed.

I only kept Sirius around because it was a tax deduction (my wife works in radio and I used to).

I canceled Sirius last night -- if I can cut back XM and keep the NavTraffic, I may well do that as well.

Disorder pretty much the ONLY thing I listened to on Sirius. Spent yesterday scanning through channels and no apparent substitute. No warning this was going away. Not so happy.

If you are dispointed as I am, the best we can do is to let Sirius/XM know...Go to their website click on the help link and email customer care...the more emails they get, they have to take notice that they are pissing off their subscribers who became very loyal to a specific channel..

They should have at least poll their subscribers to see what people want and let people know in advance NOT turn on the radio and the channel is gone!!!

As an XM subscriber, overall i'm happy with the new lineup

ALL IN ALL
I THINK MOST PEOPLE LIKE THE CHANGES!

When I first became an xmradio subscriber the two things that amazed me were the sound quality and the depth of the programming. Literally overnight these have dropped to be about on par with FM-Broadcast level--I doubt my acct will be open by the month's end

I finally got an email today telling me about the channel changes that happened yesterday! I also got an answer back from customer support at XM about my complaint that Outlaw had replaced Xcountry. They told me how wonderful the station is and all the great artists I'll get to hear.

There is no Comparison between XCountry and Outlaw. Outlaw is like a bunch of hick DJ's playing worn out music. The DJ's are horrible and talk more than play music. They seem to revel in their ignorance and think they are so funny. One does not have to be a red neck to enjoy the wide variety of country music that is available. This channel is an insult to one's intelligence. It will never take the place of Cross Country. I have signed a petition on this site with 4.5 million signatures and climbing. If you don't want to loose the great music that we had on XM, email them and sign the petition and forward it to your friends. Maybe they will listen to their subscripers before they lose them. XM, you were GREAT and now you STINK.

I'm a longtime XM subscriber, and post channel merger, I'm still very happy. While I don't really get the single artist 24/7 channels, there's still plenty of other choices to like.

I guess if someone was particularly attached to one of the lost channels, I can understand their frustration. I liked Chrome, but being that there is only a limited classic dance library, it did repeat quite a lot. I can't imagine it was a terribly popular channel. I choose to look toward the positive on this one. On the 70's, there is now a Saturday night disco show. I'll take that.

I suppose when you put your music listening into the hands of another, (local radio included) you have to deal with the programming choices of someone else. While you may not always like what they do, ultimately, they run the show.

There are plenty of other alternatives to satellite radio out there, be it Slacker, (which would be my second choice) an all you can download music service like Rhapsody, internet radio, (Flytunes.fm is free, and has over 1000 channels that can be played via your iPod touch, iPhone, or other smart phones. Vote with your dollars. If you can't live with the new XM Sirius, put your equipment on Craig's list, and go with another choice that makes you happy. Competition is good for everyone.

Fine tuning, and the style of music with an open format was one of the channels that made XM great. Now it's gone.

XM now seems to be not much more than FM without commercials. Narrow playlists, no channel playing progressive rock from ELP, Renaissance, etc... Yet, they have dedicated channels for Elvis, AC/DC, Led Zep, and one has to ask why since these artists already are featured on the rock channels.

Truly mind numbingly stupid programming moves.

I am an XM subscriber and I think there will be an adjustment period for everyone. I am trying to be positive. I was a loyal XMU, Fred and Lucy listener. I'm not happy with the alternatives at this point. It does seem like the depth of the playlists have been effected.

I thought XM was doing better than Sirius? If that is correct, why does it seem like Sirius "took over" XM and not the other way around.

I am hopeful for any alternatives for XM Sirius in the future.

Say NO to censorship! Sirius used to be all about that. Getting very concerned.