SiriusXM is making its next lineup update on August 13 that will see an eventual seven new brands launch on the service.
The new channels being added to both the Sirius and XM receiver platforms are:
Channel 13 Velvet – contemporary pop vocalists such as Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Diana Krall, Celine Dion, Susan Boyle, Harry Connick, Jr., Il Divo, Adele, and the cast of Glee.Channel 18 Road Trip Radio – a new limited-run channel that will make you want to drive with your windows down! Road Trip Radio features a mix of music from The Rolling Stones to Pharrell Williams, Kenny Loggins to Florida Georgia Line, Janet Jackson to The Beach Boys, and many moreChannel 47 Fly – Hip-Hop and R&B from the ’90s and 2000s, from Mary J. Blige & Outkast to Aaliyah & Jay-ZChannel 94 Comedy Greats – legends like Richard Pryor, Louis CK, and Chris Rock. SiriusXM Comedy Greats plays the best material from the biggest names, from classic comedians of the past to the icons of todayChannel 102 Radio Andy – Andy Cohen’s fun, uncensored entertainment and talk for anyone who loves pop culture, celebrities, lifestyle, relationships and the dish on all topics deep and shallow. You never know who will stop by Radio Andy and what will be saidChannel 115 Fox News Headlines 24/7 – Staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year, FOX News Headlines 24/7 on SiriusXM will deliver the day’s top stories at any timeChannel 171 CBC Radio Country – he best in new Canadian country mixed with the latest music from Country’s biggest starsFive will launch on August 13, with Radio Andy and Fox News Headlines coming later this fall. Other changes being made include:
Three XM and Online channels launching on the Sirius platform:
Channel 77 Kidz BopChannel 173 The VergeChannel 174 Influence FrancoThree new channels debuting online and on newer SiriusXM receivers:
Channel 300 Poptropolis featuring 80s, ’90s, and millennium music all on one channelChannel 314 SiriusXM Turbo featuring hard rock and nu-metal from the ’90s to the early 2000sChannel 470 El Paisa, a new Latino variety channel features music, celebrities, news, sports, inspirational, home, and personal improvement contentChannels changing location are:
31 The Coffee House to 14
46 Backspin to 43
47 The Heat to 46
150 Caliente to 69
83 ESPN Radio to 80
84 ESPN Extra to 81
85 Mad Dog Radio to 82
93 (Sirius)/208 (XM) Bleacher Report Radio to 83
91 College Sports Nation to 84
94 SiriusXM FC to 85
211 (Sirius)/218 (XM) NHL Network Radio to 91
93 (XM) PGA Tour Radio to 92
92 Sports Zone to 93 and renamed SiriusXM Rush
81 Doctor Radio to 110
115 CNN to 116
116 HLN to 117
117 MSNBC to 118
118 BBC World Service to 120
80 Rural Radio to 147
82 RadioClassics to 148
Channels being removed or being placed online only are:
102 SiriusXM Indie
120 C-SPAN (Moving To Online 405)
148 Aguila (Moving To Online 305)
156 Radio Formula Mexico
161 (Sirius) Iceberg (Moving To Online 762)
164 (Sirius) Attitude Franco (Moving To Online 763)
171 CBC Music: Sonica
Programs from SiriusXM Indie will move to other channels. Covino & Rich will be heard on SiriusXM Rush. Bennington and Unmasked will move to Raw Dog Comedy and Opie Radio. Coast to Coast AM moves to Road Dog Trucking.
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Hopefully they update their infrastructure… My Sirius radio will not pickup a handful of stations and no matter how may times I call Customer service or receive re-hits, it will never update.
Outside of you having an older radio that can’t get more than 128 channels because of memory limitations on the radio itself, chances are you just have a defective radio. As for “updating their infrastructure” they already did that with the new SiriusXM 2.0 platform that’s available with newer radios like the Onyx Plus. Since it uses newer codecs that give them better audio with less bandwidth, it’s not backwards compatible with older models, so until more people upgrade their radios, the bulk of the channels have to remain on the older platforms.
You forgot Escape channel 69… Beautiful Music is being removed from the satellite radio and moved to online only.
Worst move in SiriusXM history.
Yes, no more Escape on the satellites. It makes as much sense as when they took Sirius Pops to online only too.
If they are limited on bandwidth, why not remove the traffic channels?
The traffic channels are there for instant traffic reports in major cities. Newer radios have a feature where you can set your city and at the touch of a button you instantly get the latest report for the city you selected. They also encode them at a very low bitrate to take up smaller space.
I am apparently way out of the demographic. Every time Siruis/XM removes a channel, it is one that I like.
Mighty Karnac predicts … 40’s will go next. Followed by combining 50’s and 60’s into one oldies channel, followed by combining with classic Vinyl. Met Opera channel would go if it wasn’t heavily subsidized. And if they could find some way of eliminating the one remaining classical channel …
BTW, I might believe that if you add the bit rates of all the traffic channels, it would not equal the bit rate of one music channel.