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Post by dougray2 on Jan 24, 2009 14:55:45 GMT -5
Same here, cannot get any channels. When I try, I get a mesage that says this channel is unavailable, please try again later.
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Post by wppcproductions on Jan 24, 2009 16:37:01 GMT -5
I have no problem listening to xm today. I'm listening xm via Google desktop .yes the hack job is still there.Mr Zellner did not respond.New ownership alway sucks.FTC and the FCC should of NOT let the merger go through .
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Jan 24, 2009 21:19:23 GMT -5
I'm afraid that FCC, with a Republican majority, did approve the Sirius XM merger last year. (haven't heard about the FTC's role). While I guess that the new Democratic majority on the FCC could revoke the merger, the damage, i'm afraid, has already been done.
The best thing, however, would be for a satellite radio competitor to emerge-then Zellner and his people could not get away with competing only against terrestrial radio as they have been doing since the merger and things would be more likely to improve.
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Post by Dale Latimer on Jan 24, 2009 22:43:38 GMT -5
The best thing, however, would be for a satellite radio competitor to emerge-then Zellner and his people could not get away with competing only against terrestrial radio as they have been doing since the merger and things would be more likely to improve. AT&T announced at the recent Consumer Electronics Show that it is getting into in-car satellite TV and radio, with the initial radio channels coming from Music Choice, which is available on cable and selected Internet providers, as well as wireless providers AT&T and Sprint. Several of the Music Choice channels have periodic hosted programs. If there is a falling out between SXM and Premiere, and I really believe SXM is trying to bring such about, Music Choice might be an alternative Premiere would want to consider. Unless, of course, they'd rather just place the old shows on their sister site, clearchannelmusic.com, much like Dees did with his shows at his site. |
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Post by coldcardinal on Jan 25, 2009 12:04:04 GMT -5
Today's show = 1/19/85. A rerun from last year.
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Post by dougray2 on Jan 25, 2009 13:56:08 GMT -5
Once again, the 80s show is unedited. That means whoever is in charge at SXM 70s is doing the editing.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 26, 2009 12:36:03 GMT -5
Hmmm....I'm still not getting it - I'll try again later. I'm glad they repeat the shows on Sunday mornings. Also on Sunday at midnight (technically Monday morning). Though I heard this week's show on Saturday afternoon, I recorded the midnight show for relistening at work during the week. |
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Post by pizzzzza on Jan 29, 2009 9:57:28 GMT -5
Is anyone else noticing a sound quality difference on Sirius XM lately?
Last night, it was like listening to mono being broadcast in stereo - it sounded like you were listening to half the song in the background - or turning off one of the speakers of a stereo.
Today, it sounds like you're listening out of a pipe - lower kbps?
I don't know if it's me or not.....
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Post by Dale Latimer on Jan 29, 2009 20:42:30 GMT -5
It doesn't make sense that XM-Sirius is making these edits-Totally unnecessary!-I wish Premiere would consider airing the four-hour shows that originally ran from 10/7/78 to 12/22/79-Do they own those shows? Of course they do, but they market the 70s shows (at least to terrestrial radio) as THREE-hour programs. They actually tried editing down the post-Sep'78 shows when the 70s repeats were first syndicated in 2006, but much as we're b!tching about the XM edits, terrestrial listeners griped about the edited-down four-hour shows. It's obviously easier to market these shows as "The 70s" and "The 80s" than as "1970-78" and "1978-88", only because not every station to which they are or would be marketed plays both decades. |
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Post by pizzzzza on Jan 31, 2009 12:00:52 GMT -5
SXM is playing January 31 1976 today...
EDITED TO ADD - Oh yea, it's pretty chopped up today.
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Post by dadetim on Jan 31, 2009 23:42:25 GMT -5
even to the point of talking about simon and garfunkel as an extra....but not playing the sounds of silence (which was the extra...the number 1 song from "10 years ago")...went straight into the intro to david bowie's golden years at #30...aggravating....LEAVE OUR COUNTDOWNS ALONE SXM!!!!!!
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Post by vto66 on Feb 1, 2009 1:23:34 GMT -5
even to the point of talking about simon and garfunkel as an extra....but not playing the sounds of silence (which was the extra...the number 1 song from "10 years ago")...went straight into the intro to david bowie's golden years at #30...aggravating....LEAVE OUR COUNTDOWNS ALONE SXM!!!!!! Agreed!!! It's almost as bad as when SXM cut the English/German remix of Nena's "99 Luftballons" out of their broadcast of AT40's 1984 year-end countdown. And what was the deal with that outro to "Baby Face?" It sounded like somebody doing a silly impersonation of Al Jolson or WC Fields or someone like that. I did find it quite amusing, though, but then again, I would associate that sort of thing with, say, Shadoe Stevens or Rick Dees more than Casey Kasem. |
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Post by pizzzzza on Feb 1, 2009 12:06:51 GMT -5
SXM 80s is playing January 25 1986...
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Post by mkarns on Feb 2, 2009 11:22:11 GMT -5
SXM 80s is playing January 25 1986... Hmm... I recorded the 8 PM 80s broadcast, and it was 1/19/85, the same one as they ran last week (and only two weeks apart from what Premiere ran.) Was that by mistake? |
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Post by mkarns on Feb 2, 2009 11:29:24 GMT -5
even to the point of talking about simon and garfunkel as an extra....but not playing the sounds of silence (which was the extra...the number 1 song from "10 years ago")...went straight into the intro to david bowie's golden years at #30...aggravating....LEAVE OUR COUNTDOWNS ALONE SXM!!!!!! I don't hugely mind leaving out some of the jingles and such, but that was a pretty egregious error. If they're going to cut the extra song, then they shouldn't run the teaser story directly related to it. What is the point of including the story otherwise? (BTW, XM did include "The Sounds of Silence" in last week's broadcast from 1971, when it was the #1 song from five years earlier.) As to "Baby Face", this reminded me of the 1987 broadcast when Casey joined in the fade of the Miami Sound Machine's "Falling In Love" and joked, "Now you know why I don't sing." |
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