Changes to DirecTV music channels
Patty Winter
removed or changed. I went looking for information, and as
I suspected, it's because of the XM/Sirius merger:
http://directv.com/musicchanges
In most cases, channels seem to have been replaced with
similar formats, presumably ones that were originally on
Sirius, even though they now have "XM" in their names.
However, the movie music channel (Cinemagic) has become
a Christmas channel; I don't know whether we'll get it
back in January. :-( And a bunch of channels have just
plain disappeared.
Patty
Steve Kohlreiter
They completely dropped High Standards, Frank Sinatra type music and
didn't replace it with a similar type station. Very dissapointing.
Steve
Kimba W Lion
>However, the movie music channel (Cinemagic) has become
>a Christmas channel; I don't know whether we'll get it
>back in January.
It'll be back. They do this every year. Usually they take away 3 channels for
Christmas music. I guess since Sirius Classical Pops features (too much) movie
music, they figured Cinemagic could go away for a while.
Bill R
A lot of DirecTV customers are very unhappy with the changes (due to
Siries and XM becoming one). DirecTV is planning on adding some
channels from another audio service soon. Check out channels 870, 873,
877 and 878. On Wednesday they were listed as DMX channels (a package
that a lot on cable companies carry) but now they are listed as SONC.
--
Bill R.
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Kimba W Lion
>They completely dropped High Standards, Frank Sinatra type music and
>didn't replace it with a similar type station. Very dissapointing.
Sirius XM replaced High Standards with Siriusly Sinatra. Don't they include
that on DirecTV? I have Dish, and it's there.
Patty Winter
In article <csmth4hj411t324p2...@4ax.com>,
Kimba W Lion <kimbawlion> wrote:
>pat...@sonic.net (Patty Winter) wrote:
>
>>However, the movie music channel (Cinemagic) has become
>>a Christmas channel; I don't know whether we'll get it
>>back in January.
>
>It'll be back. They do this every year. Usually they take away 3 channels for
>Christmas music.
Okay. I liked it better when DirecTV used MusicChoice and had
a dedicated holiday channel. It ran nondescript pop music at
other times. But the nifty thing about it was that it covered
*lots* of holidays, not just Christmas. Now we no longer get
St. Pat's Day, Hallowe'en, etc. music. :-( Besides Christmas,
the only other holiday I recall that gets recognized on the
DirecTV XM channels is Independence Day, and I'm not even
sure that any of the channels that program for it do so nonstop
for the entire day.
>I guess since Sirius Classical Pops features (too much) movie
>music, they figured Cinemagic could go away for a while.
I'll check out the Pops channel for movie scores--although I
agree with you that there shouldn't be much movie music there.
Maybe an occasional John Williams piece. :-)
Patty
Dr. Personality
<pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
> Okay. I liked it better when DirecTV used MusicChoice and had
> a dedicated holiday channel.
What Patty Said.
The loss of MusicChoice was another Murdoch-era atrocity.
Patty Winter
In article <491edc4c$0$7730$d94e...@news.iglou.com>,
Bill R <nospam_...@iglou.com> wrote:
[earlier text deleted]
> DirecTV is planning on adding some
>channels from another audio service soon. Check out channels 870, 873,
>877 and 878. On Wednesday they were listed as DMX channels (a package
>that a lot on cable companies carry) but now they are listed as SONC.
You must get more satellites than I do. Those channels don't appear
in my guide.
Patty
jack ak
Tom
"Kimba W Lion" <kimbawlion@> wrote in message
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Though the channel numbers are not the same on DTV, here is a link from the
Sirius website on this year's Holiday musical offerings and the dates they
will be offered: http://www.sirius.com/holiday
Hope this helps--BTW, "Holly" is channel 822 and is already up and running.
jack ak
For DirecTV there doesn't seem to be a "Classical Pops" channel...
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P5030006
Four "Sonic X" channels...
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/search/searchResults.jsp?_requestid=1104681
You may have to enter sonic sonic in the search box.
Note the repetition. The web page search is faulty.
Steve Kohlreiter
Nope they did not include Sirisusly Sinatra
Kimba W Lion
>For DirecTV there doesn't seem to be a "Classical Pops" channel...
>
>http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P5030006
Yes, there is: 866. But it will go away for a month so they can play even more
Christmas music. (I like the Sirius page where it says they will have
Christmas music sung by the Boston Pops.)
jack ak
DirecTV channel 866 was "XM Pops", now is "XM Sirius XM Pops".
XM Classics (ch 864) is now XM Symphony Hall.
Note the absence of Sirius in the new name.
I don't see "Classical Pops" in old or new names.
Sirius has a channel 79 named "Sirius XM Pops".
Look here:
http://www.sirius.com/siriusxmpops
and
Patty Winter
In article <ivm0i45n45tcrdo4a...@4ax.com>,
Kimba W Lion <kimbawlion> wrote:
>
>Christmas music sung by the Boston Pops.)
Then you'll enjoy DirecTV's description of the "Holly" channel
on this page:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/packProg/channelChart2.jsp?assetId=1200006
Umm, guys, some of the channels changed *formats,* not just names...
Patty
Bill
There uses to be good stuff on XM.
Not any more.
Kimba W Lion
>Some good channels bowed down to Sirius. Guess they have the bigger ones!
Sirius bought XM, despite the popular use of the word "merger" for the
transaction.
Kimba W Lion
>Then you'll enjoy DirecTV's description of the "Holly" channel
>on this page:
That is good. Or maybe they intend to play the soundtrack to the Star Wars
Christmas Special...?
Kimba W Lion
>I don't see "Classical Pops" in old or new names.
Yes, I did make an error in the proper name of the channel, but it's a rather
fine distinction you're trying to make. The Pops channel was always considered
to be part of the classical music offerings, both before and after the channel
changes.
Patty Winter
In article <v8h1i4lrnd2lgi9tq...@4ax.com>,
Kimba W Lion <kimbawlion> wrote:
:-)
And the soundtracks to "It's a Wonderful Life," "Holiday Inn,"
"The Santa Clause," etc.? Hey, actually, we may be on to something
here! Unfortunately, I don't think the Sirius/XM folks had that
in mind.
Patty
Patty Winter
In article <G32Uk.65112$kh2....@bignews3.bellsouth.net>,
Bill <bar...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Patty wrote:
>>
>> Umm, guys, some of the channels changed *formats,* not just names...
>>
>Some good channels bowed down to Sirius. Guess they have the bigger ones!.
>There uses to be good stuff on XM.
>Not any more.
The DirecTV page I cited in the posting you quoted has nothing to do
with whose channels are better. The channel description is a search-
and-replace mistake, plain and simple.
Patty
do...@67.usenet.us.com
> I just noticed that some of DTV's music channels have been
> removed or changed. I went looking for information, and as
I find these channels to be too tightly segmented. I can't locate one that
I want to listen to for very long, although if I could do some mix and
match, it might work.
I'd like an XM-shuffle.
Maybe on the coincidental ending of a song on two channels in a selected
group, you would switch to the other channel in your hunt group.
--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
Bill
Guess they have a different taste in music.
So much for my next XM radio subscription.
"Kimba W Lion" <kimbawlion@> wrote in message
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SAC 441
dish (10 foot BUD) working all these years.I will just switch over to
listening to DMX (Digital Music Express) on my 4DTV Motorola GI DC2
receiver.
It is a superior slate of music channels in my opinion anyway and there
are NO DJ's or self promotion ads to bother with.
Mel Karmazin (CEO of Sirius and now Sirius XM)
sure looks like he is going out of his way to ruin this
service(s).Enough said.
Kimba W Lion
>I'd like an XM-shuffle.
Both XM and Sirius had a channel like that, and both channels got dumped.
I don't think the execs in charge now even listen to radio at all.