# Sirius -XM merger bounces my electronic music channel 82 - So pissed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680 "2008-11-14T05:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/1 "2008-11-14T05:59:15Z")
They replaced it with some lame thing called “Area” on channel 80. I’m so pissed. Didn’t think I really cared so much about it till it was gone. It was like an old friend was missing. Seethe. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/2 "2008-11-14T14:16:23Z")
Sirius - XM merger lets **RNATB** listed to Sirius NFL stations - so happy. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/3 "2008-11-14T16:59:29Z")
Howard 100 and 101 intact? Carry on. Joe ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/4 "2008-11-14T17:11:54Z")
Tell me about it, they took down Buzzsaw too. That was one of my favs of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/5 "2008-11-14T17:15:26Z")
And the Old School hip-hop station’s gone, too. Now I have to re-do my presets, dagnabit. Wah! Wah! WAAAAH! Ok, I’m over it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/6 "2008-11-14T17:20:42Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > And the Old School hip-hop station’s gone, too. Now I have to re-do my presets, dagnabit. Wah! Wah! WAAAAH! > > Ok, I’m over it. My car has a factory XM system and it automatically moved my presets to match up with the new channel listing! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/7 "2008-11-14T17:50:25Z")
> [@astro](#): > > They replaced it with some lame thing called “Area” on channel 80. I’m so pissed. Didn’t think I really cared so much about it till it was gone. It was like an old friend was missing. > > Seethe. Yeah, I liked “The System”, myself. I’m not a big fan of “Area”- it just seems kind of… bland, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/8 "2008-11-14T17:55:33Z")
But can you still get CBC Radio 3? That’s the only reason I’d get satellite radio. That, and if they carried Soma FM. Which they probably don’t. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/9 "2008-11-14T18:37:24Z")
I dumped Sirius a year or more ago, after they cut two of the stations which had caused me to purchase their services in the first place: Swing and Standards. They replaced them with “Siriusly Sinatra”, figuring that the only old-time stuff anyone ever listened to was Sinatra, I suppose. I despise the guy, so I gave Sirius the axe. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/10 "2008-11-14T21:28:42Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I dumped Sirius a year or more ago, after they cut two of the stations which had caused me to purchase their services in the first place: Swing and Standards. They replaced them with “Siriusly Sinatra”, figuring that the only old-time stuff anyone ever listened to was Sinatra, I suppose. I despise the guy, so I gave Sirius the axe. They now have “40’s on 4,” an all-1940’s station (as well as an all 90’s station, and not just the “alternative” stuff). By Standards, was that show tunes? because there’s an all-show tune channel too, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/11 "2008-11-14T21:34:39Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > But can you still get CBC Radio 3? That’s the only reason I’d get satellite radio. Yes, it is still on Sirius. I thought it was going to disappear in the November 12 realignment, but it’s stayed on. Long live obscure Canadian music. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/12 "2008-11-14T21:37:34Z")
You think you’re pissed? I bought Sirius stock 6 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/13 "2008-11-14T22:39:49Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > You think you’re pissed? I bought Sirius stock 6 months ago. Try GM stock instead. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/14 "2008-11-15T05:22:31Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I dumped Sirius a year or more ago, after they cut two of the stations which had caused me to purchase their services in the first place: Swing and Standards. They replaced them with “Siriusly Sinatra”, figuring that the only old-time stuff anyone ever listened to was Sinatra, I suppose. I despise the guy, so I gave Sirius the axe. Siriusly Sinatra plays a lot of old standards, it is not just the rat pack ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/15 "2008-11-15T08:08:09Z")
I noticed today that the names of my alt channels, fred, lucy and ethel, all had new names. Seems to be a similar playlist. Kind of. Haven’t been in the car much, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/16 "2008-11-15T13:19:28Z")
Basically, as far as I can tell, XM users got fucked. Why we have to give up everything and Sirius users didn’t really lose anything pisses me off, especially since Sirius had crappier music to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/17 "2008-11-15T13:39:18Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Basically, as far as I can tell, XM users got fucked. Why we have to give up everything and Sirius users didn’t really lose anything pisses me off, especially since Sirius had crappier music to begin with. Sirius users lost Boombox, Punk, Sirius Disorder, The Strobe, Backspin, Super Shuffle, Universo Latino, and Rumbón, among others. Universo Latino and Rumbón have been combined into a single channel called Caliente – XM had 4 channels of Latino and Sirius had 2 and they’ve all been crammed into 1 channel (Caliente) that’s really not very good. Now I have FIVE channels from Canada and ONE channel of Latino music. Backspin was our old-school rap channel and it’s been replaced with a daily one-hour show on Hip Hop Nation. Boombox, one of the electronica channels, is just gone. Super Shuffle, which played more or less everything, is gone too. The Strobe was the disco channel which I won’t miss, cause we don’t really need 2 70s channels. And I don’t know why we need two gospel channels I will say that I really like Pop2K, which is new for us, and I like 90s on 9 and the new Pulse format. And I’m looking forward to the debut of Cinemagic after the holiday music disappears in the new year. We’ve long had a Broadway channel, but I’ve thought we needed a movie channel as well. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/18 "2008-11-15T14:59:59Z")
Super Shuffle is gone? Crap. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/19 "2008-11-15T15:00:11Z")
No more Old Time Radio.☹ ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680/20 "2008-11-15T15:10:41Z")
While I don’t like all of the changes, The System was programmed by the bankrupt Worldspace satellite radio. Even if XM hadn’t done anything, I doubt the System and other Worldspace channels would be around much longer anyway. It is still available on xmradio online. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sirius-xm-merger-bounces-my-electronic-music-channel-82-so-pissed/472680.md?page=2)