Fox Business Dropped From Sirius XM Radio
The channel lineup is still receiving some tweaking and this time XM subscribers lost the Fox Business Channel. The Fox Business channel is somewhat newer, and not as well established as its brethren CNBC and Bloomberg.
This is not the first time Fox has made the news with regard to satellite radio. For a period of time, the Fox News channel was dropped from Sirius as negotiations between Sirius and Fox did not come to common ground. During that period, XM touted the fact that they had Fox News and in addition added other Fox programming to their line-up. Ultimately, Mel Karmazin negotiated a deal with Fox that was not only less expensive for Sirius, but for XM as well.
Karmazin, as part of his agreement with Fox, did not carry the other Fox channels. Thus, it is no surprise that the merged company would trim programming such as this. With CNBC and Bloomberg having larger audiences, the move seems to make business sense. The move was effective December 27th, and has not had the same level of “uproar” from subscribers as the merged channel line-up did.
Position – Long Sirius XM
I sincerely hopw that Sirus will rethink any decision to drop Fox radio, business or audiio of the TV. Fox is one of the main reasons I liten to Sirius and the loss of these would mean that I probably would cancel my subscription
both my wife and i are very disappointed in your decision to cancel the fox news talk channel. we have been listening to local talk radio stations to fill the void {apart from listening to the fox news channel}.we are considering canceling both are subscriptions when are contracts are up.
Fox news has been number one for at least a decade now. Not mention the fact that several reporters have left the left winged media accusing them of holding back certain stories and forcing them to report on untrue stories. One of them has even started her own media outlet.
In short, if satellite continues to remove right winged media … I will take my cash and walk away. I will not stay with any entity that censors any political side. this I believe is what Sirius in in the process of doing by removing Fox one step at a time.
BE sure that I will cancel my subscription if you do any more canceling of conservative shows. I really enjoyed being able to listen to Fox business news, the main reason I signed on to Sirius. This is pathetic and sad. What is our country coming to?……
I drive extensively and listen to Fox News quite often on my Sirius radio. As a matter of principal I intend on discontinuing my subscription to Sirius if indeed the Fox News Channel is dropped.
Dropped XM from 2 cars. I hope they go out of business the anti american communists bxtards.
I don’t want to pee in anyone’s cornflakes but SiriusXM doesn’t want to pull Fox from its channels, if given the choice they’d much rather keep them onboard. The problem is the cost. So, if you want Fox to stay on SiriusXM I’d suggest everyone complain to Fox for charging too much for their content 😉
if fox goes i goes,,got it?