SiriusXM Programming

Roxanne Shante's real name is Lolita Gooden. And speaking of names, isn't Have A Nice Day a ridiculous name for a hip-hop music program? Yes. Yes, it is.

Hip-hop pioneer Roxanne Shante to launch new show on LL Cool J's Rock The Bells Radio

Hip-hop pioneer Roxanne Shante will host a new two-hour daily show exclusively on LL Cool J's Rock The Bells Radio on SiriusXM. Have A Nice Day with Roxanne Shante featuring DJ Sylk will introduce listeners to hip-hop history while providing an entertaining take on today's biggest popular culture headlines, covering classic moments and current events in hip-hop and more.

Have A Nice Day with Roxanne premieres at 4 PM ET Monday, October on Rock The Bells Radio. SiriusXM subscribers can listen to Rock The Bells Radio (channel 43) on SiriusXM radios and those with streaming access can listen online or with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...300724513.html

Tom Petty died October 2, 2017. Can't SiriusXM find a better name for his program than the now-morbid Buried Treasure?

Three 'new' episodes of Tom Petty's Buried Treasure show to premiere on SiriusXM
Los Angeles Times, Oct 18 2018 5:00 AMs

Long before Tom Petty became one of rock’s biggest stars, he was one of the music’s biggest fans, a characteristic that came to the fore in recent years on his weekly satellite radio show Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure on SiriusXM Channnel 31. Fans of the program will get a belated gift from the musician in the form of three "new" episodes, which Petty recorded before he died last year at age 66. In the episodes, Petty discusses the differences between the US and UK versions of early Beatles albums, his love of Chuck Berry and his thoughts on the Monkees and lead singer Micky Dolenz, among other wide-ranging topics.

The episodes were recorded in November 2016, ahead of a 40th anniversary tour, and rediscovered in December by Petty’s longtime recording engineer Ryan Ulyate. The first episode is scheduled to premiere at 2 PM Pacific time Saturday, October 20 on Tom Petty Radio, SiriusXM Channel 31. The second and third will premiere in the same time slot on November 19 and December 17. The shows will be repeated throughout each month.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...018-story.html

"Suwannee Hulaween" must be a Creole phrase meaning "Who the heck are these people?"

SiriusXM announces Suwannee Hulaween 2018 broadcasts

SiriusXM will broadcast live sets, interviews and more from the 2018 Suwannee Hulaween music festival in Live Oak, Florida. The annual event returns to the Spirit Of The Suwannee Music Park from Friday, October 26 to Sunday, October 28.

Ari Fink will host SiriusXM’s Suwannee Hulaween coverage which will air on SiriusXM’s Jam On Channel (29). Among the acts on this year’s performance lineup are The String Cheese Incident, ODESZA, Jamiroquai, Janelle Monáe, Bustle In Your Hedgerow, The Revivalists, Vulfpeck, STS9, Gramatik, Lettuce, Trampled By Turtles, Stephen Marley, Dr. Dog, Medeski Martin & Wood, Mavis Staples, The Wood Brothers, Galactic, The Polish Ambassador & The Diplomatic Scandal, Yonder Mountain String Band, Turkuaz, SunSquabi and Jennifer Hartswick & Nick Cassarino. Broadcasts begin Friday, October 26 at 12 pm ET.

https://www.jambase.com/article/siri...018-broadcasts

Here, for your amazement and amusement, is the Sirius channel guide from 2005. Remember StarLite, Movin' Easy, Super Shuffle, Buzzsaw, Area 33 and Martha Stewart Living Radio?

http://www.radio-sirius.com/Sirius-Channel-Guide/

Here is today's press release from Sirius XM. If you want to have some fun, see how quickly you can count the number of times "SiriusXM" is mentioned:

SiriusXM presents live concert lineup on New Year's Eve

SiriusXM announced today that it will broadcast exclusive concerts, DJ sets and special performances live on New Year's Eve. SiriusXM's New Year's Eve live concert lineup includes:

Post Malone at Barclays Center – airing on SiriusXM's Hip Hop Nation
Phish at Madison Square Garden – airing live on SiriusXM's Phish Radio
Lynyrd Skynyrd at WinStar World Casino and Resort– airing live on SiriusXM's Classic Vinyl
Willie Nelson at ACL Live at the Moody Theater – airing live on SiriusXM's Willie's Roadhouse
Countdown NYE featuring Afrojack, Tiësto, Dillon Francis and more in San Bernardino, California – airing live on SiriusXM's Diplo's Revolution
Nathaniel Rateliff at the Grand Ole Opry House – airing live on SiriusXM's The Spectrum
Sevendust in Atlanta, Georgia – airing live on SiriusXM's Turbo
Margo Price at the Music Hall of Williamsburg – airing live on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country
AJR at the Hammerstein Ballroom – airing on SiriusXM's Alt Nation
John Prine at the Grand Ole Opry House – airing on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes at the Count Basie Theatre — airing live on SiriusXM's E Street Radio
Galantis at Aragon Ballroom – airing live on SiriusXM's BPM
Rick Springfield at the Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino – airing live on SiriusXM's '80s on 8

KISS wants to "rock and roll all nite" -- and SiriusXM wants to give us another payola channel. Oh, excuse me, SiriusXM calls them "single-artist channels." Here is the press release:

KISS Army Radio launches February 4 on SiriusXM

SiriusXM announced today that legendary rock band KISS will perform an intimate invitation-only show for SiriusXM subscribers and VIPs on Monday, February 11 at thefamed Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The exclusive performance will air on Tuesday, February 12 at 5 PM ET on KISS' exclusive limited-run SiriusXM channel, KISS Army Radio, channel 30, and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com. The concert will also air on Howard Stern's Howard 101 channel on Friday, February 15 at 9 PM ET.

KISS Army Radio will showcase music from KISS' 45-year career including stadium anthems, rarities and live tracks. The channel will also feature exclusive stories and insights from Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. Additionally, listeners will hear music from other artists who opened for KISS throughout their career including AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Alice In Chains, Cheap Trick and more. KISS Army Radio will launch on Monday, February 4 at 5 PM ET via satellite on channel 30 and will run through Sunday, February 17.

Since 2006, Eric Church has had 13 top-ten country singles and seven top-ten country albums. His hits include Talladega, Springsteen, Wrecking Ball, Record Year and Drink In My Hand. Here is today's press release from SiriusXM -- and I will resist the urge to make a bad "Church service" pun:

Eric Church live Ccncerts to broadcast exclusively on SiriusXM's The Highway channel

SiriusXM announced today that The Highway channel will exclusively broadcast four live concerts from nine-time CMA and ACM Award winner Eric Church's Double Down tour:

TD Garden in Boston, February 1
Target Center in Minneapolis, February 8
Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, February 15
US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, February 22

SiriusXM's live broadcasts from Eric Church's concerts will air every Friday in February at 8 PM local time via satellite on channel 56 and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.

This is from RadioInsight.com, February 21. ChillHop? Cloud Rap? Classic Rock BBQ? Does SiriusXM have an Executive Vice President In Charge Of Coming Up With Dumb Names?

SiriusXM adds 100+ new streaming playlists

SiriusXM has followed its purchase of Pandora with the addition of Pandora-like playlists built as sub-brands of their existing channels. The 100+ new "Xtra Channels" are gradually being rolled out to different internet devices and are currently available on the SiriusXM website and its iOS and Android apps. The channels feature Pandora-like features such as skipping and limited imaging but no personalities and like all of SiriusXM's music channels are commercial-free.

The channels are mostly branded as sub-brands of other SiriusXM music channels with content mostly self-explanatory with names such as Hits1 Discovery, '80s On 8 Workout, Pop2K Top 100, Classic Rock BBQ, '90s On 9 Dance and Prime Country Party. Some of the playlists not attached to other channels include Prom Radio, '90s Rock & Hip-Hop Mash Up, Yoga, ChillHop and Cloud Rap.

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/1...ing-playlists/

Here is a February 28 SiriusXM press release -- and "Mardi Gras" sounds so much nicer in French than in English ( "Fat Tuesday").

Hear jazz, soul & funk sounds on limited-run Mardi Gras Radio channel

If you're not headed to the Big Easy for Mardi Gras this year, fear not! SiriusXM is bringing the sounds of New Orleans to you with the limited-edition Mardi Gras Radio, Channel 67.

Celebrate the sounds that give the Crescent City so much character, including jazz, funk andp soul songs by Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, the Neville Brothers, Trombone Shorty, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Dr. John.

This year, SiriusXM is honoring the legendary New Orleans composer Allen Toussaint with the world premiere of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra's upcoming album Song: The Music of Allen Toussaint, set to be released on March 29, as well as Crescent City clarinet player Michael White's latest album, Tricentennial Rag.

Tune in to Mardi Gras Radio starting Saturday, March 2 at 9 AM through Wednesday, March 6 at 9 AM ET. SiriusXM subscribers with streaming access can listen online, on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Go to www.SiriusXM.com/streaming to learn more.

This story was on AllAccess.com yesterday -- and I should have posted it yesterday but I didn't see it until today. Does saying "Better late than never" sound trite?

Trisha Yearwood to host weekly show on SiriusXM

Country star Trisha Yearwood has signed on to host a weekly show on SiriusXM. Trisha's Café, which debuts today, March 4, can be heard at 5 PM ET on The Garth Channel (Ch. 55), which is curated by Yearwood's husband Garth Brooks

THE Grammy-winning Yearwood is author of three bestselling cook books and host of the Emmy-winning Food Network hit Trisha's Southern Kitchen. Her SiriuXM show will combine her loves of food and music. Each week the show will feature five songs, billed as the "appetizer, today's special, main course, cocktail and dessert." Yearwood will choose the first four songs and the fifth song, the "dessert," will be chosen by a fan. Listeners will hear music from established stars and upcoming performers from both pop and country music.

The weekly show will rebroadcast on Wednesdays at 1 PM, Fridays at 9 AM, Saturdays at 3 PM and Sundays at 8 PM(all times ET). In addition to SiriusXM radios, the show can be heard via the SiriusXM mobile app and on a wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa, Apple TVB, PlayStation, Roku, Sonosspeakers and more. Those with SiriusXM streaming access can also listen online.

In a $3.5 billion all-stock transaction, SiriusXM bought streaming service Pandora in September 2018 and the deal was finalized on February 1. Venus just moved from channel 3 to online channel 303. A new channel, Pandora Now, will launch on channel 3 at 2 PM Eastern time April 4.

https://m.siriusxm.com/venus

The format of the new Pandora NOW channel is current hits and "trending songs." Here is what was played in the first hour, alphabetized for your convenience. Chart positions are included for songs that are on this week's Billboard Hot 100.

SiriusXM Satellite Radio
Channel 3 - Pandora NOW

Bad Liar - Imagine Dragons (56)
Be Like Me - Lil Pump/Lil Wayne
Happier - Marshmello/Bastille (6)
I Am Who They Say - NBA YoungBoy/Kevin Gates/Quando Rondo
I Can't Get Enough - Benny Blanco/Tainy/Selena Gomez/J Balvin (85)
I Wanna Know - NOTD/Bea Miller
Last Hurrah - Bebe Rexha (98)
Mine - Bazzi
Please Me - Cardi B/Bruno Mars (5)
Robbery - Juice WRLD (37)
Put A Date On It - Yo Gotti/Lil Baby (46)
Shallow - Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper (10)
Sicko Mode - Travis Scott (18)
Sweet But Psycho - Ava Max (20)
Talk - Khalid (40)
Thank U, Next - Ariana Grande (21)
Undecided - Chris Brown (91)
Who Do You Love - Chainsmokers/5 Seconds Of Summer (52)
Wow - Post Malone (2)
7 Rings - Ariana Grande (1)

Variety has an article about the new channel:

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/...ow-1203180594/

A countdown of the top 500 songs of the 1980s will begin at noon Eastern time April 5 on SiriusXM Channel 30 and run continuously until April 15 when the 1990s top 500 countdown begins (and will run through April 24). What fun! We'll first hear all the big hits by Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Phil Collins and Hall & Oates.....and then come the '90s with R. Kelly, Puff Daddy, 2Pac, Michael Bolton, The Notorious B.I.G. and Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony. Gak!

Billboard partners with SiriusXM for '80s & '90s pop-up channel countdowns

https://www.billboard.com/articles/c...nel-countdowns

This is from RadioInsight.com, April 16 -- and who knew SiriusXM had an "ecosystem"?

SiriusXM talk shows head to Pandora as podcasts

The integration of Pandora into SiriusXM's ecosystem has taken another step forward as content from SiriusXM's spoken word channels will come to Pandora in podcast form. The podcasts will vary from full-length episodes of shows to best-of segments. It follows the launch of Pandora NOW as a playlist/station hybrid on both services and bringing Pandora-like playlists to SiriusXM app subscribers since the SiriusXM acquisition of Pandora was completed a few months ago.

The full list of shows included are:

Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Interviews
Larry The Cable Guy Weekly Roundup
Ricky Gervais Is Deadly Sirius
Straight From The Hart with Kevin Hart
Unmasked with Ron Bennington
A Comic Mind hosted by Jeff Foxworthy
Andy Cohen Deep & Shallow Interviews
Sway In The Morning
Jenny McCarthy's Celebrity Dirt
Debatable with Mark Goodman & Alan Light
Feedback with Nik Carter & Lori Majewski
Jeff Lewis Rants
The Hoda Show
Reality Checked: News & Feuds with Amy Phillips
The Jason Ellis Show
Entertainment Weekly Celebrity Spotlight
Michelle Collins Pops The Question
Joel Osteen Radio
Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk
Busted Open
Mad Dog Unleashed
Schein On Sports

RadioInsight columnist Sean Ross does not seem to be overly impressed with Pandora NOW but he acknowledges it's a great channel for 18-year-olds who want to hear unedited current hits while they're driving.

First listen: SiriusXM's Pandora NOW

https://radioinsight.com/ross/176089...s-pandora-now/

Free Bird Radio, the Lynyrd Skynyrd channel, has returned to SiriusXM channel 30 and will run through May 23.

https://www.ajc.com/blog/music/lynyr...ENLLiZthMcYqK/

Here is a small sample of what's being played on the limited-run Free Bird channel.

SiriusXM Channel 30 – Free Bird

All Summer Long - Kid Rock (23/2008)
Back Where You Belong - 38 Special (20/1984)
Born To Boogie - Hank Williams Jr. (--/1987)
Don't Ask Me No Questions - Lynyrd Skynyrd (--/1973)
Every Mother's Son - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1976)
Floyd - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/2009)
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (19/1974)
Gimme Back My Bullets - Lynyrd Skynyrd (--/1976)
God & Guns - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/2009)
Highway Song - Blackfoot (26/1979)
Hillbilly Blues - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1994)
Hold On Loosely - 38 Special (27/1981)
I Need You - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1974)
Jacksonville Kid - Lynyrd Skynyrd (UR/1977, LP/2000)
Jessica (Instr.) - Allman Brothers Band (65/1974)
Keep On Smilin' - Wet Willie (10/1974)
Look At Little Sister - Stevie Ray Vaughan (--/1985)
Made In The Shade - Lynyrd Skynyrd (B/1975)
Mama (Afraid To Say Goodbye) - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1991)
O.R.R. - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1997)
One More Time - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1977)
One Way Out - Allman Brothers Band (86/1962)
Railroad Song (Live) - Lynyrd Skynyrd (UR/1975, LP/1999)
Remedy - Black Crowes (48/1992)
Somehow Somewhere Someway - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band (--/1997)
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (8/1974)
That's How I Like It - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/2003)
Things Goin' On - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1973)
Tube Snake Boogie - ZZ Top (103/1981)
Up On Cripple Creek - The Band (25/1969)
What's Your Name (Live) - Lynyrd Skynyrd (UR/2018)
Whiskey Man - Molly Hatchet (--/1979)
Workin' - Lynyrd Skynyrd (LP/1999)

On May 1, the limited-run Prom Radio channel will return to SiriusXM Spotlight, channel 4. It's billed as "musical memories of proms from the '80s, '90s and beyond." Yeah, what could be more romantic than slow-dancing to BLACKstreet's No Diggity, right?

Tomorrow, May 15, SiriusXM Spotlight channel 4 will begin a countdown of the top 1,000 country songs of all time. I wonder if the countdown will include Gene Autry, Jimmie Rodgers, Emmett Miller, Eck Robertson, Riley Puckett, Vernon Dalhart, Fiddlin' John Carson, Pappy O'Daniel, the Carter Family, Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers, Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers and other artists of the 1920s and '30s. Probably not.

https://www.siriusxm.com/ltdengagements2/weeklyschedule

Three country songs each spent 21 weeks at number one: Eddy Arnold's I'll Hold You In My Heart (1947), Hank Snow's I'm Moving On (1950) and Webb Pierce's In The Jailhose Now (1955) – so which of those was the number-one song on SiriusXM's just-concluded Top 1000 Country Countdown? None of them. Number one was Garth Brooks' Friends In Low Places, which topped the chart for four weeks in 1990. No fair! Number two was Patsy Cline's Crazy and #3 was Dolly Parton's 1982 remake of her 1974 hit I Will Always Love You. No fair!