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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sirius Broadcast specific features

By Karri Owens


Sirius Satellite Radio has a lot more than 150 channels available with the subscription that they provide. This includes 65 commercial-free music channels and 56 sports, news, talk, entertainment, local traffic and weather channels.

Music channels appear to be numberless, but unfortunately they aren't even tough there are plenty of music stations that please everyone no matter what gender of songs they likes. So, there are country music channels that include New Country, Classic Country, Alternative Country and Bluegrass. For hip-hop lovers, Sirius satellite radio has 4 channels: Hip-Hop Nation, Shade 45, Wax and Back Spin and never to mention the other streams where you're ears will probably be delighted with house, club mixes, electronic a, disco, R&B, reggae instead of to forget rock(classic, alternative, mellow, metal, blues) music. For classical tastes, you can find three channels: classical pops, chamber music and classical voices. But if you are a jazz type of person you are able to relax by turning the air on one of the six-channels of non-stop jazz.

There lots of music programs that are hosted by international and national artist like Eminem, David Johansen Steve Van Zant, the Rolling Stone's producer who is able to be listen on the Underground Garage channel.

Sirius includes a beautiful collection of uncensored comedy that's available to you. You only have to tune into Sirius's stream Raw Dog which you could listen to George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Cheech and Chong, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock

In the sports area, Sirius Radio includes a terrific collection of channels and only enumerating those takes a lot of time. But here is a sum-up: the NBA, the NFL and the NHL. And besides this, Sirius would like to bring to you tournaments of men's basketball games, the lineup of 27 college hoops programs and also the Division I Men's Basketball Championship but for the ones who love cars, in 2007 they will have the possibility to listen to all NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, NASCAR Busch Series, and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races.

Besides entertainment, Sirius carries a series of news and talk channels: ABC News & Talk, BBC World Service, BBC Mundo, Bloomberg, CNBC, Court TV, C-Span, CNN Headline News, Discovery Channel, E Entertainment, two ESPN channels, Fox News, Hispanic Talk, Radio Disney, Sirius Trucking Network, the next thunderstorm Channel, the liberal network Air America plus more. Besides this, it also features a gay/lesbian news and talk station.

Apparently Sirius tries to satisfy as many demands they're able to, judging by the wide variety of programs. Inside them for hours all of these advantages, Sirius is a really determined challenger for that XM.

In comparison with the XM, the Sirius satellite radio has less quality in sound and also the XM's stereo separation is wider. So, many of us hope for improvement.

In terms of gadgets, XM has more technology than Sirius radio. There won't be any MyFi's, but instead Sirius has the XACT XTR1 that is a limited portable version of the MyFi. And Sirius has no turners with TiVo-like features because equipments provided by XM. There are manufacturers like Alpine, Audiovox, Blaupunkt, Clarion, Delphi, Jensen, JVC, Kenwood, Sanyo, and Tivoli that produce Sirius hardware.




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