Sirius Satellite Radio Comes to Canada

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.designtechnica.com/article8716.html' target='_blank'>http://news.designtechnica.com/article8716.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Sirius Satellite Radio today revealed details of its line up as it gets ready to launch Sirius Canada broadcasting next month. The line up will consist of 100 channels of programming. Sirius Canada, said Sirius, will have 60 channels of commercial-free rock, pop and classical music and 40 channels of news, sports and entertainment. Highlights of the new programming include 10 Canadian music and information stations such as CBC Radio One and RCI Plus broadcast in both English and French and 30 games of play-by-play NHL coverage per week."</i><br /><br />Well it's about time! Though I'm not too interested in this (I don't spend enough time in my car to warrant it), I know there's a lot of interest from people I've spoken to. Go Sirius!

[randalllewis]

I am not interested in satellite radio either, but I recently purchased a Sirrius unit and home kit for my adult daughter's birthday. She is a Howard Stern fan and "needs" the Sirrius unit beginning in January. The equipment was reasonably priced and easy to set up. It works very well and the sound quality is good. I am not crazy about this propritary hardware. (Can you imagine radio's that only picked up ClearChannel Corp.'s radio stations? Or TV's that only received CBS? or CBC?) Yet that is certainly not unique to the satellite industry. I won't be a customer for either Sirrius or XM because I get music of equally high quality out of car and home systems with my home grown CDs.