Sirius Channel Changes on June 24th

[hugh]

When you turn your Sirius radio on Tuesday June 24th, it may need 2 - 5 minutes to receive updates from our satellites. During the update, the audio you hear may not match what is shown on your display and you may see messages such as "updating channels" on your radio’s display.

While the changes are being updated to your radio, it is recommended that you not change channels since this will delay the update from completing. The upgrade will affect some existing channel numbers, so you may need to update your presets.

Link to new US Channel Guide (.pdf)

[hugh]

Channel Changes

[Sniper18]

Supper shuffle is moving over to SIR only? that sucks.

[Kieran]

Since Sirius USA is doing this huge channel update and renumbering, I can only assume this is the date that Sirius Canada will update their units too?

Looking forward to the new channels....

[denben73]

Unless I'm misunderstanding Kieran's post, is there any chance that the channel names will finally get updated?

[denben73]

Well, the channel names did change afterall. There are a lot of "Programming not available" (note sure of the exact wording) messages in the play-by-play sports area. There is a channel 223 (or was it 233) titled "Barker" with the same message as above. There are a few more music channels and more talk channels.

My only complaint: The Weather Network on 138 still sounds terrible. Actually, terrible is a compliment. We talk of AM radio quality sometimes but, TWN is even worse.

No U.S. traffic channels though.

[FLACer]

Based on the addition of the new Canadian Sports Express channel on channel 97, the following nine US channels have been added to the Canadian satellite lineup:

29 - Punk
50 - Hot Jamz
68 - Praise
92 - Rumbon
113 - Specialty
135 - NPR Talk
144 - Sirius Patroit
146 - Sirius Left
160 - EWTN

[FootandMouth]

Why would we lose Super Shuffle, It was'nt really a great Shuffle but it was better than nothing, can you bring it back please.

[FLACer]

Originally Posted by FootandMouth

Why would we lose Super Shuffle, It was'nt really a great Shuffle but it was better than nothing, can you bring it back please.

It didn't go away completely, they just took it off the satellite lineup and moved it exclusively to the online lineup. I realize that if you don't have a Stiletto (or an S50 for that matter) than there's a problem with being able to receive it all the time, but it's still better than nothing. Besides, I think they'll probably move it back to the satellite lineup after the E Street Radio channel run finally ends in 2009.

[HDTVOakville]

My Sportster 5 updated correctly on its own - however, my old Streamer would not play the new channels until I called Sirius to have them "hit" it individually. It now works fine.

[Professor Frink]

The update hit my Starmate less than a minute after I turned it on this morning. No apparent problems.

[Silent_Sound]

I received the update this morning as soon as I powered on my car. However, after the update the channels they were suppose to move I.E. 34-->38.
34 is the new channel, but I don't even have 38 or 39. Then I read that we were suppose to get 10 new channels as well. None of which show up on my unit
Anyone else have this problem? Did you have to call and have them re-send the update to your unit?

[ksk223]

I noticed after the changes took effect my replay time buffer went from ~1:14:00 to 1:22:00. An extra 8 minutes of replay. Has anyone else noticed that? Maybe they beamed some more memory down into our units!

[stalbert1]

My unit downloaded fine this morning, now however 98 hardcores sports isnt working. 97 is still OK though.

[Silent_Sound]

Originally Posted by Silent_Sound

I received the update this morning as soon as I powered on my car. However, after the update the channels they were suppose to move I.E. 34-->38.
34 is the new channel, but I don't even have 38 or 39. Then I read that we were suppose to get 10 new channels as well. None of which show up on my unit
Anyone else have this problem? Did you have to call and have them re-send the update to your unit?

I called them and they said that updates were happening all day, although I did ask them to resend the update to my unit and it worked fine there after.