TheKobra

This is a hot deal if you have a home unit you are currently using. This way you will be able to disconnect it and use your DirectV receiver. I talked about this a few years back on the tivo community. Check your DirecTV receivers for the line-up. I deleted my message that I received on 9/30 so I don't have them.

DirecTV w/ XM Raido

Deftones

Already talked about in the XM/Sirius thread in Other. Good move by both.

Heat

From the link above:
I have one of the para todos packages, I wonder which 7 latin music channels they will add?

And does this really make a difference? That is, is XM going to be that much different from music choice?

spainlinx0

Well you will get Opie and Anthony along with Ron and Fez. I can tivo these guys now so that works great for me.

Y2K Falcon

Is that true? We can't tivo the current music channels...

dentam

Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez aren't on a music channel. They're on an XM talk channel. The original message says that Directv will be offering XM's music channels.

Chad

Sure is.

SIRIUS is on DISH
XM is on DirecTV

Regardless of which service you choose this will help get satellite radio, which blows FM out of the water, more into the mainstream. You'd be surprised at how many people don't even know what satellite radio is.

spainlinx0

It has been announced that they will indeed be part of the package.

Numanoid

I seriously doubt it.

Deftones

No, it's true. You can't tivo music channels. Unless that changes with this announcement, you still won't be able to.

Numanoid

So, then, it isn't true.

Deftones

True. It's not true.

kenbuzz

There's a noticable lack of specificity as to which XM channels will be appearing where on DTV on the two company websites (xmradio.com and directv.com). There's actually more info on DTV Channel 800 about this than on either site. I was happy to see that TopTracks (XM-46) will be coming over, but short of staring at Channel 800 and writing everything down, does anyone have a complete listing of which XM channels are coming over, where they'll be landing, and which packages they'll be included in?

Edit: Someone just emailed a pdf to me with the list. I'll clean it up and post it here shortly.

kenbuzz

Here's the lineup. Share and Enjoy.

XM Channel Lineup on DirecTV
Legend: DTV_Channel = XM_Channel (Name)

TOTAL CHOICE (50 Channels)
==========================
DTV801 = XM-4 (The 40s)
DTV802 = XM-5 (The 50s)
DTV803 = XM-6 (The 60s)
DTV804 = XM-7 (The 70s)
DTV805 = XM-8 (The 80s)
DTV806 = XM-9 (The 90s)
DTV808 = XM-10 (America)
DTV809 = XM-11 (Nashville!)
DTV810 = XM-12 (X Country)
DTV811 = XM-13 (Hank's Place)
DTV812 = XM-14 (Bluegrass Junction)
DTV814 = XM-16 (Highway 16)
DTV816 = XM-20 (20 on 20)
DTV817 = XM-21 (KISS)
DTV818 = XM-22 (MIX)
DTV819 = XM-23 (The Heart)
DTV820 = XM-24 (Sunny)
DTV821 = XM-25 (The Blend)
DTV822 = XM-27 (Cinemagic)
DTV826 = XM-32 (The Fish)
DTV827 = XM-33 (Spirit)
DTV829 = XM-40 (Deep Tracks)
DTV832 = XM-45 (XM Café)
DTV833 = XM-46 (Top Tracks)
DTV834 = XM-47 (Ethel)
DTV835 = XM-48 (Squizz(XL))
DTV836 = XM-50 (The Loft)
DTV838 = XM-54 (Lucy)
DTV841 = XM-60 (Soul Street)
DTV842 = XM-61 (The Flow)
DTV843 = XM-62 (Suite 62)
DTV845 = XM-65 (The Rhyme(XL))
DTV846 = XM-66 (RAW(XL))
DTV847 = XM-67 (The City)
DTV848 = XM-?NEW? (Special X)
DTV850 = XM-70 (Real Jazz)
DTV851 = XM-71 (Watercolors)
DTV852 = XM-72 (Beyond Jazz)
DTV853 = XM-73 (Frank's Place)
DTV854 = XM-74 (Bluesville)
DTV856 = XM-77 (Audio Visions)
DTV858 = XM-80 (The Move)
DTV859 = XM-81 (BPM)
DTV860 = XM-82 (The System)
DTV861 = XM-83 (Chrome)
DTV862 = XM-100 (World Zone)
DTV863 = XM-101 (The Joint)
DTV864 = XM-110 (XM Classics)
DTV865 = XM-112 (VOX)
DTV866 = XM-113 (XM Pops)

TOTAL CHOICE PLUS/TOTAL CHOICE PREMIERE (67 channels)
=====================================================
--All of the above plus--
DTV813 = XM-15 (The Village)
DTV823 = XM-28 (On Broadway)
DTV824 = XM-29 (U-Pop)
DTV825 = XM-?NEW? (Eye)
DTV828 = XM-?NEW? (Enlighten)
DTV830 = XM-41 (Boneyard(XL))
DTV831 = XM-43 (XMU)
DTV837 = XM-51 (XM Music Lab)
DTV839 = XM-44 (Fred)
DTV844 = XM-64 (The Groove)
DTV855 = XM-76 (Fine Tuning)
DTV867 = XM-115 (Radio Disney)
DTV868 = XM-116 (XM Kids)
DTV870 = XM-90 (Alegria)
DTV872 = XM-94 (Caliente)
DTV878 = XM-175 (MLB Home Plate)
DTV879 = XM-202 (High Voltage(XL))

LATIN PACKAGES:

SELECCION EXTRA (7 channels)
============================
DTV870 = XM-90 (Alegria)
DTV871 = XM-92 (Aguila)
DTV872 = XM-94 (Caliente)
DTV873 = XM-95 (Luna)
DTV874 = XM-?NEW? (Latin Programming)
DTV875 = XM-?NEW? (Latin Programming)
DTV876 = XM-?NEW? (Latin Programming)

SELECCION MAS (57 channels)
===========================
all of the TOTAL CHOICE channels (50) + SELECCION EXTRA (7)

SELECCION ULTRA/PREMIER (72 channels)
=====================================
everything listed above

(XL) = May include frequent explicit language

XM Channels *NOT* coming to DirecTV:
====================================
XM-31 Christian (The Torch)
XM-52 Rock (Unsigned)
XM-53 Rock (Fungus)
XM-75 Lifestyle (HearMusic-TM)
XM-102 World (Ngoma)
XM-121 thru XM-134 News
XM-140 thru XM-147 Sports
XM-150 thru XM-151 Comedy
XM-152 thru XM-171 Talk & Entertainment
XM-176 thru XM-199 Sports
XM-200 Talk & Entertianment (XM Live)
XM-204 Sports (24/7 Hockey Talk & Play-by-play)
XM-210 thru XM-247 Traffic & Weather

lewisb73

Pretty good move by the satellite companies, as now they dont have to program the music stations they were currently offering

Although I would have liked to receive the talk channels, so I could hear Ron and Fez again... miss them from their time spent in Florida as the Ron and Ron show

spainlinx0

You are getting the talk channel that Ron and Fez are on. I was wrong about the Tivo part because I had never actually attempted to Tivo music channels, but I know that High Voltage, the station with O&A and R&F, will be on Directv.

Josh H

Only on Total Choice Premeire packages though.

Xander

Man, I hope they still have a Holiday channel at Christmas time. I listened to that all the time.

Y2K Falcon

What? No "Sounds of the Seasons"???

Numanoid

I love the current 814 - Retro-Active ('80s New Wave with lots of fairly obscure stuff). Any of those XM channels similar?

kenbuzz

(splitting_hairs) Actually, it's on TC Plus *and* TC Premiere (/splitting_hairs)

costanza187

That is cool!

Xander

That's what I thought! If you go to DirectTV's channel description guide, it looks like that XM "Special X" channel 848 is being compared to the old "Sounds of the Season" channel, so hopefully we'll get Christmas Music on that.

Chew

Bump to remind everyone this started yesterday.

wildcatlh

4 or 5 of XM's Radio channels every year go to full-time Christmas music starting the day after Thanksgiving. Not year-round, but there's plenty of XMas music there.