SiriusXM shuffles channels

SiriusXM's new schedule starts Wednesday with most channels moving to new numbers and a few exceptions. For example, Howard Stern's two stations, Howard 100 and Howard 101, are still on channels 100 and 101, respectively.

Top-40 station SiriusXM Hits 1, which was previously on XM 1 and Sirius 2, is now just on channel 2. Martha Stewart Living Radio, Oprah Radio, Hair Nation, Pearl Jam Radio, Playboy Radio, Shade 45, Radio Disney and more than a hundred other stations also have new, unified dial positions now.

For the stations that have moved, SiriusXM says that presets "should automatically 'follow' any channels that you’ve preset to their new locations." If you still can't find the channels you want, the company has posted a guide to their new channel lineup.


The 21-year-old singer has recently been added to the 2011 CMA Music Festival lineup. Taylor will be giving the closing performance to the summer music festival held in Nashville, Tenn.

Things are looking up all over. Sirius just reported that they had a great quarter thanks to new car sales. They are up 118% new subscribers from Q1 2010 and hit 20 million subscribers, up 2 million from the same period last year.

Sirius XM is a holding in exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking the consumer-discretionary sector as well as ETFs following the mid-cap segment of the U.S. market. The stock is a relatively minor holding and the funds followed the major stock indexes lower Tuesday.