Satellite radio is great for the most part. Although they can be as repetitive as terrestrial radio there is a lot more variety in the programming. In the last week however, they have taken my favorite channel off the air and made it Internet only. This would be channel 80, "The Move." It's the deeper and more soulful house channel as compared to the other ones (BPM is more peak hour house and club and The System is just god awful Tiesto until you barf). I realize it may not be the most popular format, but it was a really nice mix of house, even if many of the blogs and forums said it was "too soulful" and missed the more tech-minimal tracks. I know this is really awful, but an African-American friend of mine said this about house music; "Theres another thing white people got their hands on and ruined."
What I know is that satellite only has so much bandwidth so in essence, The Move was taken off the air to make bandwidth available for either the "30 Days of Coldplay" or the "3 Months of Kenny Chesney" shows that debuted, I kid you not. If you look at channel 80, it says "Currently Off The Air" and nothing is in that spot so they didn't put something in its place, just utilized the bandwidth it had somewhere else for one of those 2 fine shows (and I was already bitter at the disappointing new Coldplay album. Pretty soon satellite will be no better then terrestrial now that they have the monopoly, and I was originally all for it. If they take off Opie and Anthony that might be the final straw.
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