Sirius XM Love
Sirius XM Love[1] is a music channel that plays love songs from soft-AC artists and airs on Sirius XM Radio, and Dish Network. It airs on channel 70 on Sirius XM Radio. On XM, it replaced former channel The Heart on November 12, 2008. On Sirius XM Canada, the channel retained the old Sirius Love name, Until February 9, 2010, Sirius XM Love was on DirecTV channel 819, but all of the Sirius XM programming was dropped in favor of Sonic Tap.
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| Broadcast area | United States Canada |
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| Frequency | Sirius XM Radio 70 Dish Network 6070 |
| First air date | November 12, 2008 |
| Format | Soft AC/Love songs |
| Class | Satellite Radio Station |
| Owner | Sirius XM Radio |
| Website | SiriusXM Love |
From 2009–2014, Sirius XM Love was pre-empted annually during the Christmas season and replaced with "Holly," a seasonal format devoted to contemporary pop Christmas music. This format change typically occurred during the first two weeks of November and continued until the end of the year. (Holly is also available year-round through Sirius XM's online service.) From 2015–2016, Holly pre-empted Sirius XM's Velvet instead.
On May 22, 2015, Sirius XM Love became a limited-run James Taylor Channel. Later, it was the home of Yacht Rock.[2][3]
On August 17, 2017, SiriusXM Love moved to channel 70 and was replaced by PopRocks on Channel 17.[4] For 2018, Love was pre-empted by a different Christmas music channel known as Hallmark Channel Radio—which was hosted by the channel's talent as an extension of its seasonal programming lineup "Countdown to Christmas".[5]
Selected artists played
Gloria Estefan, Luther Vandross, Bryan Adams, Mariah Carey, Kenny G, Barry Manilow, Kelly Clarkson, Bette Midler, Lionel Richie, Pink
References
- Cook, Zachary. "SiriusXM Love- Love Songs". SiriusXM.com. Sirius XM Radio. Retrieved 12 November 2008.
- Cook, Zachary. "James Taylor Channel's exclusive live Apollo show for SiriusXM fans". blog.siriusxm.com. SiriusXM Editors. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
- Williams, Stephen. "Yacht Rock Radio returns for the summer!". blog.siriusxm.com. Sirius XM BLog. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- Venta, Lance (August 16, 2017). "SiriusXM Launches Two New Music Channels". Retrieved August 16, 2017.
- Umstead, R. Thomas (October 23, 2018). "Hallmark Channel to Celebrate Holidays with Branded SiriusXM Channel". Multichannel. Retrieved November 14, 2018.