All XM music channels now broadcast without commercial interruption. Previously, half of XM's music channels were commercial-free.
New channel additions to XM's music program lineup for 2004 include Highway 16 (XM16), today's top country hits; Fungus (XM53), everything that is punk, including underground, ska, surf and industrial; The Blend (XM25), the best adult contemporary music; and Lucy (XM54), the biggest, most influential songs in alternative history.
XM has commercial-free music specials planned for February featuring a month-long tribute to the most important band in music history, The Beatles. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Fab Four's arrival in the United States, XM will air an ad-free "Forty Hours for Forty Years in February" including "The Beatles A to Z", with commentary by XM's Martin Goldsmith, author of the new book "The Beatles Come to America".
Other February exclusive specials include more than 220 hours of programming celebrating Black History Month, and a week-long celebration beginning today, February 2, of this year's Grammy Awards.
XM's 2004 lineup features a total of 121 channels: 68 commercial-free music channels and 32 news, sports, talk, and variety channels.
XM's monthly subscription rate is $9.99.
- from a PRNewswire Press Release
