Features of the XM Radio

XM Radio provides over 150 programs that include music, sports and

entertainment, traffic and weather channels.



The music area has the largest number of channels. Here are 68 music channels
that you can enjoy and where you can listen to your favorite music whether is
from the 60s, the 90s or it’s the new released music. There are
music-by-the-decade channels that include the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
songs which are mostly pop/rock outlets, the Top 20 channel, Love Songs, Movie
Soundtracks, Show Tunes, MTV, VH1, and a Global hits channel. For those you
prefer new music there is the Unsigned channel and the XMU channel. The last one
can be compared to a college station. If you are a jazz fan, XM offers you live
music from the Blue Note club and the B.B. King Club in New York City.



There are entertainment shows on XM radio hosted by Tom Perry, Snoop Dog or
Quincy Jones. Comedy shows may be found on the High Voltage channel where shock
jocks Opie and Anthony do their job now uncensored. In totally, XM has three
comedy channels including a family comedy channel. Beside these, there are more
radio channels like Playboy Radio and Public Radio hosted by Bob Edwards which
includes a line of NPR shows that you can enjoy whenever you like.



If you are a sports fanatic you can choose from a good variety of channel
dedicated to sports that are provided by XM radio. This includes college
football and basketball, NASCAR and Major League Baseball. You can easily listen
to the Bowl Championship Series to find out which team is going to the next
level, the NCAA Division I football champion.



With a subscription from XM, you will have 38 channels of sports, news and talk
channels. For example, ABC News & Talk, BBC World Service, CNBC, Court TV,
C-Span, CNN, CNN Headline News, Discovery Channel, E Entertainment, two ESPN
channels, Fox News, NASCAR Racing are a few talk station to which you can
listen. Local weather and traffic channels are provided too and in totally, they
are 22 channels.



Sound clearance depends on the subscription you have. If you have satellite
radio from XM, the sound has more quality than the one from Sirius, but still
you can’t say that is the same as a CD. You can say that the sound is somewhere
between the sound of a CD and AM radio. Hopefully, in the years that will come,
the sound quality will improve.



As this technology appeared so did a new line of hardware that can match
people’s desires.

And XM has new things to offer like the Delphi XM MyFi which is a small
receiver, actually the smallest in the world that can include up to five yours
of XM content to which you can listen anywhere you like. Another is the Delphi
SkyFi2 which has a TiVo-like 30-Minute Replay feature so, you can rewind, push
the pause button or just play it forward to hear music, news or anything else
you stored on the it. This equipments are also produced by Sony, Alpine, Pioneer
and of course others.