XM 167 was just on with Rachel. Now they keep saying they are currently off the air.

[madfloridian]

They have done this a lot this week during that time.

What is going on?

[peace13]

1. Is she on vacation?

Her TV show had subs this week.

[madfloridian]

3. The whole thing is off air...just a voice saying they are off air.

May have been a repeat, but now there is nothing on the channel, and it is her hour.

:shrug:

I switched to one of the music channels.

It has been that way since the merger

[PBS Poll-435]

2. Consolidating the XM and Sirius stations

A lot of weird outages and mistakes on program/song/artist descriptions

[nosillies]

4. It's been on every time for me

But I'm too lazy to go outside and check right now.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. They take it off for "Special Programming" they're doing on another channel.

I don't know the physics involved, but I suspect it has to do with bandwidth availability on the satellites. I have written (and didn't get a response) and complained that they seem to take off "Radio Left" but every time I check "Radio Right" is still on the air. It's especially annoying since they only have ONE progressive station and several with RW idiots, including Fox.

It also happens every weekend during football season. Shoot them an email.

[madfloridian]

6. But there is nothing on but that voice.

And it is only supposed to be on Saturdays...the preemptions.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. They don't use channel 167 for the "Special Programming", it's elsewhere.

They need the equipment for the other programming. Why, I hear you asking, if you can hear the announcement over and over, can't they just put on the programming?

I don't know.

[Berry Cool]

8. I got no clue. My display says "Returns 6 pm EST." Which is dumb, because it's past 7.

They say they will return to their schedule "shortly." Makes no sense to me.

[doc03]

9. Same here I am discontinuing my XM next bill n/t