I emailed them about the possibility of them getting on satellite radio. Bryan actually emailed me back. It got me thinking that I should set up some simple website and a gmail account where I could collect emails from listeners and then maybe present them to Sirius and XM in hopes of it getting picked up. Let me know if you think I should set up some sort of blog and actually pursue this.
Hi Tim - Unfortunately the chances of us getting on satellite radio is slim. The space available on their satellites is limited -- they can only carry a finite number of channels -- and right now both services are basically "full". If they wanted to put us up there, they would have to kick off an existing channel.
Lee Abrams, director of programming for XM satellite radio, blogged about us the other day and pretty much sums it up:
On Friday, WOXY, an adventurous online channel closed down. As in the case of any channel that ceases to exist, we are inundated with emails from the fans hoping that XM will pick up the channel. We'd love to look at that, but we have no spare bandwidth right now, and our priorities would likely be to resurrect channels like Music Lab, Special X and On The Rocks that have been sent to online only because of bandwidth issues. We also need to improve our own channels that target the WOXY fan. The thing about the emails is that it's real difficult for the fans to send enough of them to reach critical mass, and the emails tend to be pasted from the website, along with the occasional "You guys are idiots, if you don't pick up this channel you are dumber than I thought" types which aren't very effective. My advice for any channel would be to have a central person that collects the fan input and then presents the case in a businesslike way to XM. Much more effective than the scattershot email torture. In any case, I hope WOXY is able to stay around. We need channels like this in the current new media mix.
http://leeabrams.blogspot.com/2006/09/n ... r-day.htmlThanks for your thoughts.
Cheers - bryan
