From xmfan.com: XM will devote four of its digital radio channels to holiday music beginning Thanksgiving Day, November 25 at 8:00 am ET. Each channel will feature a different style of holiday music without commercial interruption 24 hours a day through December 27: * XM's beautiful-music channel Sunny (XM Channel 24) will play traditional and orchestral holiday classics by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and other favorites. * The Heart (XM Channel 23) will be renamed Holly during the holidays, and feature contemporary music of the season from artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, and the Jackson 5. * The country channel Nashville (XM Channel 11) will offer a "Music City Christmas," playing holiday tunes from country artists of today and yesterday, including Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Tammy Wynette, and Jim Reeves. * Special X-Mas (XM Channel 83) will serve up a mix of holiday novelty songs, oddball parodies, and rock covers of holiday classics. Special X-Mas will air in place of the disco channel Chrome. The holiday music channels and Chrome will broadcast through the holidays on XM's Internet radio service XM Radio Online, and all of the channels will return to regular programming after the holidays. In addition to these four dedicated channels, several of XM's more than 130 digital radio channels will mix seasonal music and specials into their regular line-up of programming. As an aside, in previous years they ran the holiday programming until January 1st - I wonder why they're ending it early this year. Enjoy your holiday season with XM! -m.
Agreed. On the way to Ohio for Thanksgiving, we have to deal with cds for christmas music to get in the mood - but after that, the trip home is great with xm This will be my first year of having xm at work for christmas, so it should be nice! -m.
Has anybody else been listening to the "Special X" (aka 83 Chrome) station this season? The off-color Holiday tunes are great. Where else would you hear RuPaul singing "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus"? One of my favorites so far is the "12 Things At Christmas (That Really Bother Me)". It's hysterical! ("FIVE--MONTHS-OF-BILLS!"). The only downside is that since the Toyota XM song title display is limited to only the first 10 characters, almost EVERY single song is displayed as "Christmas ". I never realized how many holiday tunes start with the word Christmas! Mark
