NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM today
announced its holiday music lineup featuring eight commercial-free
channels celebrating the festive season.
SiriusXM's holiday music channels will offer listeners a variety
of traditional holiday songs, classical Christmas carols, country
Christmas classics, contemporary holiday tunes, soul music,
Hanukkah music and Latin seasonal
music.
SiriusXM's commercial-free holiday music channels will be
available on multiple satellite radio channels, and via the
SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smartphones and other connected
devices and online at siriusxm.com
SiriusXM's holiday channel lineup features:
Holiday Traditions (via satellite on Sirius channel 147 and
XM channel 73)
will feature traditional holiday music from
the '40s through the '60s by artists such as Andy Williams, Ray
Conniff, Bing Crosby and Nat "King" Cole.
Tuesday, November 11 at 12:00 pm ET- Wednesday,
December 31 at 3:00 am ET
Holly (via satellite on channel 17)
will feature
contemporary holiday music as well as traditional favorites,
including songs by Idina Menzel,
Kelly Clarkson, Josh Groban,
Michael Buble, Mariah Carey, Trans-Siberian Orchestra,
Colbie Caillat, Whitney Houston and the cast of
Pentatonix.
Tuesday, November 11 at 12:00 pm ET- Wednesday,
December 31 at 3:00 am ET
Holly is also a year round online channel, on channel 781.
http://www.siriusxm.com/hollyonline.
Holiday Pops (via satellite on channel 76)
will
feature classical Christmas carols and other holiday favorites by
the greatest classical musicians of all-time, including the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir, Boston Pops, Luciano Pavarotti, The New York
Philharmonic, King's College Choir and Thomas Hampson.
Wednesday, December 24 at 12:00 pm ET- Friday,
December 26 at 3:00 am ET
Country Christmas (via satellite on channel 58)
will
feature a mix of country Christmas music from contemporary artists
as well as classic country artists, including Garth Brooks, Carrie
Underwood and Lady Antebellum.
Tuesday, December 2 at 12:00 pm ET- Friday,
December 26 at 3:00 am ET
Navidad (SiriusXM channel 785)
will feature
contemporary Latin holiday music and with traditional classics,
including Jose Feliciano,
Willie Colon, Gloria Estefan, Marco
Antonio Solis, El Gran Combo and Thalia.
Tuesday, December 2 at 12:00 pm ET- Wednesday,
January 7 at 3:00 am ET
Holiday Soul (via satellite on channel 49)
will
feature classic soul and Motown holiday music from the '60s and
'70s as well as R&B from the '80s and '90s including
Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Michael
Jackson, Luther Vandross,
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles,
Dionne Warwick, The Four Tops, The
Supremes, The O'Jays, James Brown,
The Temptations, Lou Rawls and
Toni Braxton.
Friday, December 19 at 12:00 pm ET - Friday,
December 26 at 3:00 am ET
Radio Hanukkah (via satellite
on channel 68)
will feature a wide variety of Hanukkah music including contemporary,
traditional and children's Hanukkah
classics.
Tuesday, December
16 at 12:00 pm ET-
Thursday, December 25 at 3:00 am ET
New Year's Nation (via satellite on channel
3)
is the ultimate soundtrack to New Year's Eve parties around the country and
will feature the biggest, upbeat party hits from genres across
SiriusXM's music platform.
Wednesday, December 31 at
12:00 pm ET – Friday, January 2 at 3:00
am ET
For more information about additional holiday programming,
please visit www.siriusxm.com/holiday.
For more information on SiriusXM, please visit
www.siriusxm.com.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the world's largest
radio broadcaster measured by revenue and has 26.7 million
subscribers. SiriusXM creates and broadcasts commercial-free
music; premier sports talk and live events; comedy; news; exclusive
talk and entertainment; and the most comprehensive Latin music,
sports and talk programming in radio. SiriusXM is available in
vehicles from every major car company in the U.S. and from
retailers nationwide as well as at shop.siriusxm.com. SiriusXM
programming is available through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App
for smartphones and other connected devices as well as online at
siriusxm.com. SiriusXM also provides premium traffic, weather, data
and information services for subscribers in cars, trucks, RVs,
boats and aircraft through SiriusXM Traffic™, SiriusXM Travel Link,
NavTraffic®, NavWeather™, SiriusXM Aviation, SiriusXM Marine™,
Sirius Marine Weather, XMWX
Aviation™, and XMWX Marine™. SiriusXM holds a minority
interest in SiriusXM Canada which has more than 2 million
subscribers.
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