GD Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio

marye

Posted: August 1, 2007 - 9:50am

Our own dgans is a programming consultant for the new channel!

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GD Channel Test Drive August 1-9

On August 1st, 2007 marye said:

(dgans posted this in his blog - ME)

The Sirius Satellite Radio GD Channel “test drive” went live at noon EDT on Jam_On Channel 17.

We led off with a totally uncirculated tape from the GD Vault: 5/3/77.

This concert will be repeated eat least once during the nine-day run. I believe the plan is to play four complete shows each day.

I’ve been a busy boy, getting material ready. There are 18 live concerts, some of which are commercially available but most of which are unreleased shows. And other treats, including:

“This Week in Grateful Dead History” with David Lemieux, this week featuring a nice piece of 8/4/71 at Terminal Island in San Pedro CA.
Two interviews with David Nelson. One is the story of the writing of “Friend of the Devil” and how it was originally meant to be a New Riders song but became a Grateful Dead song; the other is David’s wonderful story of how the New Riders of the Purple Sage came to be. “Jerry wants to be a sideman!”
A new interview with Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay and two unreleased studio tracks by Donna Jean and the Tricksters
An October 1989 interview with Bob Weir by Bonnie Simmons, portions of which were used on an Arista Records interview disc to promote Built to Last but most of which you’re hearing here for the first time.
And more…

If you’re not already a Sirius subscriber, visit siriusradio.com for info on how to hear it. The “sneak preview” runs from now through August 9, and the GD channel itself launches later this month.

I am loving this preview so

On August 1st, 2007 neddles said:

I am loving this preview so far!
I have had Sirius for a year and a half and I've been thinking, "if they can have a Rolling Stones channel, why not GD!!
It's like having ALL dead and dead related material in a giant ipod shuffle!
Except when they're playing entire shows 4 times a day or interviews!!
mmm, mmmm, good!
go here for details and a free preview:
http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=FlexContent&cid=1179774750879
:^D

wow...

On August 2nd, 2007 neddles said:

I guess there aren't very many heads out there with Sirius!
'Tis a shame I tell ye!
You guys are missing some seriously great music... great mixing up the tunes and the eras!
Tune in if you can!
go here for a complete up to date playlist:
http://www.dogstarradio.com/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=17&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=

Not Sirius yet

On August 2nd, 2007 Hal R said:

But I may be if Neddles keeps telling me how great it is. I hope you get a %.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman-Song of Myself

hehe..

On August 3rd, 2007 neddles said:

yeah, you'd think I was a stockholder or something!
But no, I just can't get over how freakin' cool it is that after 40 years of little or no airplay on radio, the Dead now have their own whole station! 24/7!
I got into my car this morning and they were playing 4/16/78! What a great show...
A killer Estimated into one of the fastest Eyes I've ever heard!
mmm mmm good!

Too bad they didn't do a

On August 3rd, 2007 hwkn said:

Too bad they didn't do a deal w/XM instead of Sirius since the GDH was already on XM.Iguess those of us w/XM are out of luck[i'm not switching].

If the stupid government

On August 3rd, 2007 neddles said:

If the stupid government would let the xm/sirius merger go through then you wouldn't have to switch!
How is it that they let Rupert Murdoch buy up the Wall Street Journal with out even lifting an eyebrow, but they have their panties in a bunch over satellite radio???
sheesh...

We XM subscribers have been screwed

On August 3rd, 2007 GADEADHEAD said:

I don't know if Ganz just doesn't give a crap about us or if he is just in his own little world, but a lot of Heads (including myself) went with XM instead of Sirous because we could catch the GD hour on XM. Now, out of the blue, they have simply cut us off and switched everything to Sirious. There are discussions to merge the two. Why on earth would they pull the plug now and not just ride it out until a merger? I'll tell you why - IT'S CALLED GREED! What ever happened to the montra that once the band is done with the music, it is the fans'. Needless to say, I am pissed. I'll just have to wait for the vampires to figure out another way to take my money from me. Have they hired Mickey's Dad to organizde this?
OK, OK I'll stop now before I say something I'll regret.

Peace -

Don't blame me

On August 3rd, 2007 dgans said:

It wasn't my idea to leave XM. When Rhino made their deal with Sirius, I was required to take the GD Hour off XM. I was also hired by Sirius to consult on their GD channel, which is good for me and all that but doesn't do the XM people any good. Eventually they'll merge and we'll all have the best of both worlds. Until then, I am sorry for abandoning you but I swear it ain't my fault.

GD Hour blog
Station list

Anti-trust Law

On August 3rd, 2007 paisley said:

...shall we go, you and I while we can...

The federal anti-trust statute says that 4 (or fewer) companies controlling more than 50% of a market constitutes a monopoly that is not legal. This is the hold-up on the merger between Sirius and XM. Ironically, niether stock is doing all that well. The most probable outcome here is that the FCC approves the merger and a federal district court hears arguments on the approval of the merger. Since Warner Bros. (the parent company of Rhino), wishes to "join" Sirius in other projects, involving the satellite transmission of feature films into your neighborhood theater, for example, Warners may acquire both companies and represent them as a "multimedia delivery system" to avoid the monopoly issue. Then, these two entities cease to be "radio stations" (already a misnomer) and are simply companies which so;d their satellite bandwidth to Warner's along with some programming(or not). The Dead Channel would certianly remain, but reorganization like this allows for the dissolution of the separate companies and the renegotiation of all their contracts (like Howard Stern's,for instance). Under this senario, look for the price of "satellite radio" to drop dramatically and potentially to be free sooner or later. Meanwhile it's 13.95 a month, and portable. The iPod analogy is quite correct.Also there is stream capturing technology available if you wish to record from this media.