827140_some_radar_and_radio_antennas.jpgSirius is one of the most popular satellite Radio stations. It has 150 channels. Out of which 65 are commercial free channels and other 56 air sports, news, talk, entertainment, weather conditions and traffic report.

They have many music channels, they have New country, classic country, Alternative country, and Bluegrass channels to choose from for the country crazy people. For hip hop lovers they have four channels dedicated to it. They are Hip-Hop Nation, Shade 45, Wax and Back Spin and of course the other streams are not left behind you can enjoy listening to R&B, Reggae and of course Rock. For the people having classical taste there is Classical pop, Chamber Music and Classical voices. For the Jazz enthusiast, they have six channels which play non stop Jazz music.

The satellite radio has lots of Music program that are hosted by international and national artists like Eminem, David Johansen Steve Van Zant, the Rolling Stone producer to name a few. They can be heard on the underground Garage Channel.

They also have dedicated channels for uncensored comedy, where you can listen to George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Cheech and Chong, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock. In the sports channel you have a collection of channel like the NBA, the NFL and the NHL. Beside these regular channels they bring the men’s basket ball games, the 27 college hoop programs and Division I Men’ Basketball championship. For car lovers they have NASCAR, Nextel Cup Series, NASCAR Busch Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races can be heard.

Apart from entertainment, Sirius also has a news and talk channels which are ABC News & Talk, BBC World Service, BBC Mundo, Bloomberg, CNBC, Court TV, C-Span, CNN Headline News, Discovery Channel, E Entertainment, ESPN Channels, Fox News, Hispanic Talk, Radio Disney, Sirius Trucking Network, the Weather Channel, the liberal network Air America to name a few.

Besides this, it also includes a gay/lesbian news and talk station. By giving all these channels Sirius is all out to entertain as many people as possible and it is a determined challenger to XM. The XM is a better as comparison to the quality of sound and the stereo separation. So we shall see some improvement in the near future.

Also, in terms of gadgets, XM is more technological than Sirius. The Sirius has the XACT XRE1 that is a limited portable version of MyFi. Sirius also has no turners with TiVo like features which are available with XM. The companies like Alpine, Audiovox, Blaupunkt, Clarion, Delphi, Jensen, JVC, Kenwood, Sanyo, and Tivoli produce Sirius hardware.