With today’s channel update, Sirius has changed the names of some of the stations. PRI is now Talk, BBC News is now News, and BBC Mundo is now Spanish News. With these being the three channels that are controlled by Public Radio International(BBC News/Mundo are distributed in the United States by PRI), could this signal an end to a Sirius/PRI agreement? NPR has an exclusive agreement that runs until February 2007, so no fears about if they are leaving for another 6 months, but will PRI be disappearing off the airwaves soon? We are currently working on finding out when the agreement with PRI ends.

The other issue is if this will include World Cafe, currently on Sirius Disorder // 24. The program is broadcasted from WXPN/Philadelphia and is a strong music program.

EDIT: This should not affect Radio 1, because that is distributed to Sirius directly through the BBC, and not through PRI as BBC News and BBC Mundo are.

Update: I just realized that PRI ends its fiscal year on June 30th(I helped set up a PRI station). While Sirius may not necessarily be on the same schedule, it is a fairly large coincidence that the station names ‘go generic’ with less than 2 weeks to go until the end of PRI’s fiscal year. Stay tuned.

Thanks to the members of SiriusBackstage.com for pointing this out today!

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Posted by BenDee on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 5:12 pm.
Filed in Programming, Sirius.
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