Sirius/XM never seems to publicize these things--either before or after the fact--but after the seasonal clock adjustments, it is apparent that Sirius/XM has dropped its former practice of using the PRI feed on Sirius-subscribed radios and the Americas stream on XM-subscribed radios. It is now using the Americas stream for both the Sirius-subscribed and XM-subscribed services at channel 118. The PRI stream is now heard only on PRI member stations, either in part on public radio primary channels or in whole on some PRI secondary HD digital channels (e.g. Vermont Public Radio's VPR-HD3). The differences in the streams are not as marked as they once were, but the PRI stream still has a somewhat greater focus on hard news programming even with the obvious reduction in "feature" programming on the World Service overall.
For those using wifi/internet radios, the "direct from the BBC" available streams are the UK stream, an "all-news" stream and the West and Central Africa stream. Other geographical streams can be accessed indirectly via BBC-affiliated stations around the world. Campus FM in Malta, Altid Nyheter in Norway, Raadio Tallin in Estonia are three such affiliates that carry the Europe stream at times, for example. ABC NewsRadio in Australia carries the Australasia stream at times. All the BBC stream schedules, except for the "all news" stream, are downloadable from the BBC World Service web site. The PRI stream schedule is downloadable from the PRI web site. John Figliozzi Halfmoon, NY _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
