Sirius XM Love

SiriusXM Love is a music channel that plays love songs from soft-AC artists and airs on Sirius XM Radio, and Dish Network. It airs on channel 17 on Sirius XM Radio. On XM, it replaced former channel The Heart on November 12, 2008. On Sirius XM Canada, the channel retains the old Sirius Love name, Until February 9, 2010, it was heard on DirecTV channel 819.

From 2009-2014, Sirius XM Love was pre-empted annually during the Christmas season and replaced with "Holly," a seasonal format devoted to contemporary pop Christmas music. This format change typically occurred during the first two weeks of November and continued until the end of the year. (Holly is also available year round through Sirius XM's online service.), In 2015, Holly pre-empted Sirius XM's Velvet instead, allowing Sirius XM Love to retain its normal format through December.

On May 22, 2015, Sirius XM Love became a limited-run James Taylor Channel.

Selected Artists Played

Celine Dion
Lionel Richie
Whitney Houston
Gloria Estefan
Luther Vandross
Bryan Adams
Mariah Carey
Kenny G.

Sirius XM Holdings

Sirius XM Holdings is an American broadcasting company that provides three satellite radio services operating in the United States, Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius XM Radio. The company also has a Canadian subsidiary called Sirius XM Canada, an affiliate company that provides Sirius and XM service in Canada. At the end of 2013, Sirius reorganized their corporate structure, which made Sirius XM Radio Inc. a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. Sirius XM Radio was formed after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Holding, Inc. by Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. on July 29, 2008, 17 months after the companies first proposed the merger. The merger brought the combined companies a total of more than 18.5 million subscribers based on current subscriber numbers on the date of merging. The deal was valued at $3.3 billion, not including debt. Through Q4 2015, Sirius XM has 29.6 million subscribers.