XMX (or just X) Channel 2 was a commercial-free,

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station on

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, formerly

XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings. It provided pay-for-service radio, analogous to subscription cable television. Its s ...

. Originally used to remind subscribers of overdue payments, the channel changed to a music format on August 1,

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and featured popular exclusive XM music programming played all day, every day. XMX was discontinued on November 12,

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, as part of the merger of the SIRIUS and XM channel lineups. The channel was directed by Paul Bachmann, who was also regularly found in XM's Classical and Rock neighborhoods in the 2000s.

Programming lineup

*Mondays: Artist Confidential *Tuesdays: Bill Anderson Visits with the Legend *Wednesdays:

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with

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*Thursdays: Tom Petty's Buried Treasure *Fridays: XM All-Stars - Variety of XM's mini-series *Weekends: Studio 2 - Various XM homegrown shows and specials

List of live special events and rebroadcasts

Concert For Diana Concert for Diana was a benefit concert held at the newly built Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday. 31 August that year brought the 10th ann ...

: The concert was rebroadcast on Friday, 2007-08-31 *

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: The entire concert was rebroadcast Saturday, 2007-09-01 through Sunday, 2007-09-02 * Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Festival: The event was broadcast live Sunday, 2007-09-09, and was exclusive to the channel on XM * 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival: Music and interviews from the event were broadcast June 13–15, 2008.

Programming lineup

List of live special events and rebroadcasts

See also