You can find the new channel lineup at the link below:

http://www.siriusxm.com/channelupdat...HALIGNMENT2011

XM says that your presets should update automatically if you turn your radio on and leave it on for about 15 to 20 minutes. I had mine on FM this morning when I drove my wife to the subway and I didn't remember about the XM renumbering until after I came back, so I guess I'll see this afternoon whether it works when I go to a doctor appointment. Either way, however, note that if you use the Navi voice-control to operate your XM you'll have to learn the new channel numbers (for me, the biggest one there is the DC traffic station, which is now DC/Baltimore/Atlanta.....putting DC and Baltimore together makes sense, but Atlanta???).

 

oh i hope the auto preset works with our cars ill find out when i leave work today

 

It worked automatically.

After dropping my son off at school with the radio on AM news & an FM variety show, I remembered the switch-over and switched to XM-- the stations had switched automatically. All the presets were bringing in the proper stations, although a few of the channel numbers changed.

 

^^^

sweet

 

Outstanding, thanks for the update. They had said that was supposed to happen but I couldn't help but wondering whether it would be the case only with the dedicated XM receivers like the Roady or Sky-Fi or whatever is on the market these days. Good to hear we don't have to mess with it. I may still stick the channel lineup in the car as a reference for when I invariably forget about the changes.

 

Cool. Only variable left is to see how the wife's CR-V handles it all...

 

Mine re-set with one exception - the traffic station for my area. Anyone know if the traffic stations were dropped?

 

Some of them were dropped as they combined them with other areas (for example, the DC/Baltimore channel is now DC/Baltimore/Atlanta as I mentioned before).

I assume from the info below your avatar that you live in the Phoenix area. The full channel guide available as a .PDF (see link below) says that Phoenix is now on Channel 137, sharing with Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. I assume it will work like DC/Baltimore/Atlanta where they will now tell you that your city will air at specific times. For the DC/Baltimore/Atlanta channel, it's DC "on the 1s" (eg, x:01, x:11, x:21, etc.), Baltimore a few minutes after, and then Atlanta "on the 8s." I suppose it's helpful to know this rather than waiting through the other reports, but it's also frustrating that now the reports will run only every 10 minutes because that's what our local FM station does ("traffic and weather together on the 8s"). While I've never developed the level of confidence with XM's reports that I have with WTOP's, it was nice to be able to tune in the XM report if I knew the WTOP report wouldn't air for another 5 minutes. That advantage is sort of gone now.

What isn't clear is whether they will update the traffic reports more often than they used to. They used to be recorded and looped until there was an update. It's unclear whether that's still going to be the case, but I suspect it will.

Anyway, that's a long way of saying that if your channel was merged into another, the preset will not necessarily update and you'll have to reprogram it yourself. Here is the full list of traffic channels:

132 Boston/Philadelphia/Pittsburgh
133 New York
134 DC/Baltimore/Atlanta
135 Chicago/Detroit
136 Miami/Orlando/Tampa and St. Pete
137 Dallas and Fort Worth/Houston/Phoenix
138 St. Louis/Twin Cities/Las Vegas
139 San Francisco/Seattle/San Diego
140 Los Angeles

Here is the link to the .PDF:

http://www.siriusxm.com/pdf/11-1524_XM_WebLUs_5_4.pdf



(Interestingly, BTW, when I first turned on my XM this afternoon and displayed the "Audio" display, only the channel I had previously had tuned in—Channel 49, whatever it was called—appeared with the corrected number. E Street Radio, for example, still showed as 58 on the preset buttons on the touchscreen, Deep Tracks was still 40, etc. But when I used the steering-wheel button to click through, they all updated. Today the song titles are not generally displaying—instead there is a message saying that whatever used to be on a given channel number has moved to whatever the new number is.)

BTW, I confirmed that the update does not affect the voice control, which I expected because that's independent of the XM. I tried "XM Channel 214," which was the old DC traffic channel, and it brought up the NHL play-by-play channel that moved there (obviously it was just advertising the upcoming games at that point).

 

I printed one out a couple of days ago because I thought I might have to fiddle with the radio after the change-over, so I'll just put that into a compartment and toss out the old channel guide.
Some areas were combined, as 1995hoo said.
I drove up from San Diego last month and listened to Las Vegas traffic being reported on the same channel as San Diego.
Now San Diego is mixed in with San Francisco and Seattle.

 

Thanks for providing this. We (Phoenix) used to have our own channel, then we were combined with San Diego, now its DFW and Houston, it seems.

 

my channels changed automatically

 

Called XM today and read the script and got XM for one year for $77!! Worked like a charm. Lets see if I can do it next year again before it renews at $142/yr.....ugh.. Enjoy it while I have it.