FloydNo5

I too would be willing to pay for access to more BBC content. As for your question about BBC America, it's not generally a standard channel but where it ends up depends largely on your satellite or cable provider. For example, my cable provider does not provide it as a basic offering, but when I buy an expanded tier for some ever changing number of dollars per month I get it along with 100 other channels, most of which offer nothing I care to watch. However, were I to switch to DirecTV satellite service (a move I'm considering) I'd get BBC America on the basic tier. So, to answer your question, it is usually a subscription service here, but it's mixed in with so many other channels it's hard to wrap your head around how much you really pay for it - though as I said, many of the channels on those other tiers are not worth watching anyway. Sadly, there is no a la carte option.

Thanks! I'm glad to be here. I did sort of a loop trip, so I didn't get to stay in any one place for too long, but I plan to return and hopefully take it slower in the future. I started in Edinburgh for a few days, went from there to Glencoe via Stirling, spent a day/night on Mull/Iona, a few days on Skye, went up to Orkney for several days (stayed in Stromness) and then took the ferry to Aberdeen and made my way back to Edinburgh where I hopped a train to London for a day before flying home. I know I missed huge swaths of the country that I'd love to visit and as I said, I plan to be back sometime because there was more than one place I wished I could've stayed longer.

There is. The one (I think there are several) I "liked" has over 1000 members in the first 24 hrs. If you go to the SiriusXM facebook page and click to show "Most recent" for the wall instead of Sirius posts, you'll see the cavalcade of complaints. Page after page of us disgruntled types telling them to bring Radio 1 back. Many have adopted a green BBC Radio 1 logo with some scrawled text on it, so it makes it very easy to see the level of discontent.

I called to cancel the internet player portion of my subscription to Sirius yesterday (sadly I'm stuck otherwise as I have a lifetime account for my actual radio unit) and was told that due to the volume of calls, complaints, emails and so on that they have top management looking into resolving the contract issues with the BBC and hope to have it back as soon as possible. They then gave me 2 free months to ride this out (as if I care much for the other stations on Sirius all that much) and told me that I'd be informed when it was back on the air. This is much better than the copy/paste boilerplate reply they gave to my email missive I sent yesterday AM. (I am waiting for a reply to my follow up message calling them out for ignoring my first email as I'd pre-emptively addressed their poor excuses in that original email). Here's hoping it's back soon - but in the meantime thank goodness for the iPlayer! If I could just get that in my car for the commute I'd be golden!

Hello, I'm here to get my fix since SiriusXM dropped Radio 1 recently. Been listening for a couple years now after I got hooked during a 2 week trip to Scotland.