What happened to the Music Choice Channels?

@XturaX - some will say that Stingray (Stinkray?) has more variety.  There are a total of 75 channels plus about 50 more through the app via your remote (Go Interactive).  BUT the quality of the music is horrific.  I'm not sure about the video library as I haven;t watched them since the 1980's.  Isn't there a line in a song "♪and music still on MTV♪?"  There is "1985," lol.

Hear, hear @music4menow.  Amen to all that you wrote.  This isn't the first time that AT&T dropped Music Choice (the industry leader) in favor of "something better."  About 2008, they went with the Urge service which was worse in some ways than Stinkray but better in the good music that they played and not b-sides and poor cover songs.  I'm sure both switches were done to save some money.  A U-Verse manager told me how GREAT the Stinkray service was compared to MC.  He must have been drinking the Korporate Kool-aid.

I know it sucks but they will probably stick with this for a while as the contract goes for at least 3 years and their switching in the first place speaks volumes about where the customer stands in all of this.

the IHEART app plays much better music than stingray...imho

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@shewjr wrote:

the IHEART app plays much better music than stingray...imho

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Yeah, but you get the privledge of listening to all that Station's market commercials too.

Chris
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@mibrnsurg wrote:

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@shewjr wrote:

the IHEART app plays much better music than stingray...imho

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Yeah, but you get the privledge of listening to all that Station's market commercials too.

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Not generally true, Chris.  iHeart and most other streaming content owners strip out the local ads and insert generic iHeart ads in their place.  About 10-12 years ago, actors and voice over talent started filing suit over not being compensated for out of market ads that they were involved with.  SO, most of the local ads are gone but you may still hear the DJ doing promotions and such.  I would prefer local iHeart ads and news over Stinkray, any day.

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@dhascall wrote:

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@mibrnsurg wrote:

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@shewjr wrote:

the IHEART app plays much better music than stingray...imho

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Yeah, but you get the privledge of listening to all that Station's market commercials too.

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Not generally true, Chris.  iHeart and most other streaming content owners strip out the local ads and insert generic iHeart ads in their place.  About 10-12 years ago, actors and voice over talent started filing suit over not being compensated for out of market ads that they were involved with.  SO, most of the local ads are gone but you may still hear the DJ doing promotions and such.  I would prefer local iHeart ads and news over Stinkray, any day.

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I know I was hearing local ads on one of the stations.

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I was very dissapointed when they replaced Music Choice with Stingray, the Easy Listening channel was terrible , nothing like Music Choice. But they have changed the music programming on the Easy Listening channel 5145, and now the music is just as good as Music Choice! They play Beautiful instrumentals now just like Music Choice used to, we are so happy with this change! And also Thank You AT&T for bringing back the Hallmark channel, we will be renewing our yearly contract with you all, we are very happy with the new changes, THANK YOU!!

@ABloom   Probably not renewing any contract unless its changing to DirecTV on a 2 year contract.  Then in the 2d yr, prices go up $30-40/mo.

Retentions not doing anything for current Uverse TV/Internet customers.

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@mibrnsurg wrote:

@ABloom   Probably not renewing any contract unless its changing to DirecTV on a 2 year contract.  Then in the 2d yr, prices go up $30-40/mo.

 

Retentions not doing anything for current Uverse TV/Internet customers.

 

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Chris - you know that post from ABloom was made 7 months ago, right?

Good morning channel 851 smooth jazz I really love smooth jazz @ different times during the day the same music tracks will repeat themselves 2-3 's in 1hour, on certain days it's spot on perfect really jamming great hits and different artist.I would like to know could we keep it less repetitive 

For years I have paid for Cable TV primarily to listen to SOUNDSCAPE. 

Everyday for relaxation. Lo, and behold! Clicked to the channel and got Piano Forte music that seem bent on ripping up the piano keyboards. A continuous succession of these pieces that REALLY exacerbated the migraine headache that I was experiencing.

I phoned your office and left a message and my telephone number. I needed an explanation about what was going on!

HAVEN'T heard from you.

But, I'm glad to see that other people are making their views heard.

Jasmine/Teacher