- Escape (XM)
Infobox Radio Station
name = Escape
area =United States Canada
branding =
slogan = "An Escape Into Tranquility"
airdate =April 17, 2006
frequency = XM78 (XM)
format = Beautiful Music
owner =XM Satellite Radio
class = Internet Radio StationEscape is an
XM Satellite Radio available onXM channel 78 and DirecTV channel 820 [ [http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/comparePackages.jsp?tab=1&assetId=500012 DirecTV channel list] . Retrieved on2007-10-12 ] . XM describes the channel as "Easy, Instrumental and vocal favorites and the great popular melodies popular over the last sixty years" and primarily airs artists who received airtime in the 50s-70s. Escape plays abeautiful music format featuring music from such artists asAndy Williams ,Henry Mancini ,Chet Atkins ,Anne Murray ,Bert Kaempfert ,Neil Diamond , andPercy Faith . The program director for Escape is Marlin Taylor.XM had previously featured the beautiful music format on Sunny, channel 24. In early 2006, the Sunny channel, programmed by
Clear Channel Communications , changed formats and started airing commercial interruptions as the result of an arbitration settlement with Clear Channel. Due to the format change of Sunny and the commercial interruptions, XM created the XM Escape channel in a commercial-free and enhanced "beautiful music" format that is much more instrumental than the old Sunny channel was before its format change.References
External links
* [http://www.xmradio.com/onxm/channelpage.xmc?ch=78 XM Escape Website]
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