Road Dog Trucking
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Sirius XM Radio | |
History | |
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First air date | 2001 |
Technical information | |
Class | Satellite radio |
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Website | siriusxm |
Road Dog Trucking is a truckers' talk radio channel on the
History
Road Dog Trucking (Sirius)
In 2003, Sirius launched its dedicated truckers channel Sirius Trucking Network. It retained the name until March 2006, when the channel was renamed Road Dog Trucking.
Open Road (XM)
Open Road launched on XM with personnel from America's Trucking Radio network, including
Prior to October 2007, the overnights were filled with non-trucker programming (namely, replays of
Dave Ramsey is still heard on XM 165, but David Lawrence, who had been a part of XM Satellite Radio's lineup since 2002, and at one point even had his own channel with replays all day, was dropped from the service as a whole.
Road Dog Trucking (post-merger)
In January 2009, a merged Sirius XM removed Midnight Trucking Network from the XM service, after having removed it from the Sirius service over a year earlier. Over a month later, it was announced that the two trucking channels would merge into one. The lineup included Dave Nemo, Dale Sommers, Kevin Rutherford,[1] Meredith Ochs, Chris T., Evan Lockridge, Glen Jones, and Mark Reddig. Bill Mack, heard on Open Road mid-days, was moved to Willie's Place to continue his music intensive program, as well as his Sunday Grand Ol' Gospel program. All content heard on Road Dog Trucking is a Sirius XM exclusive product. Sommers died in 2012.
References
- ^ Truck, Let's. "SiriusXM". letstruck.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
External links
- Official website
- DaveNemo.com Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
- LandLineNow.com