It varies from year to year whether we get the Sirius channels included, or just the Dish CD channels. I notice that the Sirius XM Holly channel is mapped down to a two-digit channel number like the other holiday music channels, but Holly is still listed as red in the All Channels list.
In recent years, the Sirius XM holiday music channels have been free. However, there was a time, back when Dish still provided one (seemingly randomly selected) Sirius XM channel for free year-round as the background music on Dish Earth, when we would not get the free previews of the Sirius XM holiday music channels. I guess it was a trade-off: Dish could offer a few Sirius XM channels for free for a couple of months, or one channel for free year-round, but they couldn't do both. Once Dish Earth disappeared, we started getting the free previews of the Sirius XM holiday music channels again, with the possible exception of this year. Before Dish Earth launched, Dish would occasionally do free previews of at least some of the Sirius XM channels, if not all of them, at other times of the year, also. Those free previews never returned. Now, it is either just the holiday music, or no Sirius XM channels at all. It must be a contractual thing between Dish and Sirius XM.
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