History of Sirius Patriot
SIRIUS Patriot was initially launched in July 2004 as a companion to the now defunct SIRIUS Right, which was dropped in 2006 in favor of the Fox News Talk channel. Patriot launched with a lineup that makes the channel unrecognizable from today. The complete lineup included Geoff Metcalf, Laura Ingraham, Bob Dornan, Cam & Company from NRA News, Joseph Farah’s Worldnet Daily, Michael Reagan, and The Pentagon Channel overnights. The following year, Sirius added exclusive hosts Mike Church to late mornings and Andrew Wilkow to afternoons. Cam & Company was moved to nights.
In 2006 and 2007, the Patriot lineup underwent many changes as sister conservative talk channels Sirius Right and ABC News & Talk were deleted. The channel added Bill Bennett's Morning in America program to mornings after Sirius Right was removed. Patriot absorbed both Sean Hannity and Mark Levin from the loss of the ABC channel and cleared both live, which forced Andrew Wilkow to move his live show to mid-days and eventually removed Michael Reagan from the lineup when Levin's show expanded to three hours.
Sirius Canada added the channel in the summer of 2008 (along with the now-defunct Hot Jamz and SIRIUS Left). The channel did not join the XM Satellite Radio lineup on November 12, 2008, like many Sirius channels.
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