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Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams ( channels ) of music and 65 streams of sports, news and entertainment to listeners.

Music streams on Sirius carry a wide variety of genres, broadcasting 24 hours daily, commercial-free, and uncensored.

A subset of Sirius music channels is included as part of the Dish Network satellite television service.

Sirius channels are identified by Arbitron with the label " SR " ( e. g. " SR120 ", " SR9 ", " SR17 ").