SiriusXM Love

SiriusXM Love^[1] is a music channel that plays love songs from soft-AC artists and airs on SiriusXM Radio, and Dish Network. It airs on channel 708 on SiriusXM Radio. On XM, it replaced former channel The Heart on November 12, 2008. On SiriusXM Canada, the channel retained the old Sirius Love name, Until February 9, 2010, SiriusXM Love was on DirecTV channel 819, but all of the SiriusXM programming was dropped in favor of Sonic Tap.

SiriusXM Love

Broadcast area	United States Canada
Frequency	Sirius XM Radio 708 Dish Network 6070
Programming
Format	Soft AC/Love songs
Ownership
Owner	Sirius XM Radio
History
First air date	November 12, 2008
Former frequencies	Sirius XM 17 (2008-2017) Sirius XM 70 (2017-2021)
Technical information
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Links
Website	SiriusXM Love

From 2009–2014, SiriusXM Love was pre-empted annually during the Christmas season and replaced with "Holly," a seasonal format devoted to contemporary pop Christmas music. This format change typically occurred during the first two weeks of November and continued until the end of the year. (Holly is also available year-round through SiriusXM's online service.) From 2015–2016, Holly pre-empted SiriusXM's Velvet instead. On May 22, 2015, SiriusXM Love became a limited-run James Taylor Channel. Later, it was the home of Yacht Rock Radio.^[2][3] On August 17, 2017, SiriusXM Love moved to channel 70 and was replaced by PopRocks on Channel 17.^[4] For 2018, Love was pre-empted by a different Christmas music channel known as Hallmark Channel Radio—which was hosted by the channel's talent as an extension of its seasonal programming lineup "Countdown to Christmas".^[5] In 2020 and 2021, Love was once again pre-empted for the limited-run Billy Joel channel and Yacht Rock Radio, and in October 2021 it was announced that Love would move to online-only on channel 708. It was replaced by Siriusly Sinatra on channel 70. In 2025, the channel stopped playing songs from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s due to Sirius XO.

Selected artists played

Gloria Estefan, Luther Vandross, Bryan Adams, Mariah Carey, Kenny G, Barry Manilow, Kelly Clarkson, Bette Midler, Lionel Richie, Pink, Celine Dion, Bruno Mars, Kenny Rogers, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Adele, Barbra Streisand