SIRIUS Left

SIRIUS Left

Broadcast area	United States Canada
Frequency	SIRIUS 146
Format	Progressive talk radio
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Owner	Sirius XM Radio
Website	www.sirius.com/siriusleft

SIRIUS Left is Sirius Satellite Radio's liberal talk channel. It features personalities such as Lynn Samuels, Bill Press, Alex Bennett, Mike Malloy, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann and newcomer Mark Thompson. It is also one of the Sirius XM-owned channels to be exclusive to Sirius and not heard on XM (along with SIRIUS Hits 1.) In June 2008, Sirius Canada added Sirius Left to its lineup (along with the now-defunct Hot Jamz).

Since the Sirius XM merger, the co-owned America Left on XM Satellite Radio did not join the Sirius lineup on November 12, 2008. Likewise, SIRIUS Left did not join the XM lineup. Instead, both channels were added to the online streaming services, and are accessible to online subscribers of both services including the iPhone and Blackberry apps.

Political analyst Andy Ostroy has criticized Sirius Left and liberal talk radio in general in the Huffington Post. Ostroy disliked Sirius Left's three in-house hosts Alex Bennett, Lynn Samuels, and Mark Thompson. Bennett was described as, "an ungracefully-aging hippie himself, offers up more gratuitous profanity than intellectual political thought", Samuels was summarized by, "any random listen could be whining about anything meaningless", while Thompson had the least critical description of, "while a smart, passionate guy, has a program so mellow in tone that it can literally put you to sleep. His voice is so smooth and jazzy that he'd be much better off cuing up a Miles Davis album." He said that Sirius Left should have more 'ass-kickers' on the network, like Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller.^[1]