Broadcast area Off-air Owner Sirius Satellite Radio | Format 1980s Music | |
Frequency Sirius 8
Dish Network 6008 Class Satellite Radio Station Website | ||
Big '80s was an all 1980s music channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 8 and Dish Network channel 6008. It was replaced by XM's The 80s on 8 on November 12, 2008, as part of the Sirius XM Merger. It featured all four living original MTV VJs who are now on The 80s on 8 channel. Big '80s was SIRIUS's highest rated music channel during its early days. Nina Blackwood's countdown show was dropped and replaced by AT40 Flashback (which had always been broadcast on '80s On 8) when Sirius XM replaced this channel with '80s on 8. However due to subscriber demand, Sirius/XM overhauled many of the channels absorbed by the XM line-up due to subscriber feedback. 80s on 8 was one of those channels, resulting in the return of Nina Blackwood's countdown in October 2009, and the Big '80s name has returned as the slogan for '80s on 8. However, this version includes the other VJs and is named the "VJ big 40 countdown". By 2010, the schedule had returned to that of the Big '80s.