Canada 360 is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 24-hour news

News

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 radio station

Radio station

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, which airs on XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

, Channel 155. The channel provides news, traffic, weather, sports and border crossing information, part of which is sourced from Radio Development and also from Canadian Press

Canadian Press

Canadian Press Enterprises Inc. is the entity which "will take over the operations of the Canadian Press" according to a November 26, 2010 article in the Toronto Star...

. Canada 360 is the only source on Sirius XM for Canadian news, traffic and border information, often compared as the Canadian equivalent of Sirius XM's other news channels like CNN, BBC News and Fox News.

The audio is encoded at 4 kbit/s mono and sounds similar to that of an AM broadcasting station. This channel's audio is vocal audio only, much like Sirius XM's other traffic and weather channels.

On 2008-11-12, Canada 360 was moved from Channel 244 to Channel 96.

On 2011-05-04, Canada 360 was moved from Channel 96 to Channel 155.