Sirius Gold was an all '50s and early '60s music channel on Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.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 of music and 65 streams of...

 channel 5 and Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

 channel 6005.

What they played: Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, The Drifters, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, The Four Seasons, Roy Orbison, Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, The Platters and more.

On November 12, 2008

2008 in radio

Several events occurred in radio in 2008.- Events :* January 2: WWFT finished Christmas music stunting, rolling out the red carpet for Adult contemporary music branded as "Warm."...

, Sirius Gold was removed from the Sirius lineup and replaced by XM's

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...

 The 50s on 5

The 50s on 5

The '50s on 5 is a commercial-free, satellite radio station on the Sirius XM Radio platform. It plays mostly Top 40 pop, doo wop, and rock and roll hits from the 1950s and early '60s, although they occasionally play historically signifficant songs from the late '40s and mid '60s...

 as part of a restructuring by Sirius XM Radio.

Weekdays

Eastern	Show/DJ	Pacific
7am-1pm	Bill Rock Bill Rock Bill Rock is a rock which lies east of the south end of Grass Island in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted and named in 1928 by Discovery Investigations personnel....	4am-11am
1pm-3pm	Marty Mitchell	10am-12pm
3pm-6pm	LIVE at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...  and Museum!	12pm-3pm
	Mon-Thur with Raechel Donahue Raechel Donahue Raechel Donahue is a rock radio pioneer generally associated with her husband Tom Donahue, who died in 1975. She was the original entertainment reporter for CNN, briefly served as VJ for Cable Music Channel and a longtime radio personality in San Francisco on KSAN and in Los Angeles on KMET,...
	Fridays with Norm N. Nite Norm N. Nite Norm N. Nite , was born Norman Durma and is the author of the Rock On! series of books. Rock On is coined as the official encyclopaedia of rock and roll music. He has spent many years on radio stations such as WGAR-AM and WMJI-FM in Cleveland and WCBS-FM in New York City...
6pm-10pm	Marty Mitchell	3pm-7pm

Weekends

Eastern	Saturdays	Pacific
10am-1pm	Marty Mitchell	7am-11am
3pm-6pm	Norm N. Nite Norm N. Nite Norm N. Nite , was born Norman Durma and is the author of the Rock On! series of books. Rock On is coined as the official encyclopaedia of rock and roll music. He has spent many years on radio stations such as WGAR-AM and WMJI-FM in Cleveland and WCBS-FM in New York City...	12pm-3pm
7pm-1am	Don Tandler	4pm-10pm
	Sundays
3pm-9pm	Don Tandler	12pm-6pm
9pm-12am	The Doo-Wop Doo-wop The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and... Drive-In	6pm-9pm