Galaxie consists of 100 commercial-free music based audio channels, each devoted to a particular genre, distributed through digital television platforms.

Each offers more than 100 channels of commercial-free music and talk channels for a monthly fee of $12.95.

Only The Best: Two hours of commercial-free music, with local promotions and prizes.

The station plays over 90 minutes of commercial-free music each weekday at 9 am known as The 98 at 9.

The commercial-free music attracted Ford to CD Radio.

"Our market research found most people would prefer commercial-free music and a wider choice of programming," Mr. Ledford said.

Sirius offers subscribers, for $12.95 a month, 65 channels of commercial-free music and 55 channels of sports, news and entertainment programming.

URGE Radio offered cable systems digital audio channels with continuous music commercial-free, 24 hours a day.

That never seemed like enough to cover the cost of all that commercial-free music, but users weren't complaining.

Herrington promised listeners "62 minutes of commercial-free music every hour".