Whenever I want to add the SiriusXM channels, I opt for the $10 Latino Bonus Pack, instead of the $6 stand-alone SiriusXM package. Latino Bonus Pack gets me all of the SiriusXM channels that Dish carries, plus the Dish CD channels, Disney XD, and obviously a bunch of Spanish-language basic cable channels also. Those additional channels make it worth the extra cost for me. Even then, I do not keep the package all of the time, though.Then why if I went the Flex Pack route I’d have to pay extra for the SiriusXM channels? (Note: I’m not being rude but simply asking a question.)
That is an extended free preview, as I have pointed out in other threads. Dish never turned off the free preview for most of the channels that had been playing Holiday music last year. The usual holiday map-down next to the shopping channels ended in January, but the music channels remain in free preview on their regular channel numbers. I think that this may have been a mistake. Even if Dish is now aware of their mistake, they may have chosen to extend the preview even further, as part of their continued effort to provide more free programming during the coronavirus crisis. I do not expect those music channels to remain available for free forever, though.FWIW the Flex Pack has a small handful of the Muzak channels included and has for a long time now.