Buzzsaw (Sirius)

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BuzzSaw

Broadcast area	North America
Slogan	Hard, Heavy, Stadium-Shaking Classic Rock
Frequency	Sirius 19 Dish Network 6019
First air date	February, 2004
Format	Hard Rock-focused Classic Rock
Owner	Sirius Satellite Radio
Website	www.sirius.com/buzzsaw

BuzzSaw is a station that plays a harder-than-normal blend of classic rock, including early heavy metal, southern rock, hair metal and arena rock on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 19 and Dish Network channel 6019.

Artists played on the channel include Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath (including both the Ozzy Osbourne and Ronnie James Dio periods), Van Halen, Aerosmith, Rush, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, The Black Crowes, and Jimi Hendrix.

The channel entered the Sirius lineup in early 2004. Prior to that time, there were three channels that played music that would later be played on BuzzSaw: The Rock, The Vault, and Big Rock. The Rock focused on the hits of classic rock; The Vault on the "deeper cuts" of classic rock; and Big Rock defined itself as "stadium rock" (mostly glam metal with some arena rock). In that round of channel changes, The Rock was subdivided into Classic Vinyl and Classic Rewind while Big Rock was replaced with Hair Nation. BuzzSaw can essentially be viewed as the other successor to Big Rock; the arena rock that isn't played on Hair Nation is generally played on BuzzSaw.