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Veteran DJ Michael Tearson has said goodbye to SiriusXM after 12 years. Best known for his Deep Tracks show on the satellite platform's Deep Classic Rock channel, Tearson said he has been unhappy for some time with the direction SiriusXM was taking with its programming.

DJ Michael Tearson is quitting SiriusXM, but he'll keep up his Web platform shows.
DJ Michael Tearson is quitting SiriusXM, but he'll keep up his Web platform shows.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer, file

Even more Kardashians on TV

It's like we always say: There're never enough Kardashians on TV. So we thank cable channel FYI for Kocktails with Khloé, a coming prime-time talk show starring Kim's sis, Khloé Kardashian.

Set at Khloé's house, the show will have "celebrity guests and friends" who shall "join Khloé in the kitchen and around the table for an intimate dinner party filled with cooking, pop culture, conversation, and outrageously fun party games," FYI says in a wonderfully bubbly statement.

Michael Tearson leaves SiriusXM

Veteran DJ Michael Tearson has said goodbye to SiriusXM after 12 years.

Best known for his Deep Tracks show on the satellite platform's Deep Classic Rock channel, Tearson said he has been unhappy for some time with the direction SiriusXM was taking with its programming.

"It's been brewing since about March," the Westmont, Camden County, resident said in a phone interview. "I just felt like my contribution was no longer really appreciated. . . . They managed to drain all the fun out of doing this."

Tearson has been a fixture on the Philadelphia radio scene for nearly half a century, since the late 1960s when he volunteered at his alma mater University of Pennsylvania's then-student-run WXPN. Over the last 48 years, he has worked variously at WMGK, WMMR, and again at WXPN when it became a professionally run station.

He joined Sirius in 2003 and stayed when the channel merged with XM in 2008.

Tearson, also is known for cameo appearances in the movies, including Blow Out (1981) and 13th Child (2002), said he felt that he had no more to contribute to mainstream radio.

"I don't expect to be back on broadcast radio or satellite," he said. "I think I'm too much a free spirit to do what they do."

But he's not done with DJing on Web platforms. He currently has weekly shows: Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment on iRadioPhilly.com and Sound Museum: World Wide Dylan on Radio That Doesn't Suck (rtds.ca).

He also is the narrator in and an executive producer of Philly Pop Music, a new documentary about the Philly music scene directed by George Manney.

SiriusXM had yet to return a call for comment by deadline.

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