The channel was originally known as The Strobe from 2002 to 2011, when it was relaunched under its current incarnation, an homage to the New York City discothèque Studio 54.
On December 16, due to subscriber demand, Sirius XM Radio announced that the channel would be reactivated on January 15, 2009.
[1] On January 15, 2009, The Strobe returned to the Sirius lineup and made its debut on XM (on XM83, where the similarly-formatted Chrome had been prior to the November 2008 channel realignment).
Studio 54, unlike The Strobe, focuses on deeper disco cuts, rare mixes, and club classics.
On August 4, 2016, Sirius XM expanded the format presentation of Studio 54 Radio to include Dance hits from the 1990s and 2000s due to the supposed elimination of Utopia when it moved to online only/modern SiriusXM Radios, although Utopia continues to become available as part of SiriusXM’s XTRA offerings.