Archive for April, 2006

Sirius’ Mel Karmazin salary: $3.45 million

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Sirius Satellite Radio boss Mel Karmazin raked in $3.45 million in compensation last year - but so far this year stockholders have fared less well.

The company’s stock has dropped nearly 25 percent this year, following the launch of shock jock Howard Stern’s show on Sirius.

According to a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, […]

Opie & Anthony replaced David Lee Roth

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Opie & Anthony replaced David Lee Roth on CBS’ New York-based Free FM radio network. The duo were fired by CBS Radio’s WNEW-FM in New York for coercing a couple to make love inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral and have been working for XM Satellite Radio since August 2004.

In what may be the first satellite to […]

Sirius Signs Mark Cuban

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Sirius plans a weekly talk show featuring Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Cuban, the tech entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for $4 billion during the Internet boom of the late 1990s, will host a show from noon to 2 p.m. EST starting this Sunday.

“I’m fired up about doing the show on Sirius,” said Cuban. […]