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. […]
Monster Unveils SIRIUS Accessories Line
Monster, that company which brings you all of those A/V cables and the like, is getting into the satellite radio accessories market as today they unveiled a line of products aimed at SIRIUS subscribers.
The first two products out of the gate, according to a Monster press release, are a $49.95 home […]
XM Satellite Radio Extends Lead With More Than 640,000 New Net Subscribers During Second Quarter of 2005
XM Satellite Radio in early July announced it added more than 640,000 new net subscribers during the second quarter of 2005 for a total of more than 4.4 million subscribers. This subscriber gain represents a 53 percent increase in […]
XM Radio Set to Turn Profit - Subscriber base grows as rival does too.
XM Satellite Radio will turn a profit next year, says the company’s chairman.
Gary Parson, XM chairman, said during a visit to Detroit that the company’s start-up plan, which included provisions for heavy losses, is unfolding as planned. Thus XM is on course […]
Military might draft XM Satellite Radio
Customers of XM Satellite Radio aren’t the only ones who appreciate its digital quality and nationwide coverage. The U.S. military might draft XM’s service for homeland security purposes.
XM and Raytheon have jointly built a communications system that would use XM’s satellites to relay information to soldiers and emergency responders during […]
BBC Radio 1 Invades Sirius
The British are coming, the British are coming! So says Sirius. The satellite radio company yesterday announced they had done a deal with BBC Radio to bring the popular BBC Radio 1 music channel to their line up later this summer.
BBC Radio 1, according to a Sirius press release, plays a […]
Taking satellite radio for a spin
f you’re a long-haul trucker, stop reading, polish up your big belt buckle and just go buy one.
If you’re a troll living under a bridge where reception’s bad, save your dough.
For the rest of us, deciding whether to shell out for satellite radio - and if so, which one to […]
Canadian Satellite Radio awarded licence to offer XM satellite radio service in Canada
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today granted Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR) a broadcasting licence to deliver commercial-free music and premier news, sports, talk and entertainment to Canadians from coast-to-coast-to- coast, subject to certain programming requirements.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for […]
Ford Extends Alliance With Sirius
Ford Motor Co. said Monday it’s extending through 2011 its exclusive contract with Sirius Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. to offer Sirius radios as factory-installed options in select models.
Ford’s agreement with Sirius was originally scheduled to end in 2008, Sirius vice president Jim Collins said.
“Ford is a very important strategic […]
Sirius change for cuz Brucie
Bruce Morrow - a familiar New York radio voice for decades until being unceremoniously bounced last week from WCBS-FM - signed a five-year deal with Sirius Satellite Radio yesterday to anchor three shows a week, beginning next month.
“I am riding so high - I’m on a rocket ride; I’m above a […]