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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dish’s new tricks Dish Network has long been seen as the Wal-Mart of home TV services, offering a cheaper package of cable-type channels than either the local cable service or its main satellite competitor, DirecTV. But over the past two years, Dish also has built a reputation for delivering advanced technology and new features. Last […]
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 […]
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 […]
A look at Dish Network’s HD receiver/recorder and Toshiba’s tunerless TVs What’s the richest source for programming to show off your super-grade, high-definition TV? At present, that honor goes to satellite TV provider Dish Network and its second-generation HD receiver/recorder, the Dish Player-DVR 942. While broadcast networks reserve most high-def shows for prime time or […]
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 […]
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, […]