John Caldwell over at Electronic House has a lengthy blog entry about the quality (or lack thereof) in satellite radio. It’s a quiet problem few people are willing to talk about. His rant is directed at XM and not owning XM, we can’t comment about XM’s sound quality. But the inventor of satellite radio, Sirius, […]
If the FCC approves the Sirius and XM Radio merger, they would only do so because they consider their competition to be “all of radio,” including terrestrial radio. But, if they are on the same playing field as terrestrial radio, then shouldn’t they have to play by the same rules as traditional radio, including FCC […]
Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin joined the cast of “The Howard Stern Show†this morning to share with the shock-jock’s audience his reasons for the merger with XM and how it will be “good for subscribers.†First of all, he eschewed the suggestion that the combined company would be a monopoly, thus allowing it to raise […]
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. announced that it would cut year-end 2006 subscriber guidance to between 5.9 and 6.1 million. Sirius shares closed lower by 7.67%. This year’s retail sales results will be hurt by lackluster holiday sales. This bad news for Sirius is also bad news for RadioShack Corp. According to DowJones, BMO Capital Markets […]
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. on Tuesday said that automaker General Motors Corp. plans to make over 1.8 million vehicles with the XM radio-service built-in in 2007. Every GM vehicle with factory-installed XM radio includes a three-month trial service period. After that period, customers typically pay about $13 a month for the nationwide system, which […]
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 […]
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 […]