XM gets PGA deal Football, baseball, Nascar and now golf. Rivals XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio are working hard to beef up sports programming, and XM landed the latest deal. The District-based broadcaster says it has exclusive rights to broadcast PGA Tour events in a long-term broadcasting and marketing agreement with the Professional […]
Billions at stake in battle over sports on satellite radio The new world of satellite radio is reshaping an ages-old medium and turning it into the hottest new vehicle for sports fans, no matter how far they roam or what time zone they’re in. Across an ever-expanding universe, a white-hot competition between major players XM […]
BMW’s Auto Launch Uses Sirius Satellite Radio For the first time, a major automobile manufacturer is using satellite radio to promote a new vehicle launch. BMW of North America announced Wednesday an innovative promotion with Sirius to celebrate the launch of the new 3 Series vehicle. The promotion, called “3 Across America” and running March […]
XM Changes Program Structure, Faces New Indecency Standard Proposals XM Satellite Radio made an announcement last week that it is expanding its basic service package, in an effort to counter the fact that their monthly subscription price for said service will increase from $9.99 to $12.99 beginning April 2. To make the price jump an […]
XM Gets Lapped by Sirius (Lockergnome) Well, things don’t look good for XM Satellite radio as it lost one of its largest draws to Sirius this week. If it wasn’t bad enough that the struggling competitor got Howard Stern on its doggy network, now yanking XM’s bread-and-butter NASCAR contract will surely make XM clutch tightly […]
XM Satellite Radio Lifts Monthly Fee by 30% XM Satellite Radio on Monday said it would raise the monthly fee for its nationwide radio service by about 30 percent in April and would add some premium features to its basic plan, putting it on par with smaller rival Sirius Satellite Radio . XM, whose shares […]
XM gets new satellite, Sirius gets new partner Rival satellite radio companies XM and Sirius both made news Tuesday, with one launching a satellite and the other landing a new partner. And both companies got a boost to their stock prices Tuesday morning, after UBS raised its investment ratings on the businesses. XM Satellite Radio […]
Sirius, a provider of subscription-based satellite radio services, said Monday that Volkswagen AG, Europe’s largest carmaker, will offer Sirius as a factory-installed option on the new 2005 Volkswagen Jetta beginning this month. Sirius is currently available as a factory-installed option on the 2005 Beetle and Beetle Convertible, and will also be available on the new […]
Will Listeners Follow “Renegade” Howard Stern To Sirius? Will Howard Stern’s legions of fans pay to follow him into the world of satellite radio? Stern seems to think so, but a new study from Bridge Ratings shows that many have not made up their minds yet. When asked if they would be subscribing to Sirius […]
Sirius Off to the Races When you’ve got only two satellite radio providers, exclusive deals are about landing prized content as much as they are about keeping them away from your lone rival. So when Sirius Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced that it would be inheriting the NASCAR broadcasting contract from XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: […]