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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]