Sirius is planning a celebration for the one-year anniversary of Elvis Radio, its all-Elvis radio channel, with a party at Graceland this weekend. Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton and Shelby County Mayor AC Wharton have declared Saturday “Elvis Radio Day,” in honor of the station which began broadcasting from Graceland on July 2nd, 2004. The celebration [...]

XM Satellite Radio will be joining up with the PGA to provide radio broadcasts for over 22 tournaments to subscribers this year. PGA Director of New Media Craig Peters stated that terrestrial radio is a “local medium” and golf is not a local sport, with 100 million fans across the United States, making satellite radio [...]

On July 2, Lance Armstrong will begin his last quest for a record-breaking 7th consecutive Tour de France victory. Fans will be able to share the experience with him as SIRIUS will be exclusively covering the Tour with behind-the-scenes reports and first-hand accounts from Lance himself and Armstrong Radio co-host Mark Higgins. Lance [...]

Starting July 1, XM Radio is bringing live music from concerts, archives and recordings to its listeners with the JuLive experience. Classic and original performances from the BBC archives and the 5,000 plus songs recorded in the XM Performance Theater will be aired, including performances by the Beatles circa early 60s. The eclectic [...]

Sirius Satellite Radio has partnered with MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting, Inc to bring the first Asian language satellite radio programming to Sirius, first with a Korean channel, then later a Chinese channel. MultiCultural, which already owns and operates 44 AM and FM radio stations in the U.S., will bring their expertise to Sirius to help create [...]

XM Chairman Gary Parson announced that the company’s start-up plan is unfolding as expected, and XM will finally turn a profit next year. The satellite radio provider is planning to sign as many as 20 million subscribers by 2010 and 40 million by 2015, with 5.5 million expected subscribers by year’s end. Parson added that [...]

XM Satellite Radio has announced that it will be expanding its coverage of the upcoming worldwide Live 8 festival to seven channels (XM Channel 40 - 46), with one dedicated channel for each of the six concerts plus another that will jump around to different performances across the globe. That makes a total of 55 [...]

XM has teamed up with defense contractor Raytheon to develop a communications system that uses XM’s satellites to relay emergency information to the military, according to The Washington Post. The system, called the Mobile Enhanced Situational Awareness Network (MESA), would use a dedicated XM channel that can only be decoded by special receivers, allowing emergency [...]

Hyatt Hotels Corp announced Tuesday that they will be offering XM Satellite Radio in all of its hotel rooms nationwide, becoming the first hotel chain to offer complimentary satellite radio service nationwide. XM hopes the deal, which is the most recent in XM and Sirius’s fierce battle in one-uping each other’s features, will prompt Hyatt [...]

Sirius Satellite Radio announced today that publishing icon Judith Regan will be hosting her own weekly two-hour talk show starting in October. The show will be a “no-holds-barred” forum featuring an array of authors, celebrities, and other personalities, covering a wide range of topics. Regan, the CEO and founder of ReganMedia, has published authors like [...]