In attempt to scoop up disgruntled cable subscribers, Dish Network recently announced that it would be offering the Digital Home Advantage package for only $19.99 for the first 12 months - a 32% discount. The offer, which also includes three free months of HBO and Showtime, is available to residents of Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, [...]

Forget terrestrial radio - XM and Sirius may have a new competitor to worry about. Following Yahoo’s purchase of Pixoria, the company has struck a deal to place its services on new Motorola handheld devices. Yahoo claims it wants to extend its presence beyond computers and into cell phones, homes, and cars. What’s this have [...]

Ex-football star, Naked Gun actor and acquitted murder suspect O.J. Simpson is back in hot water as DirecTV claims to have “overwhelming” evidence that Simpson was stealing the satellite provider’s signal. DirecTV won a court battle in which a Florida judge ordered O.J. to pay $25,000 for illegally receiving satellite signals, stemming from the 2001 [...]

For the first time in pay-tv history, DirecTV will offer its subscribers a sneak preview of fall programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN, The WB, HBO, and Showtime weeks before the season officially begins. Starting in early August and continuing through September, DirecTV channel 101 will feature a 30-minute preview from each of the [...]

Investment website Fool.com reports in its “Dueling Fools” debate series that Sirius Satellite Radio does not insure any of the three satellites on which its service depends. A note in the company’s Form 10K notes that “failure of our satellites would significantly damage our business,” and also stating that it would take six months to [...]

Great news for Sirius - 23 percent of Howard Stern’s listeners will be following the shock jock when he ditches terrestrial radio for Sirius in 2006. Meanwhile, 5 percent of Stern’s listeners say they’ll stick with whatever replaces him on their current Stern station, and 41 percent say they listen to that particular station only [...]

Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin says that his satellite radio service will have 2.7 million subscribers at the end of 2005, assuming that the current rate of new subscribers continues. That’s more than double the 1.1 million subscribers Sirius reported at the end of 2004, an impressive feat at the least. When Karmazin was asked about [...]

Possibly taking a cue from Sirius’ attempt to integrate with iPod, XM has announced that a new Samsung device will be capable of streaming XM Satellite Radio as well as play MP3s. But don’t get too excited - you’ll need to put the player in a docking station in order to hear XM live. However, [...]

In case you left your Motorhead CD at home, XM has you covered: Harley-Davidson’s 2006 FLHTCUSE Screamin’ Eagle Ultra Classic Electra Glide will be the first motorcycle to come equipped with XM Satellite Radio. The new feature includes a high-resolution display with adjustable background color that displays the channel, song, and artist playing, just like [...]

Anyone who’s ever heard a great new song on XM and completely forgot what it was later can rejoice: XM and Napster have teamed up to launch a service where XM subscribers can easily download songs they like from the online music service. “XM + Napster” works with XM-compatible MP3 players to allow users to [...]