Finally, after 40 years, the Rolling Stones have their own radio channel. Sirius channel 99 is now all Stones, all the time, featuring clips from the current tour which launched in Boston last weekend, rare tracks, and previews of the band’s upcoming album, A Bigger Bang. There’ll also be other exclusive content including “Inside A [...]

Mississippi college football fans rejoice - Mississippi State and Ole Miss football games will both be broadcast on Sirius this season. The agreement assures coverage of all Mississippi State and Ole Miss home games, and may feature away games if the other school doesn’t have a contract with Sirius. In that case, the home team’s [...]

Shania Twain fans rejoice: Beginning Monday, August 22nd, XM will host “Shania Twain: Forever and For Always,” chronicling the country superstar’s life and career beginning with her early days in Nashville. The story will be told in six one-hour specials including “World Collide,” where Shania discusses her relationship with producer/husband Mutt Lunge, and “Off the [...]

XM announced today that its Latin channel Alegria (channel 90) will shift focus to reggaeton, the Latin breed of hip-hop you hear blasting from cars across your city. The commercial-free channel will broadcast new shows like “IMF Bodega Beats,” hosted by Cypress Hill’s B-Real, delivering reggaeton to people who can’t listen to it on terrestrial [...]

XM Satellite Radio and books-on-tape leader Audible have teamed up to offer XM programming for download from their website at www.audible.com/xmradio. The website allows users to make one time downloads of exclusive XM content like “Opie and Anthony” and “The Bob Edwards Show” for about $2.99 a pop, or you can purchase a download subscription. [...]

DirecTV announced Friday that it will stop marketing TiVo as its digital video recorder service, opting to market its own DVR after a long troubled relationship between the satellite TV giant and the flagship digital video recorder. DirecTV announced earlier this year that it would begin selling its own DVR alongside TiVo, but this is [...]

Beginning at midnight on August 20th, Sirius’ “Hard Attack” channel will host a tribute to late Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, with a day of programming dedicated to Pantera, Damageplan, and “anything else he would want you to hear.” Listeners will also hear clips from Pantera’s “Vulgar Video,” as well as past interview segments, and [...]

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have spoken out against Sirius’ cancellation of The Word Network, a broadcaster for African-American ministries and gospel music, in a press release issued by The Word Network itself. The three members of Congress stated that Sirius could comply with the FCC’s public policy objectives by keeping The Word Network, [...]

Fitness expert Richard Simmons will be hosting a weekly three-hour talk show on Sirius starting in October, but don’t expect to sweat to the oldies with him again - the show is a means to “inspire and motivate the nation.” Simmons will instead read letters from listeners over the air and offer advice, humor, or [...]

Delphi Corp, long-time producer of products for XM Satellite Radio, has produced a new XM receiver called the RoadyXT which has been described as the smallest, thinnest one yet. It weighs only 2.8 ounces, measuring 3.7 inches wide by 2.2 inches high and 0.61 inches deep, and even has a built-in FM transmitter to [...]