Archive for October, 2005

XM first to offer Fox Talk News Radio

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

XM has announced a “Fox News Talk” radio channel from coast to coast.
Press release it up!
The new channel will offer news, analysis and commentary from FOX News
personalities Bill O’Reilly, Tony Snow, John Gibson, and Alan Colmes, among
many others. FOX News Talk is the latest addition to XM’s robust line-up of
talk radio programming, [...]

Unites States GPS in jeopardy?

Friday, October 14th, 2005

GPS systems may suffer with infastructre no longer in place space.
From Slashdot:
from the ground-control-to-major-tom dept.
loped_index writes “IT Week reports that the U.S. GPS system is in a delicate state, and that full coverage could be lost if older satellites fail faster than the current rate. From the article: ‘The system relies [...]

Stern & Sirius: the plot thickens…

Friday, October 14th, 2005

A couple new big news items in the always amorphous Stern/Sirius/Infinity Broadcasting situation. The first is news of Stern’s replacement: David Lee Roth.
The second bit of news was the bombshell that Philly-based Tim Sabean, who programs Infinity’s active-rock stations that carry Stern’s shows, was quitting to go to Sirius. He will [...]

Cable companies draft bill to tax Satellite users

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

As reported by the Boston Herald, cable companies in MA (for those of you keeping score at home, that’s Comcast), have drafted legislation to penalize their competition. But don’t take my word for it.
From Boston’s largest Tabloid:
Consumers who receive satellite television service in Massachusetts would face a new 5 percent tax under the terms [...]

LG announces new cell phone that recieves Sat TV, pauses, rewinds, FF

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

It’s no surprise that the next big thing in satellite phones and satellite TV should come from South Korea, the most wired country in the world. We reported on the phenomenon of South Korean Sat TV phones before, but the new model from LG is special. Not only does it recieve satellite TV [...]

Honda adding XM to more models

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Honda is factory-installing XM radios in more than 550,000 2006 Hondas. The Star Tribune:
WASHINGTON - The market-leading satellite radio company is getting a boost from a carmaker: XM says Honda will provide factory-installed units in more than 550,000 2006 vehicles.
XM already is factory installed on the Civic and the Pilot SUV.
In a statement, the [...]

XM announces “XM Canada,” Canadian broadcasters mull regulations

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

XM radio made an announcement yesterday regarding its Canadian branch: the unwieldy “Canadain Satellite Radio” has been re-branded to the more elegant “XM Canada.” However, even with the change in brand identity and the promise of NHL Hockey, some radio fans still think XM will have trouble signing up Canadians to their services. [...]

Undisclosed number of Sirius subscribers may not exist…

Friday, October 7th, 2005

According to a very interesting article over at thestreet.com, Sirius Satellite Radio may be padding their subscriptions with bloated automobile-unit numbers. On the record, they’ve sold an additional 349,000 vehicle units, largely thanks to deals with some major automobile manufacturers, but liberal bookkeeping lets Sirius claim a sale as soon as a Sirius-equipped vehicle [...]

Satellite radio seen as recording industry threat

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Broadcasting premium, commercial-free music is one thing, but making it easy to record and take anywhere? Well, that just may be too much for the recording industry to swallow. According to an RIAA spokesman, Sirius’s new S50 portable radio recorder and XM’s doppelganger “neXus” may be grounds for a law suit:
Illegal song trading [...]