On last night’s apprentice teams competed to create a song for XM’s “Cafe” radio station, a challenge that combined sense with creativity. Competing teams were matched with singer songwriters to create the tracks. In the end, the team with the better pop sensibility took down the competition. You gotta give the audience [...]

Extensive article in the Sydney Morning Herald about Amr, Islam’s “anti-bin Laden.” Focus on Amr’s messages and his role in the future of Islam, but what I found interesting was how he reaches his audience:
His vehicle is satellite TV and it has allowed him to penetrate the borders of not just every Arab country, [...]

On the heals of Sirius’s Canadian content announcement, XM Canada has revealed its lineup. The exact date of the launch is yet to be disclosed, but when XMC finally goes on the air, Canadians will be able to listen to a big variety of American and Canadian content including over 1,000 NHL broadcasts.
But the [...]

DISH, TX (formerly known as “Clark”) is happy for the change. The town’s 130 citizens will now enjoy free satellite installation, free DVR and the 60-channal package from Dish Network, all because the town changed it’s name. Basically the only person that doesn’t have reason to smile is L.E. Clark, the former mayor [...]

I was surfing around and stumbled across this comparison of XM and Sirius’s news releases at AutdioGraphics. Thought it was very interesting. I’ll let it speak for itself:
See if you can’t tell which company is betting on impressing its investors, and which is trying to impress its audience.
Thought you guys might get a [...]

To ensure that Canadians pay as much as possible, both XM and Sirius have added locks to their radio devices. Canadian radios can only receive Canadian channels, U.S. radios can only receive U.S. channels. What this means is that Canadians cannot buy radios in the U.S. and then use them at home.
For example, [...]

600 stations already broadcast in HD and 3,000 more have plans to join in the near future, yet almost nobody has heard of “HD radio.” What is it and how does it compare to satellite radio?
Unlike satellite radio, it is not a subscription service. It is an improvement on terrestrial radio with improved [...]

This is really cool:
Thursday November 10, 2005 2:21 PM EST - By: Michael Kwan
Via: Gizmodo
In the ongoing battery for satellite radio supremacy, XM Radio has taken another step toward taking Sirius out of the picture . Working with Nu-Metrics and InfoGation, XM Radio has now started testing “Dynamic Parking Information,” a system that works [...]

The shock Jock is expected to go back on the air Wednesday, he was recently suspended from the air waves due to a conflict of interests: He was hyping his upcoming switch to Sirius.
She wouldn’t call Stern’s absence a suspension and declined to comment further. Listeners will hear a compilation of Stern’s best shows [...]

In the wake of the 5th generation iPod, more commonly referred to as “the video iPod,” ABC has begun selling $1.99 TV show downloads via iTunes. NBC has announced a similar move, allowing $.99 downloads over DirecTV’s DVR box. Why anyone with a DVR would pay $.99 for a show when they can [...]