It is no secret that XM and SIRIUS stockholders are getting killed. This year alone, the former is down 53% while the latter is down 37%. But why is this?
Matt Krantz at USA Today considers satellite radio to be a perfect example of “individual investors get[ting] overly enthusiastic about unproven, unprofitable small companies,” [...]

Universal Music Group (i.e. the world’s largest record company) just inked a deal with SpiralFrog, a music downloading site expected to launch in December, that will allow the site to offer free, entirely ad-supported, music downloads from the Universal catalog. Apparently, downloaders will be required to watch a 90 second advertisement before each download, [...]

Get SIRIUS Info has updates on the soon-to-be-released Soloist docking station. The Soloist will be compatible with virtually every recently released SIRIUS receiving device (including the Stilleto), as well as every iPod other than the Shuffle. The sound-quality of the device is supposed to be surprisingly high, as well as “360″–meaning that the [...]

Recent news regarding the FCC’s approval of several XM receivers has led many to speculate on how these new receivers would solve the emissions problem. The first solution that comes to mind is that the new devices will simply emit weaker signals. This possibility is, of course, very troubling for satellite radio subscribers. [...]

Thanks in large part to an article written in Advertisting Age a few months back (the site requires registration; see a summary of it here), rumors have been circulating around the internet recently about a potential XM/SIRIUS merger. In fact, the rumors have become so prevalent (though not credible) that, bodog.com has posted odds [...]

A post from Satellite Radio Techworld has just brought to my attention a random application for tiered satellite radio service. Tiered service would offer subscribers the ability to, e.g., pay less but get access to fewer channels or have to listen to more commericials. The response to the post, however, makes me suspicious [...]

According to their Press Release, a company that calls itself “Satellite TV for PC” is now offering a satellite TV service that only requires a one-time software download fee (right now its around 50 bucks) for unlimited access to over 3000 satellite TV channels worldwide, with no monthly billing. As great as the idea [...]

According to SIRIUS Backstage, SIRIUS has just announced that it will be upgrading its online music stations to now include select talk shows (i.e. Howard Stern) and CD quality music. For non-subscribers, the cost of the service will be $12.99 a month. For subscribers, the optional internet service upgrade will cost $2.99, with [...]

Rumors have abounded for weeks regarding the new Sony PSP, which is expected to feature both a camera and a GPS receiver. The official introduction of the product is supposed to be in September, at the Tokyo Game Show, but some early pics of the device are available here, at Accel Zone.com
It appears from [...]

A recent story in the LA Times (which can be read here, at Miles of Music.com, since the LA Times requires registration), explains that a “demographic shift” is the reason why KZLA, LA’s last country music station (and one of the most popular in the country), recently switched formats to pop radio. To put [...]