XM Radio has suspended shock jocks Opie & Anthony for 30 days for their sex-and-violence laced jokes about Elizabeth II and Condoleeza Rice a week ago, according to CBS.
It is quite possible that the two jocks won’t return at all. NY1 reports that CBS radio canned two other shock jocks on terrestrial radio for making [...]

A Chinese rocket sucessfully launched Nigeria’s first satellite, according to BBC News. The satellite will reach its final position in orbit later this year and remain in operation for a decade and half.

Leslie Shapiro at SciFi.com laments satellite radio’s limited market penetration:
Although it’s clear that I love satellite radio, it’s equally clear that most everybody else doesn’t. I recently bought a new car, supposedly “with XM.” The salesman had no clue if there was actually an XM receiver built into the car, and neither did his manager. [...]

Guyana’s telephone company is using satellite as backup after the Americas II cable was cut off 15 kilometers off shore. It could take as many as 21 days to fully restore the cable, but thanks to satellite service, voice and data communications will be maintained, albeit at lower capacity.

Motley Fool contributor Rich Duprey thinks satellite radio will fail because of three glaring product shortcomings:
1) Repetitive playlists. The downside with channels that cater to your musical preferences is that your likely to hear the same songs over and over again. I’m not sure how to avoid this problem. I often listen to online radio [...]