XM radio says to be in 1.8 mln GM cars in 2007
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. on Tuesday said that automaker General Motors Corp. plans to make over 1.8 million vehicles with the XM radio-service built-in in 2007. Every GM vehicle with...
View ArticleSirius Lowers Subscriber Guidance
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. announced that it would cut year-end 2006 subscriber guidance to between 5.9 and 6.1 million. Sirius shares closed lower by 7.67%. This year’s retail sales results will be...
View ArticleDirecTV is Up 60% This Year and Still Going Strong
DirecTV generated about $1 billion of free cash flow before interest and taxes this year, doubling last year’s output, and analysts expect earnings per share to jump 21% next year, to $1.31. In the...
View ArticleDish Network Cuts Service to nearly 1m Customers
Dish Network shut off access to out-of-local-market network stations to 900,000 people nationwide this week. For many, morning rituals of watching New York City morning news, or catching tidbits from...
View ArticleSirius and XM Propose Merger of Equals
Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin joined the cast of “The Howard Stern Show” this morning to share with the shock-jock’s audience his reasons for the merger with XM and how it will be “good for subscribers.”...
View ArticleSirius and XM – Have and Eat Cake too?
If the FCC approves the Sirius and XM Radio merger, they would only do so because they consider their competition to be “all of radio,” including terrestrial radio. But, if they are on the same playing...
View ArticleSound Quality in Satellite Radio
John Caldwell over at Electronic House has a lengthy blog entry about the quality (or lack thereof) in satellite radio. It’s a quiet problem few people are willing to talk about. His rant is directed...
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We’re looking for bloggers who are interested in joining our blogging team to blog everything and anything related to satellite radio and TV. This is the place to be! Blog as often or as little as...
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