Tag: SIRIUS

Sorry, iPhone users, but the 'King of All Media' won't be available on Sirius XM's new iPhone app, released last week. You'll have to get your fill of fart jokes and conversations with naked women somewhere else (may we suggest the Playboy channel for the latter). According to Daily Finance, the absence of Howard Stern's show is due to, in his words, a "contract rights issue." Monday, fans ...

My, my -- now isn't this something? Shortly after narrowly avoiding a dastardly collision with bankruptcy, Sirius XM is looking to connect itself with profitable enterprises in an attempt to build market share and regain interest from budget-conscience consumers. Just weeks after hearing that the sat radio company could be preparing a few Sirius / DirecTV bundles, CFO David Frear has now ...

We guess those bailout talks with DirecTV weren't so futile after all, huh? The satcaster's parent company, Liberty Media, has just stepped in to rescue Sirius XM from the clutches of bankruptcy, providing a $530 million life raft that it will use to pay off looming debt payments and keep operations humming. Liberty will write a $280 million check immediately, of which $171 million will go ...

Sirius XM is preparing to file for bankruptcy and could do so within days, the New York Times reports. According to the article, the move might be a calculated act to pressure Dish Network and EchoStar owner Charles Ergen into making an offer for acquisition. The Wall Street Journal says he offered to purchase the merged satellite radio group late last year and was then brushed off. Despite ...

In a somewhat unsurprising move, the FCC has approved the merger of Sirius and XM after protracted -- and incredibly boring -- multi-year negotiations. The Federal Communication Commission decided tonight to allow a deal that will bring the two satellite radio providers together, creating a combined subscriber base of roughly 18 million users. The deal isn't without catches, however, with the ...

The Department of Justice approved the controversial merger between Sirius and XM Satellite radio yesterday. Now it's the FCC's turn to take a shot at the only two satellite radio providers in the country, which aim to become one monopolistic company. Clear Channel is taking the unprecedented step of pressuring the FCC for stricter enforcement of decency standards, specifically making them ...

Following a year of review, the U.S. Department of Justice just announced that it will allow the merger of XM and Sirius, the two leading U.S. satellite radio providers. Interestingly, the Department of Justice does not see the merger as anti-competitive. Engadget explains: The deciding factor appeared to be the proprietary hardware needed to receive both XM and Sirius; since consumers who shell ...

This week, XM announced its first ever radio with a color screen, the XpressRC. The unit, to be manufactured by Delphi, features a split-screen with one half showing the song that is currently playing and the other half showing what's playing on up to three other channels. In addition, the receiver allows you to pause for up to an hour and pick back up where you left off, which doubles the pause ...

Say it ain't so, FCC. Apparently the latest HD radios, which claim to offer "the kind of sound that was previously reserved for your HDTV, CD system or MP3 player", actually do a worse job of performing the simple task of picking up radio signals than even a cheap shower radio. It seems that when they do pick up a station the sound is good, but they have such crummy tuners that for the time ...