All Things Satellite Radio

Chrysler is showing off their infotainment features on the 2010 "Connected" Grand Caravan at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show (which starts later this week).

The vehicle is a veritable swiss army knife of entertainment technology, with FLO TV, Sirius Satellite Radio, Sirius Backseat TV and Uconnect Web. The latter of which transforms the minivan into a traveling WiFi hotspot.

Folks, we've only just begun. With 11 months left on Howard Stern's contract, the public negotiations are only just beginning.

For this round, we'll hear Mel Karmazin's take on whether Howard will make the jump to Internet Radio; meanwhile Howard talks about potential moves to terrestrial radio (again) and being offered "someone elses show" on television.

That show, it's rumored, was American Idol.

Yes, this is public posturing at its best.

Here's a quick update to our previous post on XM NavTraffic's expansion. Above is the updated coverage map showing all the areas that XM NavTraffic data is provided, and the type of data the area gets.

This is being distributed to dealers, so I'm assuming it's "public knowledge" at this point, though no official announcement by Sirius XM Radio Inc. has been made. As far as we know, the updates are still pending and will begin rolling out very shortly.

(Click on the above XM NavTraffic coverage map image to see a larger version)