Iconic rapper Eminem will celebrate the release of his new album Relapse with a performance and interview
direct from "a secret location" in Detroit, on Sirius XM's Shade 45 channel today, May 30th at 8pm ET.May 2009 Archives
Iconic rapper Eminem will celebrate the release of his new album Relapse with a performance and interview
direct from "a secret location" in Detroit, on Sirius XM's Shade 45 channel today, May 30th at 8pm ET.
Bob Lefsetz wrote up an incredible post yesterday pitting Pandora Radio vs. Slacker Radio, and while I quickly posted about it on Twitter, I really wanted to call more attention to the article. Because Lefsetz nails it.
It's been nearly three years since Sirius announced it would augment its satellite constellation to include a geostationary satellite, and now the new bird is preparing to launch.The Sirius FM-5 Satellite was successfully delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome earlier this week, and now the spacecraft itself has arrived and is going through preparations.
The first-ever official screenshot of the upcoming Sirius XM iPhone app was revealed today during Sirius XM Radio Inc. CEO Mel Karmazin's PowerPoint presentation at the shareholder summit.
View the presentation here.
The buttons on the bottom reveal that the Sirius XM iPhone app will have the ability to sort by category, channel, favorites - and there's a "Shopping" feature as well. There's also arrows next to each channel indicating more information is viewable per channel (hopefully it's something more akin to an electronic channel guide).
Little else is publicly known, aside from what we've already found out. But at least we get to finally see something official.
[Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo]
Microsoft has finally come clean on the rumors of its new touch-screen Zune HD, set to go on sale this Fall. The new Zune is an attempt to take on the iPod Touch, but it's not the interface I'm interested in - it's the "HD" in the new Zune HD.Nearly three years ago, the old-school Microsoft Zune touted a built-in FM radio - not exactly a feature that would make it an "iPod killer" (as history shows, the Zune barely made a dent in iPod sales), but it was a feature nonetheless. Including a radio tuner gave consumers the choice to listen to their own collection, or live content from over-the-air radio.
And now, the new Zune HD will include an "upgrade" to its featureset: built-in HD Radio.
Dave Matthews Band will be hosting their own music channel on Sirius XM Radio's Jam_On channel starting on Monday, June 1st at 12pm ET through Monday, June 8th at 3am ET. For one-week, it'll be 24/7 Dave Matthews on Sirius channel 17 and XM channel 56.The launch of "Dave Matthews Band Radio" coincides with the band's release of their latest studio album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, which gets released worldwide Tuesday, June 2nd.
Sirius XM Radio aren't the only ones involved with the Indy 500. Slacker Radio is sponsoring the top Indy 500 racer Alex "Pink" Lloyd - and in celebration they've created a special custom radio station to showcase his favorite music and personality.
Alex Lloyd is a rising star in Indy racing who's focused on winning the 2009 Indy 500, having qualified 11th in the middle of row four between Danica Patrick and rookie Raphael Matos.
But the most distinctive thing about Alex Lloyd is the title sponsorship by HER ("Healthy Energy Revitalizer" - it's an energy drink) which has colored his car bright pink. It will definitely stand out in the field.
Two new exclusive series and specials will premiere next week with two back-to-back installments on Sirius XM Radio's Howard Stern channels: Laughing With the Stars and Dr. Stern: Celebrity Shrink.
Sirius XM Radio Inc. chief Mel Karmazin said in an internal memo to staffers that the company now has the most revenue of any other radio company - not just in the United States, but in the world."Based on revenue in the first quarter of 2009, SIRIUS XM is the largest radio company in the U.S., which means we are also No. 1 in the world," wrote Karmazin in the memo to employees.
Orbitcast has obtained Mel Karmazin's note to Sirius XM employees, read it after the jump...
Orbitcast has obtained Mel Karmazin's note to Sirius XM employees, read it after the jump...
The 3rd annual Kids Place Live Traveling Road Show will kick-off on Sirius XM's Kids Place Live channel starting next Tuesday at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The third annual Kids Place Live Traveling Road Show is a cross-country broadcast tour, in association with Children's Miracle Network, put together in an effort to raise money and awareness for local children's hospitals across the country.
Kids Place Live will broadcast from a different hospital in a different city almost every day from Tuesday, May 26th through Saturday, June 6th on Sirius and XM channel 116.
Tom Morello, the legendary guitarist best known from the bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act The Nightwatchman and now, Street Sweeper Social Club - will host a new show that will air three Sundays a month on Sirius XM's Faction channel.Morello was ranked #26 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"
AT&T's entrance into the satellite radio/video market (dubbed AT&T CruiseCast) has soft-launched at select retail outlets, representing a delay from the company's original plans for a full launch in March, according to a report from TWICE.
Still despite the delay, the company is targeting a hard-launch date in early June, although no actual date has been set, said company president Winston Guillory.
This Memorial Day Weekend celebrate the beginning of summer with friends, family and of course some exclusive programming on your satellite radio.
And so Sirius XM Radio is pulling out all the stops with an extensive lineup of concerts, exclusive performances. interviews and much more.
BBC Radio 1, the legendary U.K. music station heard on Sirius XM Radio, will broadcast two performances and interviews by Eminem and Green Day (pictured above) starting on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.
Listeners to Sirius Internet Radio and XM Radio Online may have noticed a bit of an update recently - new channels! Some channels are now being shared between the two services, and others are online-only exclusive compilations.
Additionally, Sirius Hits 1 is now being called Sirius XM Hits 1 - and there's a dedicated webpage on XM for channel 2 (though it hasn't shown up on anyone's XM receivers at the time of posting this).
Does this have anything to do with the Sirius XM iPhone App?
Sirius XM Radio Inc. made a Top 10 list recently, alongside big names like YouTube, Palm and Microsoft. Unfortunately, it's not a list that I think CEO Mel Karmazin wants to see gracing the webpages of TIME: The Top 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade.Youch.
Sirius XM Radio's 1st Wave channel will be airing a four-day celebration of the band The Cure, starting on Friday, May 22nd through Monday, May 25th.
The special, entitled "4 for The Cure Memorial Weekend" will feature a rare interview with frontman, Robert Smith, a previously unreleased concert recording and music spanning the band's three-decade career.
There's been increasing amount of chatter about the official Sirius XM iPhone App, slated to be launched before the end of June.
But will the ability to hear satellite radio's exclusive content be the panacea that some are hoping it will be?
It can be... but only if the company remembers who they are talking to, and approach this the right way.
Comprehensive coverage of the Indianapolis 500 will be available for the first time ever to both XM subscribers and Sirius subscribers with the "Best of XM" programming package, on May 24th."The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" will air live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Indy Car Series Racing (XM channel 145 and Sirius channel 211 as part of the "Best of XM" package).
Sirius XM Radio Inc. chief Mel Karmazin has voluntarily forfeited a total of 30 million SIRI stock options, the company said on Wednesday.The company said that decision to forfeit these options will allow it to "more efficiently" use the shares to "attract, motivate and retain key employees" as planned under its 2003 long-term incentive plan.
The options had an exercise price of $4.72 a share, according to the SEC filing.
For a limited time, XM subscribers will get the chance to hear Howard Stern for free - along with Bubba the Love Sponge and Scott Ferrall, to name a few - starting this Monday.
From May 18th through May 25th, regular XM subscribers will get to hear what folks who subscribe to the "Best of Sirius" package have been hearing all along.
Hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash will return to the satellite radio airwaves to host two shows: one on Friday nights and one on Saturdays, exclusively on Sirius XM Radio.
Grandmaster Flash, recognized as one of the most important pioneers in hip-hop, founded "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five" in the late 70s. Subsequently the group when on to become the first hip-hop/rap group ever inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 2007.
Swine Flu has no doubt been getting a whole lot of the headlines lately. So Sirius XM Radio's Doctor Radio, its 24/7 health and medical channel in partnership with the NYU Langone Medical Center, has begun regular live updates of the swine flu epidemic to help separate fact from fiction.Subscribe to Orbitcast
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