AOL Radio will start carrying Bob Dylan's weekly XM Satellite Radio show "Theme Time Radio Hour" this Wednesday, August 30th.

AOL Radio listeners will get to play catch-up and listen to 18 previous shows as part of XM's Theme Time Radio Hour marathon starting this Friday, September 1st at 6pm ET.

They'll also get the treat of listening the premiere of Bob Dylan's much anticipated Modern Times album, to air today and tomorrow, with on-demand streaming available throughout the week (all part of AOL Music's Full CD Listening Party).

[AOL Radio Info Page]

DirecTV is now offering the same experience in vehicles as is offered in homes: live local news, weather, traffic, sports and other programming. Mobile customers with vehicles that have been equipped with a TracVision A7 mobile satellite TV system (launched today by KVH) can now receive the same local programming they get at home (which varies by market).

DirecTV Total Choice Mobile, launched back in August of 2004, is still the only satellite TV package created for use in cars, and delivers over 185 channels of DirecTV programming - plus live satellite radio via DTV's partnership with XM Satellite Radio.

While a cool idea - the $2,995 pricetag (which doesn't include the $45/month subscription cost), plus the enormous size of that disc, will prevent this thing from landing on Joe Sixpack's roof anytime soon. 

[Press Release via TRN] 

Here's a new Bally Total Fitness nationwide commercial spot that's part of a co-marketing promotion with XM Satellite Radio. New members who join Bally's by 02/28/07 get a free XM Sportscaster with Car Kit, and the activation fee is waived.

The promotion is running on Bally's homepage, and XM has a page for it here.

XM Satellite Radio and Starbucks Hear Music are releasing a new CD of performances by top artists recorded during XM's "Artist Confidential" original music series on August 29th.

Produced by XM Satellite Radio exclusively for Starbucks Hear Music, XM Artist Confidential, Vol. 1 features live renditions of songs by Coldplay, Willie Nelson, Tori Amos, Robert Plant and many others recorded in the intimate XM Performance Theater.

Check out the complete track listings of XM Artist Confidential, Vol. 1 after the jump...

Kenworth Truck Company will be including SIRIUS Satellite Radio on select Kenworth Class 8 truck models with the VIT sleeper interior.

Kenworth will use SIRIUS' DEA300 SIRIUS/AM/FM/CD radio - the first all-in-one integrated radio available as factory installed in the commercial vehicle market.

SIRIUS is also available as a regular factory-installed option on all Kenworth Class 8 models in non-VIT sleeper and day cab configurations.

As a special incentive Kenworth customers will receive three months of free service through May 31, 2007.

XM Satellite Radio has inked a deal with Alltel Wireless that will give Alltel customers access to a wide range of XM Satellite Radio programming via their wireless phones.

The XM Radio Mobile service will be offered to Alltel Wireless customers for $7.99 per month. The application was developed by MobiTV, a company specializing in television and digital radio services for cellular, Wi-Fi and broadband enabled devices.

Audio streams of 20 popular XM music channels will be available including: The 70s, 80s and 90s decades channels, XM's Top 20 on 20 (Hits), Ethel (New Alt Rock), The City (Hip-Hop/R&B Hits), XMU (Indie Rock), Bluesville (Blues), Highway 16 (New Country Hits), and Viva (Latin Pop Hits).

Customers will be able to select these channels by genre. XM will deliver data to make it possible to view the song title, artist and album while listening on a variety of compatible handsets.

XM's announcement of the deal was very clear to state that this is first U.S. carrier to carry XM Satellite Radio - strongly indicating that there will be more deals like this to follow.

UPDATE: The application will available on all radio-capable handsets including the Motorola RAZR, the Motorola V710 & E815, Nokia 6255i, and the Kyocera KX5. More XM-capable handsets will be available.

Google has announced that they have inked a deal with XM Satellite Radio to provide commercial advertising inventory to XM's non-music channels through Google's dMarc service.

After months of trials, the new platform is now in full production for dMarc advertisers. Google AdWords' customers will soon be able to buy satellite radio spots when the dMarc platform is integrated into AdWords targeted in the fourth quarter of this year.

Back in March, it was speculated that this might happen - and I'm glad it has - this is very exciting news. I can see this combined with XM's upcoming Push-to-Purchase technology, and the next level of radio advertising being right around the corner. Targeted ads, combined with an immediate call-to-action and measurable conversion. Beautiful.

[Press Release]