XM Satellite Radio and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. have extended their partnership together through 2017. Toyota's expects their annual factory production of XM-equipped vehicles to exceed one million vehicles by 2010.

Funny, because following the Honda announcement yesterday, my first thought was "great, but what's up with Toyota?" Well, here's our answer. The main thing that this does is lift some concerns that Toyota wasn't really dedicated to the XM partnership. In fact, this debunks that completely. One million units by 2010? Nice.

In 2006, Lexus introduced XM as a factory-installed standard feature on the new 2007 Lexus LS 460 L. XM Radio is also available in the 2007 LS 460, which includes the service in its navigation packages. Later this year, Lexus will provide factory-installed XM as standard equipment on the upcoming luxury hybrid, LS 600h L. 

XM Satellite Radio and American Honda Company have just announced that they've extended their relationship through 2016.

Honda introduced their first factory-installed vehicle back in 2003, and is expecting to install XM in 650,000 vehicles for the 2007 model year. XM is available as a factory-installed feature on 2007 Honda models including the Civic, Civic Hybrid, CR-V, Ridgeline, Accord, Accord Hybrid, Pilot, Odyssey and Element.

XM is also a standard factory-installed feature on every 2007 Acura model, and XM NavTraffic is standard on all 2007 Acura vehicles equipped with the AcuraLink satellite communication system.

Honda and XM also recently announced a user car program to provide a complimentary 3-month subscription in XM-enabled Certified Pre-Owned Honda (and Acura) vehicles.

AMTC has inked deals with two restaurant chains, Noble Roman's and Wingstop Restaurants, to provide SiriusBusiness as the preferred background music throughout all their restaurants.

Noble Roman is the national franchiser for Noble Roman's Pizza and Tuscano's Italian Style Subs, with locations in 44 states. Wingstop Restaurants is a chicken wing franchise with over 500 restaurants open or under development throughout the US.

AMTC is providing SiriusBusiness - which consists of 67 commercial-free music channels - to both for a $24.95 monthly price, as well as supplying the sound equipment to both company's locations.

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ExpressJet apparently will be including free XM Satellite Radio as part of their product offering in the near future.

It's hard to make out the full details as this info is listed as part of ExpressJet's Q4/Full Year announcement but it appears that this is part of ExpressJet's "branded services" using 44 aircraft.

The XM Satellite Radio service will offer "over 100 channels of programming" completely free to passengers.

ExpressJet Airlines normally operates under the name Continental Express.

[Press Release]
Thanks Jack!

Altec Lansing and Sirius Satellite Radio have officially joined forces to deliver a new line up of high-quality audio products to Sirius Satellite Radio listeners.

Altec Lansing will release a set of products for Sirius Satellite Radio subscribers in the Spring, with several other offerings releasing in the following months.

"Pairing up with Altec Lansing was an obvious choice," said Sean Gibbons, Vice President Consumer Electronics Product Management, Sirius Satellite Radio. "Combining Sirius' industry leading 100-percent, commercial-free music and talk and entertainment programming with Altec Lansing’s innovative audio products will allow Sirius subscribers the convenience to listen to their favorite content in more locations than ever."