Sirius Satellite Radio's OutQ (Sirius channel 106) will count down the 100 "hottest" songs of the year from GLBT artists in the Sirius OutQ's Hot 100, hosted by Jeremy Hovies, airing on New Year’s Eve at 11am ET.

If you miss the excitement on New Year's Eve, no worries, OutQ's Hot 100 will be repeated on New Year’s Day at 11am ET. OMG!

(Anyone suggestions on how to change the headline of this post?)

SIRIUS Satellite Radio will ring in 2006 with broadcasts of exclusive performances New Year's Eve by Jimmy Buffett, G. Love & Special Sauce, Patti Smith & Her Band, Sheryl Crow, and of course... Elvis Presley.

Check out full concert details after the jump...

That's what BoA's Jonathan Jacoby is saying. Compare that to the 3,900 subscribers a day in Q3. Not too shabby. :)

[Inside Radio]

UPDATE: If you're waiting on XM Satellite Radio's subscriber announcement, you'll have to wait until January 4th [via Business Week] 

SIRIUS Satellite Radio has just announced that they've surpased 3 million subscribers and expect "a strong year end."

Details are limited right now, but as soon as more info comes in, you'll be sure to see it here. 

UPDATE: Bear Sterns analyst Robert S. Peck expects that SIRIUS hit the 3 million mark on December 20th, bringing the total subscriber count for this quarter to 930,000. He also expects that XM will hit 6 million on December 26th, bringing the total net adds for this quarter to 1.02 million. [New Ratings]

UPDATE 2: The lack of information in the press release has left a lot of room for speculation (genius) - with chatter of 3.5 million by January 31st being whispered about. If you're looking for more media coverage, MSNBC has a slightly more colorful take on the whole thing.

According to Hitwise, interest in satellite radio has increased as the holidays approached. Searches containing the word “sirius” surged 78% when comparing the week ending December 17, 2005 to the week before Thanksgiving, while the share of searches containing “xm” were up 13% in the same period.

Hitwise also reports that the market share of visits to Sirius Satellite Radio increased 99% and share of visits to XM Satellite Radio increased 62% for the same period.

[Tekrati] 

Some very impressive numbers here - Yahoo! announced that over 4.4 Million video streams of Howard Stern's Farewell Celebration were streamed on the day of the event. More than 214,000 users stuck around to watch the 4.5 hour party after his final terrestrial broadcast.

Yahoo! promoted the crap out of the event, and it definitely paid off. More than 10,000 new Yahoo! Group members, more than 1,100 photos were shared via Flickr (which were viewed half a million times) and over 122,000 Yahoo! Podcast streams in association with the HowardNation community.

[Press Release] 

SIRIUS Satellite Radio will broadcast 12 live college football bowl games during the 2005-06 post-season, including all four games of the Bowl Championship Series

SIRIUS’ coverage will begin tomorrow, December 22nd, when Colorado State plays Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl at 10:30pm ET on SIRIUS’ Channel 125 and continues through Wednesday, January 4th, when the top two teams in the nation: the defending national champion USC Trojans (led by Heisman-winning running back Reggie Bush... and cheerleaders) and the Texas Longhorns (QB'd by Heisman runner-up Vince Young) face off in The Rose Bowl at 8:00pm ET on SIRIUS’ Channel 123.

From January 2 – 4, SIRIUS will broadcast all four of the Bowl Championship Series games: The Rose Bowl, FedEx Orange Bowl, Nokia Sugar Bowl and Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Check out the full schedule after the jump...

[Press Release]
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UPDATE: A reader pointed out that XM is covering all BCS games (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta) on ESPN Radio at their respective times and dates.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio broadcast live the Christmas Midnight Mass and the Christmas Day Mass from the historic Cathedral of Saint Patrick in New York City on Sunday, December 25th.

Tune into the Christmas Midnight Mass live on Sunday at 12am ET on SIRIUS Channel 86, or catch the re-broadcast at 12am PT (3am ET). Tickets to attend this popular mass are no longer available to the public.

Then, later that Sunday, listen to the Christmas Day Mass live at 10:15am ET also on SIRIUS Channel 86 with the re-broadcast on Channel 85 at 10:15 am PT (1:15 pm ET).

[Press Release] 

Yesterday on Don & Mike's show, it was revealed that they won't be making the jump to satellite radio as previously suspected. They confirmed that they did infact have discussions with Mel Karmazin, but they won't be joining SIRIUS anytime soon - at least while they under contract with Infinity/CBS Radio.

[DCRTV vs Get Sirius Info] 

Here's photos from the Howard Stern / SIRIUS Farewell Rally.