NOT YOU! The other Michael Bolton. The successful GRAMMY-award winning adult-contemporary singer/songwriter will be taking control of SIRIUS Love (ch 3).

Tune in as Michael Bolton wil be playing his favorite love songs, as well as new music from his Bolton Swings Sinatra CD, on Thursday August 3rd at 5pm ET.

Replays will be available Saturday, August 5th at 12pm ET and Sunday, August 6th at 10pm ET.

Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff will guest host a new SIRIUS Satellite Radio program, Philly Brunch, which will spotlight artists associated with Philadelphia and songs connected to Gamble and Huff. The program will air on SIRIUS’ classic soul channel, Soul Town (ch 53).

Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff are co-architects of the “Philly soul” sound, as heard in songs by artists including Jerry Butler, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O’Jays, the Soul Survivors and Billy Paul, among others.

Philly Brunch will air on Sunday, August 6th at 12pm ET and will be a regular feature on Soul Town.

Mitsubishi will be offering SIRIUS Satellite Radio as either a standard feature or factory option on four Mitsu models this fall, and throughout the entire 2008 Mitsubishi model line, available in the United States next year.

This fall, SIRIUS will be standard equipment on the model year 2007 Galant RALLIART, Endeavor SE and all Raider LS and DuroCross double cab pickup trucks.

On most other trim levels of the Galant, Endeavor and Raider and on the all-new Outlander, SIRIUS will be available as a factory option.

All SIRIUS-equipped vehicles will include a six-month, pre-paid subscription.

American Idol finalist Elliott Yamin and his mother Claudette Yamin are set to appear on Sirius Satellite Radio's Lighten Up with Richard Simmons.

The show will air today, July 30th at 3:00pm ET on Sirius Stars (ch 102).

Both Elliott and his mother Claudette have diabetes, and Richard Simmons is devoting his show to this topic today.

Jerry Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 and died on August 9, 1995. To celebrate the life and legacy of this influencial musician, SIRIUS Satellite Radio will hold an 8-day commemorative special. Not Fade Away:  A Jam On Celebration of Jerry Garcia.

Starting on Tuesday, August 1st at 7am through Wednesday, August 8th, SIRIUS' Jam_ON (ch 17) will celebrate the 8-day period between Jerry Garcia's birthday and the anniversary of his death.

Friends, family members, former bandmates and other musicians, along with fans and SIRIUS listeners, will share their memories of Jerry Garcia, and Jerry’s music from the Grateful Dead, as well as his many side projects, will also be featured. Jam_ON's host Buddy Cage, who was a close friend of Garcia’s and replaced him in the legendary jam band New Riders of the Purple Sage, will also contribute.

The SIRIUS Starmate Replay was the top selling plug-and-play satellite radio receiver from June 2005 to May 2006, according to The NPD Group. Pretty interesting considering that it was just introduced in September of 2005.

The Starmate Replay beat out the XM Roady2 by 1 percentage point.

Below is the NPD Group's top 10 plug-and-play satellite radio receivers in order of unit volume share at retail (June 05 - May 06):

1. Sirius Starmate Replay
   
2. XM Delphi Roady2
   
3. Sirius Sportster Replay
   
4. XM Delphi SkyFi2
   
5. Sirius XACT Communication (sic. I assume the Visor?)
   
6. Sirius Starmate
   
7. XM Delphi Roady XT
   
8. Sirius Sportster
   
9. SV1 Sirius One
   
10. XMC10 XM Receiver

Satellite Radio Superstore has listed a new upcoming Sirius receiver, the SL10 Sirius Stiletto.

The SL10 is expected to be a "stripped down version" of the Sirius Stiletto SL100-TK1 according to the listing, but there's no other information available as of yet.

Can't make it to Memphis to partake in the enjoyment of Elvis Week? Well stop your crying, because Elvis Radio, SIRIUS' all-Elvis-all-the-time channel, will be covering the annual celebration from August 8th through August 16th to commemorate Elvis's death on August 16, 1977.

Hosted by George Klein (a close friend of Elvis's and regular Elvis Radio host), you'll get a slew of in-depth reports, celebrity guest DJs, and fan interviews throughout the week.

The event is punctuated with the annual Candlelight Vigil, where thousands of fans carry lit candles to Elvis's gravesite at Graceland.

Check out the riveting schedule after the jump... 

Recent commentary on CNN Money, XM faces the music, features an interesting debate about the possibility of a merger/takeover of XM Satellite Radio. Generally I dismiss most merger talks, especially since the recent misquoting of Mel Karmazin's "love" for buying XM is the basis for such debates, but this article doesn't just wax poetically about the subject. It explores step-by-step the different scenarios under which a takeover/merger could happen.

Great food for thought, but still just a pipe dream in my opinion. But hey, that's just me.

Here's some questions I'd like to pose those who do support this concept: would an XM+Sirius Merger actually help the consumer? Would it be a validation that the satellite radio industry is a viable form of media, or just the opposite? Does having XM and Sirius merge actually strengthen satellite radio's position against terrestrial radio, or would a single company have a harder time convincing the market that radio is something worth paying for? And what of the OEM channel, what reprocussions would there be in the relationships between auto manufacturers and each satcaster should the merge?

[CNN Money]
Thanks Britt & Bob!

1981. Ronald Reagan became president, the Delorean was born, mass quantities of yayo flowed over our borders, and of course, MTV launched on August 1st.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio will pay tribute to the historic impact that MTV has had on music and culture, with four of MTV's original VJs recalling the occassion on SIRIUS Big 80s (ch 8). SIRIUS' own on-air hosts - Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn - will all celebrate the launch of MTV with a special two-hour show: Big '80s Celebrates MTV at 25.

The four will share their memories of MTV’s launch and play songs from the videos the then-new cable channel aired during its first few hours of existence. Goodman, Hunter, Blackwood and Quinn, along with the late J.J. Jackson, were the five original faces and voices of MTV when it debuted on August 1, 1981.

Big ‘80s Celebrates MTV at 25 will replay on August 1st at 4pm and at 9pm ET, and on August 2nd at 3am ET.