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• TSS Radio
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• Satellite Radio Superstore
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There's one more week left for you to vote for your favorite Satellite Radio channels, shows, and on-air hosts in the 2007 Orbitcast Awards (The Orbies).

Here's some highlights of the current standings:

Best Comedy Talk Show - Opie & Anthony lead in 1st place, Ron & Fez in 2nd place, and The Howard Stern Show in 3rd place.
Best New Device - The XM Xpress RC has a pretty significant lead over the Sirius Stiletto 2.
Best Kept Secret on Satellite Radio - By far this is the most active category, with High Society leading in 1st, followed closely by Than & Sam in 2nd place, and Ron & Fez in a distant 3rd place.
Best Music DJ - KB leads in 1st place, Zoltar in 2nd, with Kandy Klutch in a very close 3rd place.

Voting ends on Saturday, February 9th - so get those votes in before time runs out.

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The first-annual Orbitcast Awards (aka, the "Orbies") is now open for voting. Your nominations have been submitted and now it's time to put them to the vote.

By far the categories with the most individual nominees are The Best Kept Secret on Satellite Radio and The Best Music DJ.

Best Music Show, Best "Go To" Channel, and of course Best Comedy Talk Show (complete with everyone's favorite smattering of shock-jocks) also received their own fair share of attention during the nomination phase. So make sure to cast your votes soon before they close.

Voting closes on Saturday, February 9th.

Remember, this is a 100% "People's Voice" award, which is completely driven by your nominations and your votes. Satellite radio deserves its own award to give the talent behind Sirius' and XM's mics the recognition they deserve.

So cast your vote today!

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Nominations for the first-annual Orbitcast Awards (aka "The Orbies") will close on Wednesday, January 16th at 12:00 pm ET. After which nominees will be gathered together and we will open it up to final voting.

So if you have a favorite Comedy Talk Show, Music Show, or want the world to know about the Best Kept Secret in Satellite Radio - hop on over and nominate them before it's too late (and you have to wait another year).

The 2007 Orbitcast Awards are a chance for shows, channels, and talent on both Sirius and XM to get the recognition they deserve from their most dedicated fans. Satellite radio has such an incredible range of appeal, and depth of content, that it deserves its own award - and this is it.

So what are you waiting for? Nominate your favorites today.

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Below are the top 20 Orbitcast posts from 2007 in terms of unique visits to each article page. I'm not saying that these are the "best of" Orbitcast posts - hardly - just the ones that garnered the most attention around the interweb.

So without further adieu, the winners (in order) are:

1. Audio: Opie & Anthony comments that caused XM suspension
2. XM subscribers backlash over O&A suspension
3. Sirius renews contract with Bubba the Love Sponge
4. 25 years of music from The Howard Stern Show
5. OFFICIAL: Sirius and XM Announce Merger
6. Sirius Beats 6 Million Subscribers and First Cash-Flow Positive Quarter
7. CES: SiriusConnect SC-V1 Audio/Video Tuner (Sirius Backseat TV)
8. New Pioneer AVIC-D3 Unveiled
9. Sponsors pull advertising over O&A suspension
10. Did Opie & Anthony cross the line with Condi Rice?
11. Howard Stern engaged to Beth O
12. Not just Sirius: Bubba returns to Regular Radio
13. XM-Sirius Merger Plans to be Announced Today?
14. BREAKING: Is XM down?
15. BREAKING: XM suspends Opie and Anthony
16. CES: Bushnell ONIX 400 Weather Tracker
17. Report: DoJ Antitrust Chief to approve merger
18. Penny Crone, George Flowers Leave Howard 100 News
19. CES: XM's New Mini-Tuner Car Stereos
20. Arbitron ratings for Satellite Radio

It's amazing when you look back. All the crazy events that occured in such a short amount of time. For an industry that - in the grand scheme of things - is relatively small, satellite radio sure has its fair share of stories to tell.

Happy New Year everyone! See you "next year" (yuk yuk).

Orbitcast Radio was a complete hit, and did 10-times better than I ever could have expected. Thank you all for who called in, participated in the chat room (which is still booming right now as I write this), and especially who listened in.

This will definitely be an ongoing weekly show, and obviously I'll need to make it longer. Let's try 1-hour next time and see how it goes.

If you want to download the show, click here for the streaming or MP3 version. Or if you want, subscribe to the RSS feed so you can download it as a podcast.

Or try out the player below:

Again, thanks all for the incredible debut show, and feel free to comment here on your thoughts (such as: a better day/time, topics, criticism, etc.).

UPDATE: Here's a direct link to the MP3 file.

Before I kick off Orbitcast Radio today, I also wanted to announce that nominations for the 2007 Orbitcast Awards (aka "The Orbies") are now open.

This is entirely a People's Voice award. There's no editorial influence or bias here. The channels, shows, on-air hosts, and everything else selected here is 100% powered by you.

Categories include:

• Best Comedy Talk Show
• Best Kept Secret on Satellite Radio
• Best Music Show
• Most Creative Music Channel
• ...and much much more

I figure that since everyone else can have their own awards "show" - the satellite radio industry deserves one as well. There's some amazing talent coming from those birds, and it's about time that everyone on both Sirius and XM gets recognition for all their hard work and effort.

Nominations are open now, head on over and submit your favorites today.

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Here we go folks! Today is the official launch of the Orbitcast Forums.

I've always considered your comments and feedback to be an integral and important part of this blog (and so does the NAB), but the conversation has been limited to the posts. As a result, I've always felt like something was missing: the ability for the conversation to extend beyond the blog. For you to take control of the discussion.

That's what the Orbitcast Forums are for. There you can share, debate and - of course - spread rumors with the rest of the satellite radio community. And a place where both Sirius and XM fans, investors, and industry watchers have a voice. No egos. No power trips. No censorship. It's a place meant for open, free and (nearly) intelligent conversation.

As interesting discussions come up, they will be linked to directly from the main Orbitcast blog.

We quietly opened up the Orbitcast Forums last week as a "private beta" to gather some initial feedback from the community. Because again, I feel very strongly that a message board is nothing without its members and I want it to be the best it can be. So the forums have, and will continue to evolve over time.

There's a permanent link to the forums in the navigation bar up top, or you can access them directly at orbitcast.com/forums. See you there!

Tomorrow, September 1st, Orbitcast will be launching a new feature that will conjoin a convoluted cacophony of confusion with a mashup of mass mayhem and madness. We've secretly been testing it out, and thanks to help of a select few readers, we're finally ready to launch.

But rather than have ME talk about it... let's see what others in the satellite radio industry are saying....

...check back tomorrow, when all will be revealed.