XM Launching POTUS '08: New channel devoted to 2008 Presidential Campaign
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Tags: 2, XM
XM is launching a new 24-hour, commercial-free channel dedicated to the 2008 presidential election called "POTUS ‘08."
The channel's name (pronounced POH-tus... say it with me, POH-tus) comes from the Secret Service code name acronym for the President of the United States.
POTUS '08, created in association with C-SPAN and other media outlets, is the first national radio channel ever that is completely devoted to a presidential campaign. The channel will also be broadcast for free to all XM radio receivers. So even if you're not a subscriber, but have an XM radio installed, you can still listen to the presidential election channel.
You can expect to hear news updates, candidate interviews, complete speeches, debate coverage, latest polling results, fundraising status, and live call-in shows. The channel will provide free airtime for presidential candidates to speak to voters. Non-traditional media outlets, such as bloggers and podcasters, will provide content for the channel (very cool!). It will also air archival audio of historic moments from past campaigns, tapping C-SPAN’s political archive. (And there's more to come.)
XM will preview the channel in June 2007 with live XM original coverage and a re-broadcast of candidate debates hosted by CNN. The channel will formally launch in September 2007 and air through November 2008, when voters go to the polls to elect the 44th president.
"POTUS 08" will be located at XM Channel 130. Similar to previous "microchannels" dedicated to specific content (like Red Cross Radio), "POTUS ‘08" is the first microchannel dedicated to a major news event.
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POH-tus.
Posted by: MeatFarley ? | May 21, 2007 10:42 AM
You say POH-tus, but I say PAH-tus. You say to-may-to, but I say to-mah-toh ... hey let's call the whole thing off ...
Posted by: Ira Greshwin | May 21, 2007 10:52 AM
POTUS is not the Secret Service code name, it is just the acronym for President of the United States. There is also FLOTUS, First Lady of the United States, VPOTUS, Vice President of the United States, and SCTOUS, Supreme Court of the United States.
Posted by: Hort | May 21, 2007 10:56 AM
wonderful Hort...you got any other words of wisdom for us?
Posted by: NWXMDUDE ? | May 21, 2007 11:22 AM
Hort: I updated the post to say "acronym" instead (although Wikipedia calls it a "code name" as well). Thanks.
Posted by: Ryan Saghir ? | May 21, 2007 11:27 AM
I like the idea of broadcasting free content to all radios, regardless of account status. It seems like a good way to deal with the high churn - provide some free content that gets those former subscribers to dig out their old radio and start realizing how much they enjoy/miss the service. If you're losing ~2% of your customers a month(?) then there's a substantial audience who has might just need a little incentive to becoming a paying subscriber again.
Posted by: cfg ? | May 21, 2007 11:37 AM
From the Marine Corps Dictionary:
POTUS
President of the United States. Originally used by Secret Service, the phrase was picked up by Department of Defense and other government agencies around the 1990s.
Posted by: Jim Nabors | May 21, 2007 11:40 AM
is there a SCROTUS?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward | May 21, 2007 11:49 AM
there is a scrotus.
but they were suspended last week
Posted by: sternfan73 ? | May 21, 2007 12:07 PM
>> So even if you're not a subscriber, but have an XM radio installed, you can still listen to the presidential election channel. >>
Good news for the O&A fans!
Posted by: Pete ? | May 21, 2007 12:07 PM
Zero...POTUS...I'll stop right there. Even I know the joke's run its course.
Posted by: Brian ? | May 21, 2007 12:10 PM
Well, there's a SCOTUS... (the Supreme Court)
Still think the TSA should be the Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service... :)
Posted by: TVGenius ? | May 21, 2007 12:31 PM
Haha Scrotus and Ain'tOnTheAir douchebags extraordinare.
Howard Stern always wins faggots. Soon he'll bend XM over and give all of them a good fucking when you get to start paying his salary too.
Posted by: sternfan73 | May 21, 2007 12:47 PM
Now they get ZERO POINT ZERO practically everywhere don't they pests?
Posted by: sucks2beU | May 21, 2007 12:49 PM
Way to stay on topic, go-tards. Hurry up, Ryan just posted another article that has yet to be pissed on by you drooling fucking mongoloids. Better get to it before a pest does!
Posted by: MeatFarley ? | May 21, 2007 1:45 PM
that 12:47 post was not written by me.
ryan how does that happen
Posted by: sternfan73 ? | May 21, 2007 2:09 PM
FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKIS!!
Thats my acronym!
HOO HOO ROBIN I INVENTED ACRONYMS!
Posted by: AG | July 5, 2007 11:51 AM