I hadn’t seen this one yet, but a loyal reader sent it over. Check out XM’s latest TV Commercial spotlighting their PGA tour coverage.

Not nearly as funny as the MLB Spot, or even as fun-loving as the MyFi Commercial, but it’ll be entertaining to some I guess.

Thanks cb!

XM announced their Q205 Results, and here’s the jist of it all:

• Quarterly revenue increased 136 percent over last year’s quarter to $125 million
• They had 647,226 net subscriber additions in the second quarter
• They ended the Quarter with 4,417,490 subscribers compared with 2,100,352 subscribers from last year.

As a result of all the massive growth, XM Satellite Radio has their subscriber guidance from 5.5 Million to 6 Million subscribers by years end.

There’s a whole lot else announced, so go ahead and read the Press Release here.

Napster and XM Satellite Radio have announced a massive partnership, and the debut of the XM + Napster online music service. With XM + Napster, users will be able to access, purchase and download XM and Napster content. Expected launch date? The fourth quarter of this year.

This service announcement comes also with the announcement of several new XM/MP3 players using XM’s Connect and Play technology.

When the XM/MP3 player is connected to a PC, the “XM + Napster” service will match the marked XM song titles with Napster’s massive music catalog; available songs can be purchased individually for on-demand listening and transferred to the player for a completely portable experience.

The “XM + Napster” service will also enable XM subscribers to manage their entire digital music collection under a single interface from a variety of sources.

XM Satellite Radio has entered the motorcycle market with Harley-Davidson’s 2006 Screamin’ Eagle Ultra Classic Electra Glide (FLHTCUSE model), the first motorcycle ever equipped with a standard XM Satellite Radio.

This is all part of the Advanced Audio System by Harmon/Kardon. The Advanced Audio System is standard on the Screamin’ Eagle Ultra, and can be added as an accessory feature to the Harley-Davidson’s 2006 FLHX, FLHTC, FLTR and FLHTCU models.

XM fired back at the NAB’s complaints over the WCS acquisition deal.

“Our satellite radio license allows us to provide content of local interest over our satellites, and consequently, we provide content such as traffic, weather, Amber Alerts and emergency information. We are also permitted to use land-based repeaters to retransmit the entire satellite signal to consumers in urban areas where building may block the satellite signal,” wrote XM CEO Hugh Panero and Chairman Gary Parsons.

“NAB’s real goal is to limit the availability of content not just on XM, but on all providers of mobile media subscription services, including cell phone companies, WiMAX providers, etc.”

Tell em boys!

XM Satellite Radio will release their own Q205 results on Thursday, July 28, 2005. They’ve scheduled a conference call at 10:00am ET that day to discuss the results. You can listen online as well.

Gizmodo's own XM informant, Hearsay Boy, apparently is saying that the XM / WorldSpace deal is the beginning of XM's overall strategy hell bent on world domination!

Here's what he had to say:

XM technology may be quickly spreading to ?billions-with-a-B? more people on the other side of the globe. The term for the warrants is only three years, so they ain?t exactly sitting on their duffs on this one, either.

They want repeaters for their network, and XM?s advanced chipset technology. You simply do not need that if you plan to stick with a stationary receiver model, as they have now.

This could be great news for your satrad-starved readers in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Garmin has just announced the new GPSMAP 376C that displays graphical XM WX Satellite Weather data.

This is the first portable GPS with XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio. So you not only combine a portable GPS unit with the XMWX service overlaying information like NEXRAD radar, storm cells, wind speeds, surface temperatures, forecasts, and more than a dozen other weather attributes. BUT, you also can receive satellite radio on this thing.

Now THAT’s cool.

According to a new Eastlan study, 80% of Americans still have little interest in satellite radio and remain unlikely to subscribe to satellite radio in the future. This reflects similar results to the same study performed back in 2001.

The study also found that 5% of those surveyed are currently subscribing to satellite radio, while another 5% have never even heard of satellite radio. 9% are likely to subscribe to satellite radio sometime in the future.

Not for nothing, but 20% of the population being interested in Satellite Radio isn’t all that bad. That’s something like 50 million people no? Very similar number to what analysts are expecting the satellite radio market to be by 2010. So yeah, 50 million people * $13/month = $7,800,000,000 annually. I’ll take it!

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XM Satellite Radio has announced it would buy $25 million of stock in WorldSpace, which provides satellite radio services in Asia, Europe and Africa, extending the largest U.S. service’s international presence.

XM will also get warrants giving it the right to buy another $37.5 million in WorldSpace stock and an option to invest with WorldSpace and other partners in other countries around the world.