XM Satellite Radio President and CEO Nate Davis is seen here alongside award recipients Dr. Maya Angelou, Gayle King and Annette Flournoy at the 33rd Annual American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) Gracie Allen Awards on Wednesday.

Dr. Angelou, King and Flournoy were recognized by AWRT for their work on XM's Oprah & Friends channel (ch 156). The Gracie Awards recognizes exemplary programming created for women, by women and about women in all facets of electronic media.

Pictured left to right: Annette Flournoy, Gayle King, Dr. Maya Angelou, Nate Davis.

Photo provided courtesy of Larry Busacca/Wire Image

Radio host and renowned social activist Joe Madison, also known as "The Black Eagle," has joined XM Satellite Radio's in-house team.

On June 2nd, Madison will start broadcasting live each weekday from XM's Washington, DC studios from 6am - 10am ET on The Power (ch 169). The Power is the only national radio channel dedicated to African-American talk programming.

Joe Madison is no stranger to XM. He historically had done his show from WOL/Radio One studios in DC for 10-years, where his show was simulcast on XM. Talks between XM and Radio One to continue that arrangement are in the very early stages.

"The addition of Joe Madison to our in-house team underpins XM's commitment to outstanding African-American talk programming," said Nate Davis, CEO and President of XM. "The Black Eagle delivers for his listeners everyday. His engaging style is driven by his unmatched curiosity and awareness of the key civil rights issues around the world."

Madison was named one of Talker Magazine's 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts nine times and is widely regarded as the nation's leading African-American activist talk radio host. Madison's commitment to social activism has also resulted in his incarceration for civil disobedience, hunger strikes in opposition to apartheid in South Africa and the genocide and slavery occurring in modern-day Sudan.

(Pictured: Joe Madison (R) alongside Mia Farrow (L) deliver media clips of a torch relay campaign to protest against the genocide in Darfur, to the Chinese Embassy December 10, 2007 in Washington, DC. Activists staged a torch relay protest calling on the Chinese government to use its influence on Sudan to stop the genocide in Darfur. Credit: Getty Images.)

The New York Post has officially retracted its story about the sex tape involving Opie's fiancée Lindsay and Bam Margera.

That's not a bad move, considering that Chaunce Hayden, who The Post is quoting in the story, admitted to FMQB of never actually seeing the tape (not to mention Bam himself said he knew nothing about it either).

Here's what Page Six wrote:

"ON April 23 we reported that the fiancée of Gregg "Opie" Hughes, one half of the Opie and Anthony radio show, was involved in an X-rated sex video with MTV star Bam Margera. We reported that Hughes was taking legal action against a disgruntled ex-employee of the radio duo who had acquired the rights to the video. We have since learned that this information, supplied by Steppin' Out's Chaunce Hayden, was entirely incorrect. There is no sex tape. Further, Hughes' fiancée has never met the MTV star. The Post sincerely regrets the error."

This comes after Chaunce Hayden published in his rag Steppin' Out last week that "I also believe that there is no sex video since nobody has come forward to present the evidence to the media." How convenient.

Maybe next time the Post won't use a "source" like Chaunce anymore... though, I doubt it.

[New York Post]