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Sirius Satellite Radio will be your faithful companion from sea to shining sea. The company's subscription-based satellite radio system delivers about 70 channels of commercial-free CD-quality music and 65 channels of news, sports, and talk shows to listeners throughout the country. It ... offers sports content from the National Football League and NASCAR, as well as two channels of programming from shock-jock Howard Stern. The company boasts more than 8 million subscribers. Sirius has alliances with several carmakers, including AUDI, BMW, and Ford, as well as with retailers Best Buy, Sears, and others. In 2007 Sirius agreed to acquire rival XM Satellite Radio.
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While based on the same technical foundation, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio are not the same. Each offers music, news, sports, talk, commentary, and a variety of other streams, or channels, but a careful analysis of the channels exposes the underlying strengths and weaknesses of each service. In total, XM Satellite Radio offers 136 streams. Of the 136 streams, 2 are premium channels (Playboy and High Voltage), 21 are traffic and weather channels for local cities, and 9 are dedicated sports streams for college games. So, 104 core channels with 32 additional channels. Sirius Satellite Radio offers 119 streams with no premium streams available.
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October 3: XM Satellite Radio launches channel "Take 5" (XM 155). The channel is geared toward Women's Programming and features replays of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tyra Banks Show, syndicated and original programming, as well as programming from the Food Network and HGTV. Additionally, XM Radio drops two of its Talk and Entertainment channels: MTV and VH1. XM adds 617,000 subscribers in Q3 2005, pushing the total subscriber base to over 5.03 million.
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WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM Satellite Radio today announced it will launch a new radio channel dedicated to the 2008 presidential election, marking the first time that a national radio channel has been devoted to a presidential campaign. The 24-hour, commercial-free channel, created in association with C-SPAN and other media outlets, will be called "POTUS '08." The channel's name (pronounced POH-tus) comes from the Secret Service code name for the President of the United States.
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In addition to offering XM NavTraffic, XM Radio will be a standard feature on all Genesis trim levels. Hyundai's rollout of XM Radio as a standard feature across its U.S. vehicle line-up began in the 2007 model year. XM Radio is a standard, factory-installed feature on the Accent, Azera, Elantra, Santa Fe, Sonata, Tiburon, Tucson and Veracruz.
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XM Satellite Radio will air the men's college basketball tournaments for the six major conferences starting March 12. XM carries the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and the SEC. This year marks the first time that XM has carried all six tournaments. A channel guide for tournament week is available online at www.xmradio.com/collegesports
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