General News

The first segment of Sirius Buzz Radio aired last week. The pilot show, “IT COMES DOWN TO THE FCC” was a 15 minute unprompted segment regarding the wait on FCC approval for the merger, and some snippets of opinion on what FCC approval will mean. The response to… → Read More

Well, we finally pulled the trigger and started Sirius Buzz Radio. Our first segment was aired on April 3rd. This segment is a brief 15 minutes, and did not include callers. We wanted to get used to the system prior to going on to a full show with… → Read More

A new Group has formed in the eleventh hour of the satellite radio merger between Sirius and XM, and they have their guns trained on the audio entertainment sector. Consumer Coalition for Commercials on Terrestrial Radio (C3TR) announced today that they were forming as an advocate group on… → Read More

Sirius Buzz has learned that Sirius and XM are planning to test “crossover programming” at 1:00 PM Eastern time today. The crossover test will in effect air XM programming on Sirius, and Sirius programming on XM. Sirius listeners can tune into XM programming on channel 41 at 1:00… → Read More

International Launch Services (ILS) announced a contract today for the launch of two SIRIUS Satellite Radio satellites on the Proton Breeze M vehicle. ILS has conducted three launches for Sirius in the past (photo is launch of Sirius 3). Under the terms of the deal, Sirius expects to… → Read More

Just two weeks after an ad campaign that expressed a “Love Affair” between terrestrial radio and the recording industry, the National Association of Broadcasters is running a new ad that accuses the recording industry of leaving musical artists “Holding The Bag”. Once again, the advertising is geared to… → Read More

The National Association of Broadcasters has been busy with battles on many differing fronts. Their battle against the satellite radio merger is one of these battles, but perhaps their bigger battle is with the RIAA and a proposal that would have terrestrial radio paying music royalties. The latest… → Read More

Emeril Lagasse, the chef known for his signature “BAM” has just sold much of his franchise to Sirius’ own Martha Stewart. The deal, which could be valued at as much as $70,000,000 makes Lagasse a wealthy man indeed, and could pave the way for some interesting segments on… → Read More

With news today that BluRay DVD has won the high quality image battle over HD DVD, one has to ask the question as to whether it is the consumer or corporations tht are the deciding factor. It was only a month ago that I was faced with the… → Read More

Opie and Anthony have just received an upgrade in Cleveland. Listeners in the midwest city previously had to catch their fix of O&A via a replay in afternoon drive, and thus the show was not live. Beginning today, the Opie and Anthony show is now live in the… → Read More