File this one under the “It’s A Day Late and A Dollar Short”. The National Association of Broadcasters has announced a campaign aimed at getting legislation that would require mobile devices to have terrestrial radio tuners built in. This, in theory would allow cell phone users to tune… → Read More
Sirius XM’s Successful Note Buy-Back Leads to Balance Sheet Improvements and Possibly More
A few weeks ago Sirius XM announced a tender offer for their 3.25% notes due October 2011. The initial offering was not quite sweet enough, so they upped the ante and the results were a successful transaction that saw the company buy back 75.6% of the notes on… → Read More
Sirius XM Data Services in Tune With Toyota’s Entune
The launch of Entune by Toyota may highlight services like Pandora and iHeartRadio, but Sirius XM is not exactly missing from the new infotainment system. Bing gets drivers where they want to go, but the traffic data over-layed onto the navigation screen come from XMTraffic. In addition, other… → Read More
April Auto Sales Can Help Sirius XM in More Ways Than One
Satellite Radio investors are well aware that Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) gets most of their subscribers from the sale of automobiles. The company has their hardware installed in about 65% of the cars manufactured, and most every one of those satellite radios will come with a promotional trial ranging… → Read More
Toyota’s EnTune Embraces iHeartRadio and Pandora
Here at the New York International Auto Show Toyota has a pretty substantial space dedicated to their audio/information platform called EnTune. Like most every auto maker at the show, Toyota wants to show off their latest technological advancements and for most OEM’s that means demonstrating their integration of… → Read More
BMW Apps Announced at New York International Auto Show
BMW Apps were announced by the European automaker at the New York International Auto Show today. BMW Apps is available on cars produced from March 2011 forward and SUV’s produced from April 2011 forward. BMW Apps will also be available on the all new 1 Series M Coupe… → Read More
HP TouchPad to Include Cloud Music Syncing
If you ever thought that cloud based solutions were a pipe dream it is time to wake up. Apple and Google have been working toward it for quite some time now and Amazon has already launched CloudDrive, a service for music storage. Now HP is getting into the… → Read More
Seven Diversity Channels Announced for Sirius XM
The merger between Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio was approved three years ago. One condition of the merger was a 4% set-aside of spectrum for diverse programming not owned or controlled by Sirius XM. During the process several companies and organizations came forward with the desire… → Read More
Japanese Earthquake Impact on Auto Sector Quantified
The March 11, 2011 earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Japan is something that will take the country years to recover from. Even today, over a month later, we are seeing headlines relating to the subject. As sad as these events are, we must look at the potential impacts… → Read More
Free Music is Getting Harder to Find
If you are invested in the media sector with equities like Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI), chances are that you have heard of and are well aware of the strides being made by Internet Radio companies like Slacker, MOG, Pandora and Spotify. The competitors in the media landscape run… → Read More
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