XM users appear to be experiencing a massive outage. According to reports, one of the XM’s satellites is down, and its repeaters are down due to a “software update.” An XM Spokesman has provided this statement regarding the issue: “We are experiencing a temporary degraded performance issue, which has affected some of our customers. We [...]

PodShow and Sirius are parting ways. PodShow podcasts will lose their satellite audience as of May 1st, according to reports from affected podcasters. The split is a setback for PodShow podcasters, which include Soccergirl, Dawn & Drew and Scott Sigler. The split is likely to be little more than a speedbump, though, for podcasting as [...]

Bluegrass Podcaster and humorist Wichita Rutherford tells us that he and his podcasts have made the jump from the Sirius satellite radio network to soon-to-be-acquired competitor XM. His new weekly program, The Grand Old Time Machine, debuted last Friday, April 6, on XM. He describes the new show this way: “The new show, ‘The Grand [...]

The National Music Publishers’ Association, which represents music publishers, is suing XM Satellite Radio.¬† Their suit, filed in federal court in New York last Thursday, claims that XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. violates copyright laws by providing a service which lets users store and replay music on certain devices. The music publishers argue that this [...]

Sirius Satellite Radio plans to buy U.S. rival XM Satellite Radio for $4.6 billion in stock, which could allow the combined company to raise prices, reduce costs and become profitable. The move will bring Oprah Winfrey, singer Bob Dylan, Major League Baseball, motivational guru Deepak Chopra and shock-jock Howard Stern under one roof. Under the [...]

The New York Post is reporting that satellite radio operators Sirius and XM are expected to announce a merger today. The two sides were locked in negotiations over the weekend trying to hammer out a final agreement with an eye toward going public with the merger today in Washington, D.C., where XM is based, this [...]

Sirius Satellite Radio today announced that it ended 2006 with approximately 6,024,000 subscribers, an 82% increase over the company’s 2005 ending subscriber base, but short of its goals for the year. Based on preliminary financial data, Sirius also achieved its first ever quarter of positive free cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2006. Both [...]

At the UBS and Credit Suisse media meetings in New York this week, with only two players in the fledgling satellite radio market, merger speculation follows rivals XM and Sirius. XM Satellite Radio Chairman Gary Parsons said that he considers the satellite radio market to still be new enough that two major players can coexist [...]

Satellite radio operators XM and Sirius face a 20 percent decline in fourth-quarter retail sales that is likely to put pressure on their respective stock prices, according to a Bank of America investment note. On Monday, their stocks started declined in reaction to the note, shedding most of the gains notched in November following third-quarter [...]

Podcasting‚Äôs hillbilly savant Wichita Rutherford, host of the 5 Minutes With Wichita podcast, has announced that he’s been signed to create his own TV show. Rutherford signed a deal last week with Blue Highways TV. According to Rutherford, he’s the first podcaster to get his own television show. ‚ÄúI‚Äôm so happy I can‚Äôt hardly stand [...]