43 Facts About Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio was a satellite radio and online radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Holdings.

Music streams on Sirius Satellite Radio carry a wide variety of genres broadcasting 24 hours daily, commercial-free, and uncensored.

Sirius Satellite Radio announced it had achieved its first positive cash flow quarter for the period ending December 2006.

On October 16,2006, Sirius announced that it would be launching Sirius Internet Radio, with 78 of its 135 channels being available worldwide on the internet to any of its subscribers with a valid user name and password.

On July 29,2008, Sirius formally completed its merger with former competitor XM Satellite Radio.

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On January 13,2011, Sirius Satellite Radio was dissolved as a separate entity and merged into Sirius XM Radio, Inc.

Sirius Satellite Radio was founded by Martine Rothblatt, who served as the new company's Chairman of the Board.

Sirius Satellite Radio launched the initial phase of its service in four cities, with the first receiver sold at Cowboy Maloney's in Jackson, MS on February 14,2002, expanding to the rest of the contiguous United States on July 1,2002.

On February 19,2007, Sirius announced a merger deal with competitor XM Satellite Radio.

On October 6,2004, Sirius announced that it had signed a five-year, US$100 million per year agreement with Howard Stern to move his radio show, The Howard Stern Show, to Sirius starting on January 9,2006.

Sirius Satellite Radio's audience had grown almost tenfold by the end of his second year on Sirius, from fewer than 700,000 subscribers to 6 million.

Sirius Satellite Radio had deals with entertainers and personalities for broadcast streams.

Besides Stern, Sirius Satellite Radio had deals with Martha Stewart, E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt, Jimmy Buffett, and Eminem to executive-produce streams or channels on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Sirius Satellite Radio had full NASCAR coverage, including a weekly show hosted by now-retired driver Tony Stewart.

Sirius Satellite Radio had the only national Horse racing talk show, At the Races, hosted by noted racing handicapper, Steve Byk.

On September 27,2006 Sirius Satellite Radio announced a deal to add UEFA Champions League soccer to their lineup.

Sirius Satellite Radio aired a soccer talk show called "The Football Show" with former Metrostars GM Charlie Stillitano and former International Italian star Giorgio Chinaglia.

On Saturdays and Sundays during premier league season, Sirius aired Radio 606, a classic radio call-in show from the UK discussing all of the days top matches.

However, on August 19,2013, Sirius Satellite Radio XM reached an agreement with MLB allowing all customers with both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM receivers to hear the games with a premium subscription.

The service can be accessed online using Sirius Satellite Radio' online streaming technology, allowing any business with a broadband Internet connection to overcome any potential reception issues.

Additionally, Sirius Satellite Radio applied for repeaters in Hawaii and Alaska and has already been granted authority for 20 repeaters covering the island of Puerto Rico by the Federal Communications Commission.

In March 2007, Sirius Satellite Radio announced the availability of its first video service called "Backseat TV".

In June 2005, Sirius signed an agreement with BBC Radio 1 in the UK to rebroadcast the station to an American audience.

Iceberg Sirius Satellite Radio is programmed by Standard Broadcasting, which provides a number of additional channels exclusive to Canada; the other four come from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

On March 14,2006, Sirius added Cosmo Radio, Playboy Radio, and returned the audio simulcast of the Fox News Channel TV feed, which was previously removed during a contract dispute.

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The Sirius Satellite Radio signal uses more robust error correction on control channels than on the audio content, trading off error correction and bandwidth differently for separate categories of bits in the signal waveform.

Since Sirius and XM separately entered the market with incompatible waveforms on the satellite, one would logically conclude that the merged company will eventually evolve the signal format again to take advantage of their size, but this is a speculative statement.

At the heart of a Sirius Satellite Radio receiver is a custom application-specific integrated circuit chip called the Baseband Integrated Circuit currently the STA240, which is produced by STMicroelectronics.

The front-end of a Sirius Satellite Radio receiver is called the head unit, required to display descriptive text and provide controls to the user.

The Sirius Satellite Radio receiver includes the antenna module and the receiver module.

The first four Sirius Satellite Radio spacecraft used more traditional parabolic reflectors.

Sirius Satellite Radio had an exclusive contract for VW and Audi vehicles from 2007 through 2012, and with Kia Motors from 2008 through 2014, with an optional extension to 2017.

An additional fee, Sirius Satellite Radio subscribers are able to access all of the proprietary music channels and most of the talk stations via streaming media through Sirius Satellite Radio.

Sirius Satellite Radio merged with Millard Software and released a private beta of uSirius StarPlayr, a Sirius XM iPhone client, but on March 8th, 2009 the beta was discontinued.

Sirius Satellite Radio XM has developed a software application for use on the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices that allows its subscribers and users of those devices to listen to its programming.

Sirius Satellite Radio XM has developed a streaming app for the Android Smartphone platform.

Sirius Satellite Radio XM has developed an application for use on certain 3G-enabled Rim BlackBerry smartphones.

Commission did so over the objections of the Puerto Rico Radio Broadcasters Association, who said the approval expands the Sirius XM reach outside its authorized coverage area and would allow Sirius XM to compete with terrestrial broadcasters for listeners.

In October 2006, Sirius announced that it was launching a new service named Sirius Internet Radio that offered approximately 75 of the 135 Sirius channels worldwide to people other than subscribers to its satellite radio service.

Sirius Internet Radio is an Internet-only subscription, allowing worldwide listeners to listen to the content without having to purchase a satellite radio receiver, the internet subscription can be heard on Wi-Fi-enabled Internet radio for consumer and business purposes such as those designed by Grace Digital.

Shares of Sirius Satellite Radio XM had been trading for less than $1 from September 10,2008, until February 2010.

Sirius Satellite Radio announced in early February 2009 that it may file for bankruptcy "as early as" Tuesday, February 17,2009.

On February 17,2009, Sirius Satellite Radio entered into an investment agreement with Liberty Media Corporation.