President Bush’s 2008 budget would allow the FCC to assess fees on un-auctioned wireless licenses and to auction domestic satellite licenses, including future mobile satellite service spectrum used for supplemental land-based cellular networks, reports RCR News.
New spectrum fees, if approved by Congress, would be phased in beginning in 2008 and raise a projected $3.6 [...]
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters after an FCC meeting that the Commission would not approve a merger between satellite radio rivals Sirius and XM Radio, reports MediaWeek.
While no merger plan has been filed with the commission, Martin said the FCC would “look at anything that comes before us.” But he noted that there is [...]
C/Net reports that satellite and Internet radio services must restrict listeners’ ability to record and play back individual songs, under new legislation introduced this week in the U.S. Senate.
The rules are embedded in a copyright bill called the “Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act,” or Perform Act, which was reintroduced Thursday [...]
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It’s Show Time. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority estimates that 140,000 attendees and 2,700 exhibiting [...]
SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that it ended 2006 with approximately 6,024,000 subscribers, an 82% increase over the company’s 2005 ending subscriber base of 3,316,560.
SIRIUS added a record 2.7 million net subscribers in 2006. Based on preliminary financial data, SIRIUS achieved its first ever quarter of positive free cash flow in the fourth quarter of [...]
ArsTechnica reports that Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin raised the prospect of a merger between his company and rival XM Radio. According to an interview by Smart Money:
When asked about the possibility that the two might join forces, Karmazin demurred at first, saying that he couldn’t really discuss it. Then he did: “I [...]
UK regulator OFCOM is considering shutting off AM and FM radio and using spectrum for mobile TV, reports Red Herring.
Regulators in the United Kingdom are considering the end of AM and FM radio on the grounds that they have both outlived their usefulness, and digital services could make better use of the spectrum occupied by [...]
Clear Channel Communications (wikipedia), the nation’s largest radio chain with more than 1,200 stations, said today it has agreed to sell the company to a consortium of private-equity firms for nearly $27 billion, reports the Washington Post, the BBC and Business Week.
The buyers, led by Bain Capital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners, also are [...]
Inside the Net with Amber McArther and Leo LaPorte interview Tim Westergren from the Music Genome Project and Pandora Media (MP3).
Over the past 5 years, Pandora has listened to 10,000 different songs - ranging from popular to obscure - and tagged them according to their musical qualities and characteristics. By using more than 100 descriptive [...]
Pioneer Electronics and XM Satellite Radio today unveiled the Pioneer Inno, the next-generation portable XM2go satellite radio receiver that plays live satellite radio “on the go” and both MP3 and WMA music files.
The Pioneer Inno combines MP3 and live XM Satellite Radio reception in a sleek, handheld device that delivers XM’s 160 digital radio [...]
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