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I hear that XM is going to move the Fox Business channel from 128 to 136 on Wednesday and then drop it in January. What's their problem? Biased much?

Professor Walter E. Williams will be the featured guest on The Casey Lartigue Show on satellite radio XM channel 169 on Saturday, June 9 (live) and Sunday, June 10 (encore). The Casey Lartigue Show is on from 8 to 10 a.m. ET.

On 6/6, DC-based XM Satellite Radio's 1940's channel, The 40s (XM-4), will re-create radio's coverage of the D-Day invasion of the Normandy coast of France. Beginning with the first bulletin from that morning, which aired at 12:41 AM (ET), XM will air in real-time NBC's original radio news bulletins of the invasion (currently housed in the National Archives) as heard by radio listeners nearly 63 years ago. The special will be based on the original NBC broadcast schedule, which is cataloged in the Library Of Congress, and will conclude at 5:45 PM on 6/7. The marathon will also feature music...

Next Wednesday, June 6th, XM will air a unique special that re-creates the radio coverage of D-Day, with archival reports from NBC’s original radio news bulletins of the invasion. This incredible broadcast will air, in real-time, starting at 12:41am ET (which was the time of the first airing) and will end June 7th, at 5:45pm ET on The '40s (ch 4). The special will be based on the original NBC radio news reports of the invasion (currently housed in the National Archives) exactly as it was heard almost 63 years ago. The marathon will also feature music of the era...

XM Service Update As many of you know, XM customers have experienced service outages or significantly degraded service since Monday mid-morning, May 21. We quickly identified the problem and are working hard to return to our normal levels of service. The problem occurred during the loading of software to a critical component of our satellite broadcast system, which resulted in a loss of signal from one of our satellites. We expect normal service to resume midday today (eastern daylight time). XM apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused. For updates, please go to http://www.xmradio.com. In the meantime, you can enjoy...

XM Satellite Radio today announced it will launch a new radio channel dedicated to the 2008 presidential election, marking the first time that a national radio channel has been devoted to a presidential campaign. The 24-hour, commercial-free channel, created in association with C-SPAN and other media outlets, will be called “POTUS ‘08.” The channel’s name (pronounced POH-tus) comes from the Secret Service code name for the President of the United States. The channel will be “free to air” on XM, meaning that it will be broadcast free to all XM radio receivers. If a consumer has an XM radio but...

XM Radio Suspends Opie & Anthony WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM Radio announced today that the company has suspended Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, hosts of "The Opie & Anthony Show" and ceased broadcast of the show for 30 days, effective immediately. XM Radio deplored the comments aired on "The Opie & Anthony Show" last week. At the time, the company strongly expressed its views to Opie and Anthony, and they issued an immediate apology. Comments made by Opie and Anthony on yesterday's broadcast put into question whether they appreciate the seriousness of the matter....

Greetings, all: For those of you who subscribe to XM Radio and/or are fans of Walter E. Williams: Here's a preview of the April 28 show. The Casey Lartigue Show is on from 8-10 a.m. Saturdays (live) and Sundays (replay) on satellite radio channel XM 169. My co-host and creative director, Eliot Morgan, will join me to interview professor Walter E. Williams. Here's a sound byte currently running on XM 169. To download the clips, click through to filefront and download. April 21, I interviewed Kenn Blanchard, author of the book Black Man With A Gun. On April 14, I...

Congress has scheduled another hearing, for April 17, on the proposed merger between Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. Like all significant mergers, this one deserves scrutiny by the antitrust and regulatory authorities. Congress legitimately has an oversight role as well. But keep a keen eye: the way in which this merger is handled will tell much about whether our government officials grasp how dramatically communications and information services markets are changing. I am concerned that the Department of Justice antitrust officials and the Federal Communications Commission regulators charged with reviewing the merger do not adopt an unduly narrow...

I'm not a stock holder. I'm just a customer. I certainly wouldn't pay for Howard Stern. But if you like/love opera and don't know already, Sirius is broadcasting live from the Met four nights a week. Tonight is a so-so Rigoletto, but there is just enough brilliance every so often that even the most jaded listener has to think, "Wow!" When there aren't live operas, they play live recordings from their archives (unfortunately introduced by the lamentable Juntwait). A couple of days ago I recorded a '63 Sutherland-Sonnambula! What would Mozart think!? ML/NJ

A recently discovered patent application from Apple hints at the company's exploration into satellite radio technology. The filing -- published on October 19th and originally filed in August of 2005 -- refers to two distinct methods of integrating the iPod with satellite services. The first aspect of the patent describes the ability to tune "into a wireless signal (e.g., AM/FM radio, digital radio, or Wi-Fi)" using an iPod-style player with "the capability to accept accessories to add the necessary functionality." While this may refer to Apple's Radio Remote released late in 2005, the patent's explicit mention of support well beyond...

Oprah Lords Over White Folk, Talks Poop on XM Posted Sep 25th 2006 1:52PM by TMZ Staff Filed under: Oprah If it wasn't already totally evident that Oprah Winfrey can talk about anything for any length of time, her debut today on her own XM Radio channel just confirmed it. The talk-show queen gabbed with her best pal Gayle King (who called her, inexplicably, "Mommy") on what is nominally King's show on "Oprah & Friends," the satellite channel that launched today. Among many, many other things, Oprah talked about her humble beginnings in Mississippi, and particularly about how her mother's...

Are you tired of flipping through the radio trying to find tunes to jam to, but all you find are boring channels with a lot of chit-chat or ads? That was me a few months ago, until I subscribed to satellite radio. With hundreds of commercial-free music stations and specialty channels like live football coverage and talk shows, you will definitely want satellite radio in your car too! You can even buy devices that will allow you to have satellite radio almost anywhere - in your boat, house, even on capable cell phones! So if you decide you want the...

XM Satellite Radio has cut its forecast for subscriber growth for the second time and reports a wider loss for its latest quarter. However, subscriber gains last quarter did help push revenue up 82 percent. The District-based broadcaster, which earlier this month lowered its goal for subscribers from 9 million to 8.5 million, now says it expects to end the year with between 7.7 million and 8.2 million, citing "marketplace dynamics and regulatory uncertainties." Both XM and rival Sirius have stopped sales of some radios after the Federal Communications Commission questioned whether they complied with rules. For the quarter, XM's...

Greetings, Next week I'll be hosting a show on XM Radio 169. Walter E. Williams will be my guest on Friday, 11 a.m. I'll be hosting July 17, 19, 21. If you've got XM, please check out the show. My blog is http://www.caseylartigue.blogspot.com , you can check that for updates.

I looked on the Best Buy and Curcuit City sites. Not a lot of help there. So, I turn to the smartest and savviest folks on the planet for advice. I want a portable unit - car and home/office. Also speakers for the latter. I have a great set of speakers in the car.

LOS ANGELES -- Four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates have filed court challenges to a March 15 Federal Communications Commission ruling that found several programs "indecent" because of language. ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, along with their network affiliate associations and the Hearst-Argyle Television group of stations, filed notices of appeal in various federal courts, including in Washington D.C. and New York. Some were filed late Thursday and the rest Friday morning. The move represents a protest against the aggressive enforcement of federal indecency rules that broadcasters have complained are vague and inconsistently applied. Millions of dollars in fines...

Since the inception of satellite radio, consumers have been forced to choose between two competing networks, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., depending on the kind of hardware they buy. But new documents show the rival companies have designed a receiver capable of carrying both services — a development that could significantly alter the competitive landscape of the emerging industry. However, despite spending more than $5-million (U.S.) on the project, XM and Sirius have no plans to let consumers in Canada or the U.S. get their hands on the devices. Though the broadcast licences granted in...

There's been a recent obsession over mobile content, from both the mobile operators and content providers. For the most part, this obsession was due to the unsustainable success of the ringtone market. Mobile operators who were desperate for more revenue from each subscriber suddenly thought mobile content was their ticket to big money. Content companies scared silly by the internet looked at mobile phones as basically a better internet -- because it's closed. However, that makes one huge assumption: that it always remains closed -- something that anyone with a sense of tech trends should have realized wasn't going to...

In Wall Street terms, the recent “weakness” in XM Satellite Radio shares is “unwarranted,” and could actually be seen by investors as a buying opportunity. Sirius Satellite Radio has its own cheerleaders, as well, but two of the three analysts Billboard Radio Monitor surveyed think Sirius shares are worth about $5 per share, while one analyst pegs those shares to finish 2006 at $9. XM and Sirius shares each hit a 52-week low yesterday (March 14) during the trading day. For XM that low was $20.26 per share, but the stock ended at $20.50 when the market closed. Historically, and...