Internet radio

Sirius XM Mulling 24-Hour Litigation Channel

John Paczkowski in News on March 31, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT

More legal woes for Sirius XM. A federal judge has approved a class-action lawsuit alleging the satellite radio network violated antitrust laws following its 2008 merger with XM Satellite Holdings.

Ford Uses Wi-Fi to Customize Cars

Matthew Dolan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 26, 2010 at 11:29 am PT

The auto industry is getting fired up about wireless technology in cars and trucks but it’s not just for connecting passengers’ laptops or streaming Internet radio stations.

Stern Leave Satellite for Internet Radio? Over Sirius CEO’s Dead Body.

John Paczkowski in News on February 3, 2010 at 6:15 am PT

With Howard Stern’s five-year Sirius XM satellite radio deal set to expire in January 2011, there’s been a fair bit of speculation that he might return to terrestrial. Given Stern’s obvious affinity for the permissiveness of satellite, it seems unlikely that he’d ever give it up to return to “regular” radio, but would he decamp for Internet radio? Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin doesn’t seem to think so.

Mixed Signals in Web Radio

Sarah McBride, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Radio’s online audience is growing at an impressive pace at a time when the beleaguered radio industry needs all the ears it can get. But radio companies, suffering their third straight year of revenue declines, are having trouble turning that audience into the cash they crave.

Sirius Founder: You're 10 Years Too Late, Karmazin

John Paczkowski in News on March 16, 2009 at 1:36 pm PT

Is it too late for Sirius XM? CEO Mel Karmazin and John Malone, whose Liberty Media just tossed the foundering satellite radio outfit a $530 million lifeline, clearly don’t believe so. So do the company’s long-suffering investors, who continue to stand by it, though their faith has been sorely shaken. But the same cannot be said for Martine Rothblatt, the entrepreneur who founded Sirius nearly 20 years ago.

Sirius Founder: You’re 10 Years Too Late, Karmazin

John Paczkowski in News on March 16, 2009 at 1:36 pm PT

Is it too late for Sirius XM? CEO Mel Karmazin and John Malone, whose Liberty Media just tossed the foundering satellite radio outfit a $530 million lifeline, clearly don’t believe so. So do the company’s long-suffering investors, who continue to stand by it, though their faith has been sorely shaken. But the same cannot be said for Martine Rothblatt, the entrepreneur who founded Sirius nearly 20 years ago.