This was pointed out to us from this article from Orbitcast:

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/sirius-gets-fcc-clearance-for-alaska-hawaii-correction-clearance-was-not-granted.html

Incorrect version here:
http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/Search.aspx?search=sirius

NEW YORK, Feb 16, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI), the Official Satellite Radio Partner of NASCAR, announced today that the in-car audio of Ricky Rudd, driver of the No. 88 Snickers Ford, has been chosen by the fans to be featured on SIRIUS’ “Fan’s Choice” broadcast during the Daytona 500 this Sunday, February 18.

More than 10,000 fans cast their votes at http://www.sirius.com/driver2crew this week. As the top vote-getter, Rudd’s in-car audio will be featured during Sunday’s race on SIRIUS channel 140.

Prior to every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race, fans will be given the chance to vote for their favorite driver at http://www.sirius.com/driver2crew. The driver with the most votes will have his in-car audio broadcast on the “Fan’s Choice” channel, one of up to ten additional Driver2Crew Chatter(TM) channels that SIRIUS will devote to carrying the in-car audio of up to 10 different race teams for every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race in 2007. The additional nine channels will carry the in-car audio of other drivers based on their place in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series standings.
For this weekend’s Daytona 500, SIRIUS subscribers can hear the following:
— Live race call provided by Motor Racing Network — channel 128
— 10 additional Driver2Crew Chatter(TM) channels:
— Jimmie Johnson in-car audio — channel 122
— Tony Stewart in-car audio — channel 126
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. in-car audio — channel 125
— Jeff Gordon in-car audio — channel 121
— Kasey Kahne in-car audio — channel 114
— Kevin Harvick in-car audio — channel 119
— Matt Kenseth in-car audio — channel 130
— Jeff Burton in-car audio — channel 147
— Denny Hamlin in-car audio — channel 144
— Ricky Rudd in-car audio (Fan’s Choice) — channel 140

On each channel SIRIUS will combine the race broadcast with the driver-to-crew communications, allowing fans to follow the overall race call and the in-car audio of a driver on a single channel throughout the race. Listeners will hear drivers and crew chiefs schedule pit stops and discuss strategy over audio of the overall race broadcast. When the team members are not on the radio the audio of the live race broadcast will come up allowing listeners to follow the entire race uninterrupted.

A lineup of drivers and their channel assignments will be available at http://www.sirius.com/driver2crew prior to each race. All NASCAR content is provided to SIRIUS customers at no additional cost over SIRIUS’ monthly subscription fee.

As the Official Satellite Radio Partner of NASCAR, SIRIUS broadcasts every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series, NASCAR Busch Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race live, carrying the broadcasts of Motor Racing Network (MRN), Performance Racing Network (PRN) and the IMS Radio Network’s broadcast from Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

This weekend on Howard 101, Sirius is presenting music from Howard’s archives and will include memborable performances from the last 25 years. The music will start Friday, February 16 at 3pm ET and contiune through the weekend.

Music and musicians have always been celebrated on The Howard Stern Show and now, for the first time, all the great moments will air during this special broadcast. Listeners will hear the intimate, in-studio performances by legends such as James Taylor, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, AC/DC, Jethro Tull, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, and Willie Nelson as well as classic performances by today’s superstars including Dave Grohl, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, and Stone Temple Pilots, among many others. Recorded musical performances from 25 years of birthday shows, international shows and road shows will also air. Highlights include songs from Lenny Kravitz, David Bowie, Tom Jones, The Wallflowers, Sting and Bryan Adams.

“The Music of The Howard Stern Show” weekend will also include new candid commentary from the industry’s biggest names who have stopped by the show during the past 25 years. Over the past 2 months interviews were conducted with artists who have performed on the show, and this weekend listeners will hear new commentary about their songs and experiences. Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Grohl, Steven Tyler, Tom Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Rob Zombie, Mark McGrath, Perry Farrell and John Popper are just a few of the artists who’s interviews and remarks will be broadcast on Howard 101.

You can view the entire press release at sirius.com.

Dear Backstagers:
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I first drove five hours from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi to get one of the first SIRIUS Satellite Radios in the nation.

I was just a freshman in college, sitting in the cold, eagerly waiting at the front of the line. The doors at Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City (the home of the DirecTV launch in 1994) opened at 7am. I was the first one in; I shook Joe Clayton’s hand, as well as Jim Collins (then SIRIUS VP of Communications) and then ran to the back of the store to pick out my Kenwood SR-901 tuner and head unit.

In those days, many thought SIRIUS would never pull off this launch, but I had to prove that it worked to the entire Internet community. Hard to believe this event would give birth to the largest satellite radio fan community.

It’s been a wild ride, and I’m forever grateful to the people who have embraced the SIRIUS Backstage Community, as well as the great people at SIRIUS who invited our original team up to visit: Tom Rielly, John McMullen, Ron Rodrigues, Elise Brown, Kid Kelly, Ethel Miller, Jim Ryan, Meg Griffin, Spyder Harrison, Jose Mangin. You guys were the inspiration for this concept, and you all gave me the passion to keep this going.

However, the true lifeblood of this community is our members. I tried to model SIRIUS Backstage off other great online community I frequented during those days. I wanted to craft a place where fans could interact, respect each other and share real life stories. I wanted the SIRIUS Backstage community to be above the rest of the Internet - a quality place where you’d actually meet good friends, learn something interesting and have a little fun.

I had no idea that I’d meet so many of my virtual friends and family in real life. We had some great times in New York and Las Vegas.

SIRIUS Backstage wouldn’t be here today without each one of you. Thank you for making this place the gold standard of online communities.

Jeff

Here’s a partial listing of who will be at Sirius next week. Note that all times are subject to change.

MICHAEL TONG, chef and author discusses Chinese New Years dish on Morning Living (Martha Stewart Living Radio, channel 112, February 19 @ 8:05am ET)

PAUL PRUDHOMME, Cajun Chef, on the eve of Mardi Gras, on Morning Living (Martha Stewart Living Radio, channel 112, February 19 @ 8:20am ET)

JOSS STONE, interview (The Pulse, channel 9, February 19 @ 9am ET)

LARRY THE CABLE GUY, guest host Grits N’ Gravy (Buzzsaw, channel 19, February 19-23 each day at 11am ET)

KENNETH DAVIS, historian, discussing presidential trivia on Living Today (Martha Stewart Living Radio, channel 112, February 19 @ 1pm ET)

PETER GREENBERG, Today Show travel editor, discussing upcoming travel trends on Living Today (Martha Stewart Living Radio, channel 112, February 19 @ 3:30pm ET)

GEORGE MARTIN, World Café performance and interview (SIRIUS Disorder, channel 32, February 19 @ 6pm ET and will rebroadcast February 22 @ 6pm ET)

METROPOLITAN OPERA, live broadcast, Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra (Metropolitan Opera Radio, channel 85, February 19 @7:30 pm ET)

THE WHO in concert, recorded August 4, 2004 in Maui (The Who Channel, channel 29, February 19 @ 9pm ET

ANDY GRIGGS, interview on The Charlie Monk Show (Prime Country, channel 61, February 19 @ 10pm ET then rebroadcast: February 23 @ 12am ET)

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Looks interesting… apparently it is only a dealer installation, but it is an agreement with ToyotaCanada that could blossom into more down the road. It is just an announcement now, and installations will start in June 2007, with the exact vehicles it will be available in to be announced later.

Bubba’s moving his Friday show to 6-10a on Howard 101 starting February 23rd. His Monday-Thursday shows will still air 3-7p, and the new Friday morning show will replay 3-7p that afternoon. Mastertape Theater will still air on Howard 100 Friday mornings.

I tuned in to channel 24 today. The channel’s name across the top of the PNP display says ’90s Alternative, but a bumper I heard caught my attention.

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Update 9:15am : Sirius has put up a channel page: http://www.sirius.com/90salternative

2003 was a big year for Sirius. We start off the year with the Consumer Electronics Show, held every year in Las Vegas, to see the new radios and announcments that Sirius has been working on recently. They also debuted a new ad campaign, added a plethora of OEM deals, changed around most of their lineup, added a (subjectively) hot spokesperson, and added three major sports leagues over the course of the year.

CES 2003(Mid-January 2003):
Sirius came to CES 2003 with lots of prototypes, new equipment, and ideas. First off, we got a preview of the Kenwood Here2Anywhere, the first Sirius PNP, with a release date of Spring 2003. They also announced the Audiovox Shuttle System - the prototype looks fairly different than the final product.

They had two different prototype Plug and Plays on display that never made it into production. First was the JVC PNP, which looks freaking HUGE(especially from the side), and the other one is a Sanyo PNP that never went into production. I think the Sanyo would have done a good job, and I would have preferred it to the Here2Anywhere.

Many experimental ideas were shown off during CES. One of them was titled Sirius Data Services and provided news, stocks, sports, weather, etc. on a display. Sadly, we haven’t seen a marketed version materialize. 2003 also marked the first time Sirius displayed video over their satellites, in what look like the most uncomfortable chairs ever.

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US premiere of music from Erasure’s new CD/DVD, On the Road to Nashville, recorded live on May 6, 2006 at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. The new double disc features music from Erasure’s Union Street Acoustic Tour.

The new CD/DVD will be showcased on a special one-hour portion of OutQ in the Morning with Larry Flick. The hour will also feature an exclusive interview with Andy Bell during which he discusses his creative process of putting the show/tour together, the durability of Erasure’s music, and what the future holds for the band.

Over two decades of plugging in and wigging out, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell have sold more than 14 million albums around the world, staged Broadway-style live spectaculars, and topped the charts. The latest Book of British Hit Singles ranks the duo among the Top 100 Most Successful Acts of All Time.

On the Road to Nashville includes never before released audio and video of reworked hits and live favorites such as “Oh L’Amour,” “Love To Hate You,” “Stop!,” “Victim of Love,” and “Sometimes.” The DVD features the visuals of this concert as well as the short film The Road to Union Street directed by Rich Schlankser and Michael Slavens.

Look for this on OutQ at 10:00 AM EST on Wednesday February 14th during OutQ in the Morning with Larry Flick.