SIRIUS Backstage

….And to New Hampshire on Primary Day.

Audio highlights from inside actual Iowa Caucuses give listeners across America rare exposure to grassroots politics

SIRIUS Left host Alex Bennett talks to everyday voters at legendary Red Arrow Diner in New Hampshire

NEW YORK – December 26, 2007 – SIRIUS Satellite Radio today announced that SIRIUS Left host Alex Bennett will broadcast from the 2008 Iowa Caucuses and the 2008 New Hampshire primary, delivering breaking election news, voter reaction, and analysis straight from the center of two of the nation’s biggest political events.

The Alex Bennett Program, which airs Monday – Friday from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm ET exclusively on SIRIUS Left channel 146, will be at the heart of the Iowa and New Hampshire political action.

In Iowa, Bennett will take listeners across America “inside” two actual Iowa Caucuses, bringing a firsthand account of the debate, discussion, and procedure by which America’s first political choices are made for the 2008 presidential campaign. Bennett will share Caucus results and all the late breaking news from politically influential Iowa on January 3rd and January 4th.

In New Hampshire on primary day, January 8th, and the morning after, January 9th, Bennett will broadcast his show live from the iconic Red Arrow Diner in Manchester. The Red Arrow Diner has become a focal point for many presidential candidates to visit during their campaign stops. Inside the diner Bennett will talk with “everyday Americans” and gauge their interest, passion, and opinions on the ever-important New Hampshire Presidential primary.

Mary J Blige will be performing live on Sirius this Friday, December 21st at 6pm on Hot Jamz, channel 50.

The hour long show, titled Mary Xmas and Mary New Year, will feature tracks from her new album “Growing Pains”, including the Grammy nominated single “Just Fine”, which will be her seventh Grammy if she wins it.

Many people have complained about the lack of a traditional christmas music channel on Sirius. It looks like Sirius is taking a half-step in the right direction: 5 Days of Bing Crosby’s songs and 25 years of classic holiday shows from 1938-1962. Hosted by Bing’s wife Kathryn Crosby and daughter Mary Crosby, the channel will include shows such as “Christmas Sing with Bing,” “The Bing Crosby Show,” and “Philco Radio Time.”

Guests on include Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrews Sisters, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Peggy Lee, among others.

The channel will be on 119, replacing Sports Play by Play 4. If Sirius does this correctly, they will allocate the station the bandwidth of what a regular music channel has.

Hopefully this encourages Sirius to add a traditional Christmas radio channel next year, or at the very least import XM’s if the merger goes through.

by Bruce Simmons

In case you didn’t know, SIRIUS Satellite is broadcasting from the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Champions Week from New York City.

Matt Yocum, the co-host of “Tony Stewart Live” will be broadcasting from the 20 car as the top 10 drivers in the Nextel Cup points standings drive their cars through Manhattan.

The Morning Drive will be broadcasting from the Hard Rock Café in Times Square from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. EST on Wednesday. (Marty Snider and David Poole have all the fun!)

On Thursday, “Sirius Speedway” will broadcast from the Aflac Fan Fest at the Hard Rock Café from 3 to 6 p.m.

Following “Sirius Speedway”, Tony Stewart and Matt Yocum will unveil their “Stewie Awards” during a special broadcast of “Tony Stewart Live”.

Friday will see a special live broadcast with NEXTEL Cup rookie of the year Juan Pablo Montoya and Chip Ganassi. That’s 11 a.m. est.

Then, Sirius will carry MRN’s coverage of the Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m. from the Waldorf-Astoria.

See these and many more details over at SIRIUS.com.

Legendary multi-platinum and Grammy® winning band Genesis took some time off their tour to spin their favorite songs on Celebrity Shuffle on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. The band recently kicked-off their Turn It On Again tour, performing together for the first time in 15 years. Celebrity Shuffle with Genesis can be heard on SIRIUS Super Shuffle channel 12 on Friday September 14^th at 6 am, 1 pm and 8 pm ET. SIRIUS Super Shuffle mixes up the greatest artists in popular music from various eras. For additional encores and to win tickets to see Genesis’ final performance in Los Angeles, California, listeners can visit www.sirius.com/supershuffle.