Delphi XM SKYFi(TM) Satellite Radio Selected For 75th Annual Academy Awards(R) Presenter Gift Basket
XM Celebrates Academy Awards on Three Nationwide Channels
DETROIT and WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Delphi Product & Service Solutions, part of Delphi Corporation , and XM Satellite Radio announced today the first portable satellite radio -- the new SKYFi "boom box" Audio System -- has been chosen to be part of the presenter gift basket for the 75th Annual Academy Awards(R) airing this Sunday, March 23, 2003.
Celebrity presenters and performers at the annual awards gala event will receive a Delphi XM SKYFi receiver, the SKYFi boom box and a one-year subscription to XM Satellite Radio's 101 channels of revolutionary music, news, sports and entertainment programming. Delphi, a pioneer of in-vehicle entertainment and electronics, and XM, America's leading satellite radio service, recently teamed to offer the Delphi XM SKYFi receiver, an attractive, compact unit that provides the most advanced user features of any satellite radio on the market today.
The SKYFi Audio System, a self-contained "boom box," provides the flexibility to take XM anywhere at all and along with the SKYFi receiver -- retails for just $229.99 (MSRP). The System contains a pair of high-quality speakers with an integrated high gain antenna and a port for the SKYFi receiver. It can be powered by an A/C adaptor to create a high quality countertop/bookshelf XM system for the home or office, or used with six "D" batteries to experience XM in virtually any location. XM listeners who already own the SKYFi receiver can purchase the boom box portion alone for $99.99 (MSRP).
The SKYFi receiver, an affordable next-generation XM radio, offers the most advanced user features of any satellite radio on the market today, and all the features XM fans have been demanding most: portability, a large display, direct channel entry, the ability to preview and search XM channels by artists and song titles, and 20 channel presets. The compact receiver, along with vehicle and home accessory kits, arrived at major retail outlets in October.
XM will celebrate the 75th Academy Awards(R) with special programming on three of its 101 digital channels on March 23rd. E! Entertainment Radio (XM channel 162) will simulcast E! Entertainment Television's Live Countdown Academy Awards to bring XM listeners all the behind-the-scenes action from 12 PM to 6 PM ET, followed by a simulcast of Live from the Red Carpet Academy Awards featuring Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers interviewing the hottest stars on the red carpet. Special X (XM channel 30) will mark the day with round- the-clock music about the movies and Hollywood. Cinemagic (XM channel 27), XM's movie soundtrack channel, will feature Academy Award-winning scores throughout the weekend, culminating with And the Nominees Are!!, from 3 PM to 9 PM ET on March 23rd, highlighting all of the major award categories and the films that were nominated.
About XM Radio
XM had more than 360,000 subscribers as of Jan. 8, on track to exceed 1 million subscribers in 2003. XM radios are available at major electronics retailers nationwide. Leading manufacturers such as Delphi, maker of the acclaimed SKYFi radio line, offer a broad array of XM radios that easily enable any existing car stereo system. XM is transforming radio, an industry that has seen little technological change since FM, almost 40 years ago. XM's programming lineup features 101 coast-to-coast digital channels: 70 music channels, many of them commercial-free, from hip hop to opera, classical to country, bluegrass to blues; and 31 channels of news, sports, talk, children's and entertainment. For more information, please visit XM's web site: http://www.xmradio.com/ .
About Delphi
From 1936, when Delphi was the first company to integrate a radio into the dashboard, to 2001, when the company introduced the first satellite radio receiver systems for the automotive market, and beyond, Delphi has continued to expand its in-vehicle and consumer electronics technologies. Delphi has a broad portfolio of products to answer a wide variety of information and entertainment needs. For more information about Delphi, visit http://www.delphi.com/ce .
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