XM Satellite Radio to Deliver the Gift of Holiday Music
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2004 -- XM Satellite Radio, the nation's leading provider of satellite radio with more than 2.5 million subscribers, will deliver the gift of holiday music to its listeners from coast to coast throughout the holiday season.
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XM will devote four of its digital radio channels to holiday music beginning Thanksgiving Day, November 25 at 8:00 am ET. Each channel will feature a different style of holiday music without commercial interruption 24 hours a day through December 27:
* XM's beautiful-music channel Sunny (XM Channel 24) will play traditional
and orchestral holiday classics by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, the
Boston Pops Orchestra, and other favorites.
* The Heart (XM Channel 23) will be renamed Holly during the holidays, and
feature contemporary music of the season from artists such as Bruce
Springsteen, Celine Dion, and the Jackson 5.
* The country channel Nashville (XM Channel 11) will offer a "Music City
Christmas," playing holiday tunes from country artists of today and
yesterday, including Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Tammy Wynette, and Jim
Reeves.
* Special X-Mas (XM Channel 83) will serve up a mix of holiday novelty
songs, oddball parodies, and rock covers of holiday classics. Special
X-Mas will air in place of the disco channel Chrome. The holiday music
channels and Chrome will broadcast through the holidays on XM's Internet
radio service XM Radio Online, and all of the channels will return to
regular programming after the holidays.
In addition to these four dedicated channels, several of XM's more than 130 digital radio channels will mix seasonal music and specials into their regular line-up of programming.
"This is the most holiday music we've ever offered our listeners," said Eric Logan, Executive Vice President of Programming, XM Satellite Radio. "We are devoting four channels to different styles of music to celebrate the season, and every channel is commercial-free 24 hours a day. We have been digging deep into XM's music library to come up with some really wonderful holiday programming for our millions of listeners."
XM is offering a number of new products for the holidays, including the Delphi MyFi XM2Go satellite radio, the first portable, wearable satellite radio, which will arrive at retail stores in early December. The Delphi XM SKYFi2 satellite radio, which recently arrived at retailers, is the most advanced plug-and-play satellite radio, offering the first "pause" and "replay" features, as well as a personalized sports ticker and personalized stock ticker.
About XM Satellite Radio
XM is America's #1 satellite radio service with more than 2.5 million subscribers. Broadcasting live daily from studios in Washington, DC, New York City and Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame, XM's 2004 lineup includes more than 130 digital channels of choice from coast to coast: 68 one-hundred-percent commercial-free music channels, featuring hip hop to opera, classical to country, bluegrass to blues; more than 40 channels of premier sports, talk, comedy, children's and entertainment programming; and 21 channels of the most advanced traffic and weather information for major metropolitan areas nationwide. XM was named Best Radio Service at the 2004 Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards. Popular Science recently chose XM products for two prestigious "Best of What's New 2004" Awards. As the Official Satellite Radio Network for Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Exclusive Satellite Radio Service for NASCAR, as well as the Official Satellite Radio Service for ACC, PAC-10 and Big-10 collegiate football and basketball, XM Satellite Radio is the industry leader in sports radio programming, offering thousands of live sporting events each year.
XM, the leader in satellite radio for the automobile market through partnerships with General Motors and Honda, among others, is available in more than 110 different car models for 2005. XM also is available in Avis rental cars and will soon be available on JetBlue and AirTran Airways. Additionally, consumers can experience XM over the Internet through XM Radio Online at http://listen.xmradio.com/. For more information about XM hardware, programming and partnerships, please visit http://www.xmradio.com/.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements in this press release include demand for XM Satellite Radio's service, XM's dependence on technology and third party vendors, its potential need for additional financing, as well as other risks described in XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.'s Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 3-15-04. Copies of the filing are available upon request from XM Radio' s Investor Relations Department.
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