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XM Satellite Radio Info
Company Information:
XM Satellite Radio Inc. (formerly American Mobile Radio) is headquartered in Washington, DC. and is a wholly owned subsidiary of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., which is publicly traded on NASDAQ. XM is one of two FCC licensees to deliver satellite radio programming.
Exchange/Symbol: Nasdaq/XMSR
Date of IPO: October 5, 1999
Date of Service Launch: November 12, 2001
Service Fee: Monthly subscription fee, approximately $9.99 per month
Broadcast Frequency: 12.5 MHz of S-Band: 2332.5 to 2345.0 MHz
Satellite Information:
Two Boeing 702 satellites built by Boeing Satellite Systems, with payloads manufactured by Alcatel Space. Both satellites will operate in geostationary orbit, with "XM Rock" at 85° West Longitude and "XM Roll" positioned at 115° West Longitude. The satellites maintain a geostationary orbit at 22,000 miles above the earth. Telesat Canada will monitor and control the satellites for XM. Sea Launch provided launch services. XM Radio has a third back-up satellite on the ground should something go wrong in orbit.
XM Satellite Radio manufacturing partners:
Pioneer, Sony , Delphi Delco, Alpine, Audiovox, Clarion, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Bontec, Blaupunkt, Visteon, Panasonic, Hyundai Autonet, Sharp, Eclipse and Sanyo.
Automotive Partners:
General Motors, Saab, Susuki, Isuzu, Porsche, Freightliner, Peterbuilt
Retail Partners:
Best Buy, Circuit City, sears, Tweeter, Good Guys, Ultimate, Al & Ed's, Car Toys, Crutchfild, Sound Advice, Cowboy Maloney's and Magnolia Hi-Fi. (I also advise people to all their local electronics retailer and check).
Technology Partners:
Boeing, Alcatel, Telesat, IIS Fraunhofer, STMicroeletronics, OnStar, Hughes Network Services, SeaLaunch, Zenit, Terk, Antenna Specialists, Klotz Digital, Dalet Digital Media Systems, IBM, Encoda Systems, Acoustic Systems, Inc., Northeastern Communications Concepts, Studio Technology, Radio Systems Inc., Telos Systems, Harris, Genelec, Sony, Denon, Accenture, Siebel Systems, Vitria, Portal, Veritas, Lawson, Oracle, Object Builders, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and SUN.
Ownership Information:
Apollo Group Holdings 9.1%
Motient Corp. 5.8%
Clear Channel 8.5%
DIRECTV 6.6%
GM 5.6%
Madison Dearborn 5.2%
Columbia Capital 3.8%
Baron Capital 3.8%
AEA Investors 2.8%
Telcom Ventures 2.6%
Honda Motor Corp. 2.3%
Employees and Directors 4.5%
Public Investors 40%
Website: www.xmradio.com
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Comments
I can not found Rush Lumbaugh on your list of radio programs. Do you know what channel I can find him on. I live in Northern California. Southern California has different stations. They get in on 640 are numbers only go to 171. Please reply. Thank You, La Verne
Posted by: LaVerne Russll at Oct 14, 2003 1:26:33 PM
My Delphi system needs to be turned up to twice normal volume to get decent fidelity and volume equal to FM or CD. I am on my third unit and can't get crisp clear sound at the same volume as the other components. Why?
Posted by: eric at Feb 8, 2004 1:38:19 AM
I am retired and my wife and I are moving to El Salvador. I just spent two months there and took a Delphi boombox with me to see if I could get reception. I could not get a signal no matter what I tried. I understand that XM Satellite Radio doesn't guarantee reception that far, but we would love to hear news and programming in english from the US. Do any technofiles out there have any suggestions? (I thought since El Salvador is closer to XM's stationary satellites above the equator, the reception would be good) Would a dish antenna give reception and could one be adapted and used? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Posted by: Fred Young at May 27, 2004 2:17:31 PM
thats your fault for being el salvadorian. XM Rules. it works everywhere god hasnt shunned with poverty
Posted by: dan at Mar 21, 2006 4:59:22 AM
XM is by far the better service. State of the art technology, outstanding channel variety and great sports partnerships. Sirius has made some bad business decisions and therefore fallen behind in major areas of programming and r&d. I'll stick with XM.
Posted by: Iron Duke at Mar 21, 2006 5:39:33 AM
