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The Sirius Radio streams are broadcast from three satellites in an elliptical geosynchronous orbit above North America. Beginning in 2005 Sirius has exclusive radio rights to cover the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Sirius Radio offers satellite car radios and home entertainment systems, as well as car and home kits for portable use.
On October 6, 2004 Sirius announced that it signed a five-year, $500-million agreement with shock jock Howard Stern to move his radio show to Sirius starting on January 9, 2006. Digital satellite systems usually make use of a very small dish which can be installed anywhere on the consumer's property with a line-of-sight to an orbiting satellite. XM Satellite Radio has 2 satellites in space that beam down over one hundred channels of content.
XM Radios come as an option at select automobile dealerships. The combination of three satellites and a ground-based repeater network is designed to provide XM Radio with gap-free coverage anywhere within the continental U.S. XM Radio Canada is the operating name of Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (or "CSR"), a Canadian communications and media company.
XM Canada said it will have shipped 100,000 receivers to Canadian retailers before Christmas. HD is the digital system that the U.S. government has approved for broadcasts of local AM and FM radio stations. Portable satellite radios that also store and play back MP3 files will soon be available. Satellite radio receivers continuously display the artist's name and the song title. Satellite radio broadcasters promise crystal-clear music transmitted from thousands of miles into space. When you buy a plug-and-play satellite radio, you'll most likely pick up a car kit and a home kit, to take full advantage of the radio's capabilities. A boombox lets you take your plug-and-play satellite radio just about anywhere.
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