The Bird Is Still The Word - March 3, 2010
Media technologies always take leaps. Sometimes it’s a leap into the stardust. Sometimes it’s off to the abyss. Satellite radio has been both places.

Credit crisis reaches outer space - October 19, 2008
As the financial world restructures with public guarantees media providers scramble for their own. It will be two steps backward as people with the money tidy up their accounts. Write offs in the tech sector may bring the digital dreams back to earth.

Satellite Radio – Running Out of Cash and Time - July 16, 2008
Everybody in the satellite radio business is an innovator. Investors will endure innovators and their endless requests for cash only so long. Consumers like innovators until the next innovator comes along.

Pimp your satellite dish - December 15, 2007
Yes, the basic garden variety – or rooftop – satellite dish is one ugly sight. In a recent beautification movement Turkmenistan’s president ordered them removed. Media watchers question whether he finds the dishes so ugly or the programs they receive.

For Those Who Think Satellite Radio is the Second Coming… - May 2, 2006
Our media world is just one big laboratory now. Experiments are continuous. All the new platforms are getting the test; sometimes in public, sometimes not. Here are early results on the Stern trial.

Look, Up in the Sky: It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s the WorldSpace IPO - August 1, 2005
WorldSpace raised the target price for its initial public offering (IPO) as XM Satellite Radio (XM) bought stock for US$25 million. Both companies anticipate that first profitable quarter.

WorldSpace Seeks Partners to Bring Satellite Radio to Europe - June 23, 2005
Satellite radio pioneer WorldSpace wants to launch a European subscription radio service in 2007

The Bird's The Word - February 10, 2005
Radio broadcasters visiting the Le Radio conference in Paris this week were all atwitter when TDF radio director Alain Delorme suggested a pan-European satellite radio service might soon be launched.