Sirius XM Radio (SIRI)

satellites.⁶ In addition to this satellite radio authorization (including the related terrestrial repeater special temporary authorizations), Sirius holds related earth station and wireless licenses.

          Sirius began providing service in February 2002. As of December 31, 2006, Sirius had approximately 6 million subscribers in the United States. Sirius offers over 130 channels to its subscribers, including 69 channels of commercial-free music programming, such as pop, rock, electronic, hip hop, R&B, country, Christian, blues, jazz, classical, Latin, big band, and showtunes; 54 channels of sports, news, talk, and entertainment programming that includes coverage of the National Football League, National Basketball Association, and NASCAR, as well as other professional and college sports nationwide; 11 channels of traffic and weather in several large U.S. metropolitan areas; one channel dedicated to emergency information and the transmission of emergency alerts on a nationwide basis; and informational data services. Sirius also provides streaming audio content to subscribers via the Internet and music channels to certain DISH satellite television subscribers and Sprint subscribers. Sirius radios are available for installation in homes, automobiles, boats, and aircraft, and Sirius also has a variety of portable radios.

          Sirius has invested over five billion dollars to date, primarily to (1) develop and upgrade its network; (2) design chipsets and radios capable of receiving its service; (3) subsidize the cost of such chipsets and radios to encourage their distribution; (4) develop subscriber-based management systems and other information technology; (5) market its brand; and (6) create

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