[Squantos]

Are you serious ?.......:o)

[Tennessee_Bob]

Sounds Sirius to me!

[cricket]

. . .and as much to the point, to the advantage of those who subscribe to Sirius and listen to Fox News. . .

[Cricket24]

Oh my...is there another cricket?

[RWR8189]

I just turned FNC on my Sirius and it sounds like they're still broadcasting.

[yukong]

Probably won't happen. Fox New and XM just announced a week or so ago that they are teaming for a new channel on XM called something like Fox News Talk. All of the Fox celebs will be on one channel on XM. This is in addition to the simulcast of the Fox News Station on XM. They will have the radio talk shows of Tony Snow, O'Reilly, Allen Colmes, etc on this station, plus time shifting of the big three, prime time TV shows. Sounds pretty cool. They are probably through with Sirius.

[manwiththehands]

(2 more crickets chirping)

[TexasCajun]

Woo-Hoo!! XM here!

[kittymyrib]

Just so they leave it on my XM!

[Squantos]

Had to get that in.... When I got my XM I researched the two companies and after reading where if one lived in the bigger cities like NYC, LA, Chicago etc that had lots of skyscrapers etc then Sirius was better reception than XM for whatever reason and out in the boonies XM was better...why I dunno but that and the programming listed at the time was better and I chose XM.

Sat Radio has been one of my better "gadgets" added to my vehicle. Awesome form of media for road trips and emergencies where local stations may be down (hurricane etc )!

Opie & Anthony XM radio !!.......:o)

[Always Right]

But it is back on.....

[joebuck]

Perhaps Sirius is having some cash flow problems?

[CodeToad]

My wife is hooked on Fox on Sirius. They better not be series about this!

[1Old Pro]

Sirious will be the choice for those who want to listen to a washed up Stern. XM is now providing Golf, Football, FOX......an eay choice for those who want sateliite radio.

[BurbankKarl]

Sirius spars with Fox News

By Paul Bond 4 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a carriage dispute worthy of the cable television industry, the Fox News Channel yanked its programing off Sirius Satellite Radio for two hours Thursday, forcing Sirius to pull the feed from a TV set in order to keep the content flowing, insiders said.

The quarrel began Tuesday night when the Alan Colmes radio show didn't stream on Sirius during its normal 10 p.m.-1 a.m. time slot in favor of Stephanie Miller's show. Miller, like Colmes, is a liberal talker with a radio show that's nationally syndicated over terrestrial radio and also carried on Sirius.

Sirius, though, is under contract to carry Colmes' radio show, as well as Tony Snow's radio program, and also has rights to the audio feed of television's Fox News Channel.

Insiders said that Sirius first blamed an administrative error for the foul-up, though the next night Miller again was featured in Colmes' spot on Sirius. That's when Fox executives decided it would stop feeding Sirius the Fox News Channel.

"They sort of, unceremoniously and in apparent violation of the contract, took Alan Colmes off," said Fox News Radio senior vp Kevin Magee. "We figured, if they weren't going to honor the contract, neither were we."

Sirius listeners who were deprived of the Fox News Channel for about an hour Thursday morning were instead treated to a steady stream of advertisements for Fox News TV shows, including, of course, "Hannity & Colmes."

"It's nothing against Stephanie," Magee said, "but that's Alan's time slot."

Although Fox News Radio distributes Colmes' show, Miller's show is produced and distributed by Democracy Radio and Jones Radio Networks.

Miller, who also starred on such TV shows as the new "I've Got a Secret" and "Equal Time," said her radio show is in 40 markets, compared with 70 for Colmes. She also said Fox and Sirius have their legal teams looking into their dispute.

"Fox went nuts," she said. "While they resolve this, I'm back to my regular time slot."

Sirius declined to comment for this story.

When Fox News was back up at Sirius, it was via a makeshift feed that Sirius borrowed from a cable television connection, insiders said. An hour after that, Fox News and Sirius settled their differences, for now, and the feed was officially back up.

Magee said that the deal with Sirius involving both the Fox News television and radio programing ends at the end of they year, unless successfully renegotiated.

Meanwhile, Sirius rival XM Satellite Radio did a deal earlier this month for creating a Fox News Radio Channel next year. The channel will feature the radio shows of Colmes, Snow, Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson, whose radio career with Fox begins shortly, coupled with repeats of Fox News TV shows. Under the terms of the multiyear deal, XM will continue to carry live feeds of Fox News TV on a separate channel.

[cricket]

Old post. . .but question updated. . .could not find Fox News today on Sirius; and checking their website. . .Fox News is MIA.

Now this is sirius. . .is 'Fox' gone from Sirius satellite? ANYone know anything here? I have been out of town and not in my car much; so had not noticed. . .until driving home. . .

Surely. . .not. . .;^#!

[Nephi]

I've been a Sirius subscriber for over a year and losing Fox is the last straw for me. Last night I ordered a Delphi XM2GO unit.

I haven't been very happy with Sirius for a while, now. I've never been too keen about having a lesbo Democrat offered on the right wing channel. They've got Mike Church, who in spite of his name, is anti-christian and rude. They've got Jerry Doyle...another anti-Republican moderate that I've never found interesting.

The G-Man is interesting, he talks too slow for my taste, but if Rush is on vacation, he'll do in a pinch. Then there's NRA radio with Cam Edwards. He made me realize how talented Rush is because he isn't. He's pathetic. He's not afraid to rant, but he has these frequent seconds long pauses that are attention killers. NRA radio conducts man-on-the-street interviews and I swear the guy who asks the questions can barely talk, let alone ask a coherent question. It amazes me that they have gotten this far in radio.

So, when I get tired of talk, I'll switch over to Classic Vinyl and wouldn't you know it they've got a dj that believes he's the reason you subscribed to Sirius. I swear he talks between every song. Mark Goodman dj's on Classic Rewind and I think he's the best dj on Sirius.

I'm looking forward to XM. XM carries the Fox News Channel and the new Fox Talk Radio venture. When Snow was out for health reasons, John Gibson did a great job. He's good. Tony's okay, but I wish he'd be a lot less cordial to liberals and a lot more patient with conservatives he disagrees with. For instance, Tony was a late comer to the whole illegal immigration issue and damn, he was arrogant about it. Don't even try to talk trade with him. In my view, the whole liberal vs. conservative debate is passe. It's time to move the debate forward. Rush hasn't recognized this, either. I'd like to see the debate go in the direction of globalism vs. conservatism.

With Sirius mortgaging the farm for Howard Stern and dropping Fox they have clearly become the liberal satellite radio station and I look forward to the day when XM takes them over after the bankruptcy.