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FOX NEWS BACK ON SIRIUS MARCH 14th
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THanks to all of you who contacted SIRIUS and/or FOX News!!
NEW YORK - February 17, 2006 - SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced a new long term agreement to carry FOX News and FOX News Talk channels beginning March 14th.
The previous agreement between FOX and SIRIUS expired at the end of 2005. FOX News, which has more viewers than all other cable news networks combined, now rejoins SIRIUS' broad lineup of news and information at channel 131.
FOX News Talk channel, which offers news, analysis, listener call-ins, and commentary from popular FOX News personalities such as Bill O'Reilly, Tony Snow, John Gibson, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren and Alan Colmes, among others, will air on channel 145.
"We are very pleased to have reached an agreement with FOX to bring back its news service to SIRIUS and to add what is a compelling talk channel," said Scott Greenstein, SIRIUS President of Entertainment and Sports. "Our goal was to negotiate a new agreement that would be in the best interest of our subscribers and shareholders, and the new agreement fulfills that objective."
Kevin Magee, Senior Vice President, FOX News Radio said, "We are pleased to be back on SIRIUS. The renewed agreement adds to our coast-to-coast footprint for both FOX News Radio, as well as our popular talk shows, and reinforces FOX as America's fastest-growing radio news network."
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