Facts About Satellite Radios
Did you know that…
* Out of the four companies who applied for a satellite radio license in broadcasting through FCC, only two have paid up to $80 million dollars and eventually have been granted approval to broadcast in 1997.
* The original owner of XM satellite radio is the Worldspace radio in America, and they are still responsible for the technology and original structural format of the station.
* Worldspace is the only mobile satellite radio provider in Asia and Africa, and they are planning to further expand their clout in European countries, with the intention of having the first digital satellite based multi-lingual provider of radio, video and other telematics services that includes mobile devices as one of their carrying mediums.
* Car manufactures are investing millions of dollars to add radio receivers in their cars that can accept satellite radios. Radio manufacturing companies in turn follow and eventually reflect a boom on the industry and a related boost in the technology.
* XM satellite radio nicknamed their two satellites above the earth “rock” and “roll.”
* Most hotels, restaurants, chain stores, convenience stores, and malls use the service of satellite radios to inject continuous music in their workplace without having the aid of operators or disc jockeys, as they choose preset programming provided by the satellite radio stations.
* The subscription based profit of the satellite radio enables them not to play commercials at all as their revenues come from the listener’s subscriptions, and not from the advertisers.
* XM satellite radio has a feature that allows you to record MP3s on the receivers and play them using forward rewind or stop, much like an MP3 player. However, you cannot download it to other gadgets or to your PC.
* A normal radio signal travels around 30 to 40 miles from their source, but the satellite radio signal travels and reaches around 22,000 miles from its source straight into your car or into your home.
* Radio shows on satellite radios are uncensored. Listeners enjoy the freedom of listening to different radio programs and talk shows hosted by equally witty and controversial radio personalities such as Howard Stern and the like.
* XM satellite to this day offers more than beaming music programs into your car receivers; it also provides you with navigational maps in which the roads are color coded according to the volume of traffic that is present.
