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SIRIUS and XM subscribers will hear the exclusive music, talk and comedychannels and shows from Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffett, ElvisPresley, Grateful Dead, Eminem, Frank Sinatra, Jamie Foxx, Metropolitan Opera,NPR, NYU's Doctor Radio, The Catholic Channel, Blue Collar Comedy, CosmoRadio, Tom Petty, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, the Grand Ole' Opry, BarbaraWalters, Deepak Chopra, and more, now available to all subscribers. Thechange delivers to all current subscribers unquestionably the best lineup ofaudio entertainment today.

Listeners can now get easy access to channels spanning SIRIUS and XM thatfeature music's most critically-acclaimed artists for the first time at noincrease in the subscription fee and with no need to change or upgrade theirexisting radios. With this new programming lineup, subscribers will receivethe same number of music and non-music channels on the SIRIUS and XM servicesas they have in the past.

"This is the ultimate evolution for our channels and sets a new bar foraudio entertainment. The breadth and quality of the new programming lineupsmake it clear that everything worth listening to is now on SIRIUS XM," saidScott Greenstein, SIRIUS XM's President and Chief Content Officer.

XM subscribers will have access to new exclusive music, talk and comedychannels and shows. Here is a selection:

-- Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio features music spanning threedecades from the rock icon, including new releases, concert recordings, rarearchival recordings and interviews.

-- Jimmy Buffett's Radio Margaritaville is a radio paradise of great musicas well as live broadcasts of Buffett's concerts.

-- The Grateful Dead Channel features music spanning the band's careerwith unreleased concert recordings, rare archival interviews with Jerry Garciaand original shows hosted by band members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and BillKreutzmann.

-- Eminem's Shade 45 features uncensored, commercial-free hip-hopprogramming executive produced by Eminem.

-- "Little Steven" Van Zandt's Underground Garage and Outlaw Countrychannels, both created and executive produced by the E Street Band member,feature the best rock 'n' roll records ever made and shows hosted by some ofcountry music's biggest names, including Mojo Nixon, Shooter Jennings andothers.

-- Elvis Radio is the world's first and only officially authorized,commercial-free, Elvis all-the-time radio channel, broadcast live fromGraceland.

-- Frank Sinatra on SIRIUSLY Sinatra broadcasts the Great AmericanSongbook as recorded by Sinatra and the greatest singers of all time.

-- Metropolitan Opera Radio broadcasts live performances throughout theMet's entire season and classic performances spanning the Met's 77-yearbroadcast history.

-- Jamie Foxx's comedy channel, The Foxxhole, is Jamie Foxx's exclusive24/7 entertainment channel. Foxx created the channel and hosts a live, weeklyshow.

-- Blue Collar Radio features favorites from the Blue Collar Comedy Tourand everyman humor from other great comedians and hilarious new stand-upstars.

-- Cosmo Radio, geared toward Cosmopolitan magazine's audience of fun,fearless females, features smart relationship advice, tips on beauty, fashionand health, and entertainment news.

-- SIRIUS XM Stars features exclusive weekly shows from Barbara Walters,Deepak Chopra, Jane Pratt, Judith Regan, Senator Bill Bradley and others.

-- The Catholic Channel, produced by SIRIUS XM and the Archdiocese of NewYork, is a modern talk format with an open dialogue focused on Catholicism intoday's world, including daily call-in talk shows, live daily Mass from SaintPatrick's Cathedral, and football and basketball games from the University ofNotre Dame.

-- NPR Now offers in-depth news, features, and entertainment produced andassembled by NPR specifically for SIRIUS and XM Radio, featuring shows FreshAir and Marketplace, plus public radio favorites like Car Talk, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Talk of the Nation, and more.

-- Doctor Radio powered by NYU Langone Medical Center is a groundbreaking24/7 national radio channel featuring live, call-in shows hosted by leadingdoctors from the NYU Langone Medical Center, representing a vast array offields including child psychology, sexual health, men's health, diet,nutrition and more.

SIRIUS subscribers will have access to new exclusive music channels andshows. Here is a selection:

-- Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour is an award-winning weekly showhosted by the iconic artist that features an eclectic mix of songs from a widevariety of musical genres related to that week's theme, as well as on-airthoughts and commentary from Dylan and special guests.

-- Tom Petty's Buried Treasure is a weekly hour of musical rarities andclassic tracks handpicked by Petty from his private vaults.

-- Willie's Place broadcasts live from Willie Nelson's very own honky tonkdeep in the heart of Texas, featuring a nickel jukebox playing the besttraditional, rustic and rich country and western swing.

-- B. B. King's Bluesville features a broad range of blues and gospelmusic hand-selected by the Mayor of Bluesville, B.B. King.

-- Grand Ole' Opry showcases the best live American country music withperformance archives and programs hosted by Eddie Stubbs, a regular announcerfor the Grand Ole' Opry, popular country music DJ and respected country musichistorian.

-- '40s on 4 is where you go for the biggest hits from the 1940s and thegreatest standards to come out during the first half of the 20th century.

-- enLighten broadcasts Southern Gospel roots music based on four-partharmony featuring family groups, trios, quartets and soloists.

-- '90s on 9 plays the biggest hits of the decade featuring songs fromevery genre - pop, rock and rhythm ... from grunge to boy bands.

-- XM's Artist Confidential series, hosted by Lou Brutus, features upclose and personal interviews, plus exclusive performances from some of thebiggest names in music including Paul McCartney, Coldplay, Sting, Santana andover a hundred more.

Enhanced music, talk, and sports channels will bring together the besthosts in their fields and genres.

-- The Loft will continue to be led by Mike Marrone and will now addexclusive shows by rocker Lou Reed, Vin Scelsa, Dave Marsh and David Johansen.

-- Deep Tracks will add veteran rock DJ Pat St. John.

-- Marky Ramone's show, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg, can be heard on Faction.

-- Jonathan Schwartz, the renowned Standards DJ, will host his daily andSunday show on SIRIUSLY Sinatra.

-- '60s on 6 has a stellar lineup of hosts including Cousin Brucie, thelegendary Oldies DJ who will continue his Wednesday show on '50s on 5.

-- '70s on 7 will now air Casey Kasem's original American Top 40countdowns, as well as Joe Causi's Disco Saturday Night.

-- '80s on 8 will be the home of all the former MTV VJs including MarkGoodman, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter and Nina Blackwood.

-- XM's channel for the presidential election, POTUS '08, and SIRIUS'channel for the independent voter, Indie Talk, have combined into POTUS -Politics of the United States, and will be heard on both SIRIUS and XM.POTUS will feature, from SIRIUS, actor and commentator Ron Silver, The BlogBunker (the first show dedicated to the biggest blog headlines), and PeteDominick; and from XM, Joe Mathieu, Tim Farley and more.

-- SIRIUS XM Book Radio, previously known to XM subscribers as SonicTheater, now brings SIRIUS and XM listeners excerpts of the greatest andhottest books, interviews with authors, and readings by some of the biggestauthors in the business.

-- Kids Place Live, targeted to entertain kids aged 3-8, now offers thebest kid-friendly music previously heard on Kids Stuff and XM Kids, along withhosts Kenny Curtis, Absolutely Mindy and Robbie Schaeffer, and guests andspecials.

-- The previously announced Mad Dog Radio sports talk channel will launchsoon on SIRIUS channel 123 and XM channel 144 offering sports fans engagingtalk and interviews 24 hours a day. Renowned sports talk personality Chris'Mad Dog' Russo headlines the channel and can currently be heard hosting itsanchor program, Mad Dog Unleashed, weekday afternoons live on SIRIUS 123 andXM 144.

The new SIRIUS XM channel lineup will also continue to feature channelsfrom the top news outlets in the country, including BBC World Service,Bloomberg Radio, ESPN Radio, CNBC, CNN, CNN en Espanol, Fox News Channel andFox News Talk, among others.

Specific times and exact channel numbers for the new lineups of SIRIUS andXM can be found at: http://www.sirius.com/newlineup andhttp://www.xmradio.com/newlineup.

About SIRIUS XM Radio

SIRIUS XM Radio is America's satellite radio company delivering The BestRadio on Radio(TM) to more than 18 million subscribers, including commercialfree music, and premier sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic andweather.

SIRIUS XM Radio has content relationships with an array of personalitiesand artists, including Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, JimmyBuffett, Elvis, Jamie Foxx, Barbara Walters, Frank Sinatra, Opie & Anthony,The Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tom Petty,and Bob Edwards. SIRIUS XM Radio is the leader in sports programming as theOfficial Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, Major League Baseball, NASCAR,NBA, NHL, and PGA TOUR, and broadcasts major college sports.

SIRIUS XM Radio has arrangements with every major automaker. SIRIUS XMRadio products are available at shop.sirius.com and shop.xmradio.com, and atretail locations nationwide, including Best Buy, Circuit City, RadioShack,Target, Sam's Club, and Wal-Mart.

SIRIUS XM Radio also offers SIRIUS Backseat TV, the first ever live in-vehicle rear seat entertainment featuring Nickelodeon, Disney Channel andCartoon Network; XM NavTraffic(R) service for GPS navigation systems deliversreal-time traffic information, including accidents and road construction, formore than 80 North American markets.

This communication contains "forward-looking statements" within themeaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Suchstatements include, but are not limited to, statements about the benefits ofthe business combination transaction involving SIRIUS and XM, includingpotential synergies and cost savings and the timing thereof, future financialand operating results, the combined company's plans, objectives, expectationsand intentions with respect to future operations, products and services; andother statements identified by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "plan,""estimate," "expect," "intend," "will," "should," "may," or words of similarmeaning. Such forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefsand expectations of SIRIUS' and XM's management and are inherently subject tosignificant business, economic and competitive uncertainties andcontingencies, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond thecontrol of SIRIUS and XM. Actual results may differ materially from theresults anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differmaterially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in theforward-looking statement: general business and economic conditions; theperformance of financial markets and interest rates; the ability to obtaingovernmental approvals of the transaction on a timely basis; the failure torealize synergies and cost-savings from the transaction or delay inrealization thereof; the businesses of SIRIUS and XM may not be combinedsuccessfully, or such combination may take longer, be more difficult, time-consuming or costly to accomplish than expected; and operating costs andbusiness disruption following the merger, including adverse effects onemployee retention and on our business relationships with third parties,including manufacturers of radios, retailers, automakers and programmingproviders. Additional factors that could cause SIRIUS' and XM's results todiffer materially from those described in the forward-looking statements canbe found in SIRIUS' and XM's Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the year endedDecember 31, 2007 and their respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for thequarter ended June 30, 2008, which are filed with the Securities and ExchangeCommission (the "SEC") and available at the SEC's Internet site(http://www.sec.gov). The information set forth herein speaks only as of thedate hereof, and SIRIUS and XM disclaim any intention or obligation to updateany forward looking statements as a result of developments occurring after thedate of this communication.

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