SIRIUS Satellite Radio

SIRIUSXM Satellite Radio, with its "national broadcast studio complex" located in New York City's Rockefeller Center, calls itself "one of the largest, most sophisticated, digital broadcasting facilities in the world." The "complex houses state-of-the-art production studios for our over 130 channels, plus four performance spaces for artists and musicians, and a comprehensive digital library," it states on its website.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio is "a service offering over 130 channels of satellite radio featuring digital-quality music, sports, news and entertainment programming when and where you want it. We use three satellites to broadcast over 130 channels of satellite radio to listeners throughout the continental US and Canada." SIRIUS offers "100% commercial-free music channels," its website states.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio is named for Sirius, "the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major and the Northern Hemisphere. It was named after the ancient Egyptian god Osirus, who was represented pictographically as a dog, giving Sirius its more familiar name: the Dog Star."

The company's revenues in 2011 totaled $3,025,434,000.

Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"
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Executive Management

 * James E. Meyer, Chief Executive Officer
 * Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer
 * Dara Altman, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
 * Patrick L. Donnelly, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
 * David J. Frear, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Former management includes:
 * Mel Karmazin, former Chief Executive Officer
 * Scott Greenstein, President, Entertainment and Sports
 * Andreas Lazar, Senior Vice President, Business Development
 * John H. Schultz, Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Board of Directors

 * James E. Meyer, Chief Executive Officer
 * Joan L. Amble (Executive Vice President and Corporate Comptroller at American Express Company)
 * Mark D. Carleton (Senior Vice President and the Treasurer of Liberty Media Corporation; former partner at KPMG)
 * David J.A. Flowers (Senior Vice President and the Treasurer of Liberty Media Corporation
 * Eddy W. Hartenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors (Publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times)
 * James P. Holden (President and CEO of DaimlerChrysler Corporation)
 * Gregory B. Maffei (President and CEO of Liberty Media Corporation)
 * John C. Malone (Chairman of the Board of Liberty Media Corporation)
 * James F. Mooney (chairman of the board of directors of NTL Incorporated)
 * Robin S. Pringle (Vice President, Corporate Development of Liberty Media)
 * Charles Y. Tanabe (Executive Vice President and the General Counsel of Liberty Media)
 * Carl E. Vogel (Director, DISH Network)
 * Vanessa A. Wittman (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.)

Former board members include:
 * Joseph P. Clayton, Chairman of the Board of Directors
 * Leon D. Black, Director
 * Lawrence F. Gilberti, Director
 * Mel Karmazin, Chief Executive Officer
 * Warren N. Lieberfarb, Director
 * Michael J. McGuiness, Director

Contact information
SIRIUS Satellite Radio 1221 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Toll-free phone: 888 539-SIRIUS (7474) URL: http://www.sirius.com

Featured SourceWatch Articles on Fix the Debt

 * Fix the Debt Portal Page
 * Fix the Debt's Leadership
 * Fix the Debt's Partner Groups
 * Fix the Debt's State Chapters
 * Fix the Debt's Lobbyists
 * Fix the Debt's Parent Group
 * Fix the Debt's Corporations
 * Pete Peterson
 * Peter G. Peterson Foundation
 * America Speaks
 * Simpson-Bowles Commission
 * Erskine Bowles
 * Alan Simpson
 * Social Security
 * Medicare
 * Medicaid
 * Sirius/XM Patriot 125

External resources

 * Sirius Satellite Radio and List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations in the Wikipedia.