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Black History Month Celebration With Joe Madison On SiriusXM Urban View

SiriusXM
SiriusXM

Members and staff of the Congressional Black Caucus were invited to attend a fireside chat with SiriusXM Urban View Host, Joe Madison. Over 80 people attended the evening event on Thursday, February 6th in the SiriusXM Washington DC office to celebrate Black History month with an intimate conversation about their experience on Capitol Hill, the importance of African-American voices at the legislative table, voter registration, the influence of social media on the African-American political experience and some personal immigration stories.

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SoundCloud Secures $75M Investment from Pandora Owner SiriusXM

Music Business Worldwide
Tim Ingham

SoundCloud has just announced that it has secured $75 million investment from SiriusXM – which, remember, acquired another leading music streaming platform, Pandora, last year in a $3.5bn all-stock transaction.

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How SiriusXM Is Beating the Subscriber Paradox & Scoring a Better Return Than Streaming Services

Billboard
Glenn Peoples

Whether music or podcasts, on-demand listening is the greatest change to recorded music in the last decade. Yet satellite radio — launched before iTunes revolutionized how music is purchased — continues to thrive as streaming services flourish. SiriusXM’s 2019 earnings report, which dropped Tuesday, shows that the satellite radio service added 1 million subscribers and grossed $7.8 billion of revenue over the year.

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Revisit 1,000 of the biggest and best classic rock tracks of all time on SiriusXM

SiriusXM Blog
SiriusXM Blog

Are you ready to rock? SiriusXM is counting down 1,000 of the most colossal classic rock jams in celebration of the eras that made the genre great. Tune in for the rock countdown to end all rock countdowns (the final countdown, if you will) and rediscover classic rock’s most crucial cuts with the Classic Rock Top 1,000 on Channel 30.

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Biggest stars in sports & entertainment converge on SiriusXM for Super Bowl Week

SiriusXM Blog
SiriusXM Blog

SiriusXM is offering an exceptional week of programming for Super Bowl LIV in Miami Beach, including multiple live broadcasts of the game in seven languages, a dedicated Super Bowl LIV pop-up channel, plus a wide-ranging mix of sports, entertainment and music programming that will connect listeners with many of today’s biggest stars.

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SiriusXM and Pandora test bundle discounts

TechCrunch
Sarah Perez

It’s been less than a year since SiriusXM completed its $3.5 billion acquisition of streaming music service Pandora, but the two companies have already leveraged their collective assets to boost each other’s services.

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Pandora to showcase Howard Stern’s top interviews from 2019 in new podcast series

SiriusXM Blog
SiriusXM Blog

SiriusXM, Pandora and Howard Stern announced that Howard Stern: 19 from 2019 — a curated showcase of selections from The Howard Stern Show’s unparalleled, world-class interviews — will be available as a podcast series on Pandora, the most popular audio streaming App in the U.S.

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SiriusXM Goes Hollywood With The Help Of Dave Matthews, Billie Eilish, Howard Stern And More

Forbes
Steve Baltin

SiriusXM recently set up shop in Hollywood, building studios and their own venue for intimate live shows, “The Garage,” in a Hollywood high rise. To celebrate their expansion in L.A., the satellite radio behemoth, which now carries more than 100,000,000 subscribers and listeners after their merger with streaming service Pandora, held a series of special events around L.A.

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Pandora’s revamped, more personailzed app rolls out for all users

TechCrunch
Sarah Perez

Pandora’s redesigned mobile app experience is today available to all users, following a limited rollout that began in October. The update expands on Pandora’s personalization capabilities with the addition of a new “For You” tab offering an entirely unique experience for each Pandora user, along with more station customization features, and other changes. Pandora hopes the features will help it better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music in the months ahead.

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SirusXM, Pandora team up to offer exclusive playlists from LeBron James and other sports stars

Fox Business
Shawn M. Carter

Now you can listen to the same songs LeBron James does before a big game. SiriusXM and sports content brand UNINTERRUPTED are teaming up to create athlete-curated playlists available exclusively for Pandora listeners, according to a press release.