Yesterdays Dallas Morning News reported a story on the front page about a new service called XM radio that is going online sometime this September. XM is a digital satelite radio service that will cover the entire United States, similar to the way satelite TV works.

There is supposed to be around 100 stations available with all types of formats, most stations will be 100% commercial free. Subscriptions are supposed to be about $10US per month, with listeners able to listen to their favorite station from one end of the country to the other. The service is being tested in the Dallas and San Diego areas before being rolled out to the rest of the country.

Pioneer, Alpine and Sony car stereos built in the last few years are supposed to have the needed technology built in to use the service while other manufacturers are adding it to their units. In addition, selected GM cars will be shipping with AM/FM/XM radios in 2002.

For more information, visit www.xmradio.com

Now my obvious questions is this - can/will our empeg units be able to use this new fangled technology as well?

Carl

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