Satellite Entertainment

Satellite radio adds Grateful Dead (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Get ready for Dead air. A new channel devoted entirely to the Grateful Dead debuts Sept. 7 on Sirius Satellite Radio, beginning with the broadcast of a rare 1974 performance by the band at the Hollywood Bowl, the company announced Wednesday. “This is gonna be one fun channel,” Dead guitarist Bob Weir said in announcing the station. “We, the guys in the band, get to be involved as much as we can …

Satellite radio adds all-Dead, all-the-time station (Daily Southtown)
Get ready for Dead air. A new channel entirely devoted to the Grateful Dead debuts Sept. 7 on Sirius Satellite Radio, beginning with the broadcast of a rare 1974 performance by the band at the Hollywood Bowl, the company announced today.

Satellite TV Firms Grow In New Orleans (MultiChannel News)
Two years after Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, the population of the Crescent City is estimated to be approaching 300,000, compared to the 2000 census count of 484,674. The metropolitan area as a whole is closing in on its pre-disaster population of 1.4 million. In the wake of the storm, though, one business has managed to nearly double its customer count: satellite TV.

SES ASTRA in New Partnership to Step up Marketing of High Speed Internet Access ‘ASTRA2Connect’ (Broadcast Newsroom)
BETZDORF, Luxembourg, BUSINESS WIRE — SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has closed a new contract to market its high speed internet access product ASTRA2Connect to end consumers in Germany.

Grateful Dead Channel Launches Exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SIRIUS Satellite Radio today announced the launch of the highly anticipated Grateful Dead Channel. Heard exclusively on SIRIUS, the channel will feature music spanning the Grateful Dead’s long and celebrated history.