Satellite Entertainment

Miley Cyrus Star of Disney’s ‘Hannah Montana’ to Take Over SIRIUS Satellite Radio Music Channel (Centre Daily Times)
Miley Cyrus, star of Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana, will take time out of her sold out US tour to take over SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s (Nasdaq: SIRI) Hits 1 channel. The pop sensation will play her favorite songs, share stories and countdown the year’s top 45 pop songs. Miley Radio! will premiere December 28th at 12 pm ET and run through January 1st on SIRIUS Hits 1 channel 1.

Cuprisin: 2007 sees demise of jazz, classical music, nostalgia in Milwaukee radio (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
For listeners of jazz, classical and nostalgia, 2007 was the year the music died in Milwaukee radio. The generational change began Jan. 2 with a major revamping at WOKY-AM (920), which resurrected its 1960s image as “The Mighty 92,” t…

EchoStar Splits Pay-TV, Technology Into Two Companies On New Years Day (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
EchoStar plans to start 2008 with a magic act of sorts splitting itself into two companies. The spinoff, announced at the same time as EchoStar’s roughly $380 million acquisition of Sling Media in late September, will leave EchoStar Communications Corp. with satellite TV business DISH Network, while EchoStar Holding Corp. will contain Sling, the set-top business and other tech assets.

Sirius Satellite Radio Brings Listeners ‘Inside’ the 2008 Iowa Caucuses and to New Hampshire on Primary Day (The San Francisco Examiner)
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI ) today announced that SIRIUS Left host Alex Bennett will broadcast from the 2008 Iowa Caucuses and the 2008 New Hampshire primary, delivering breaking election news, voter reaction, and analysis straight from the center of two of the nation’s biggest political events.

Popular New Videos (Teen Music)
Television star and pop singer Miley Cyrus is taking over Sirius Satellite Radio’s Hits 1 Channel from Friday through Tuesday.

N.J. law limits sex offenders’ Internet use (Home News Tribune)
WEST TRENTON Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey signed into law Thursday a first-in-the-nation measure giving the state virtually unparalleled power to monitor and restrict Internet access by convicted sex offenders.