Without a radio show since December the 16th, Howard doesn’t have an outlet to talk about his relationship with his long time girlfriend, Beth Ostrosky. Many New York papers are speculating he is either engaged to her or already married.
Howard debuts on Sirius satellite radio on January 9th, 2006.
Sirius radio will be broadcasting exclusive performances of some very famous people to ring in the new year. Among those in the lineup: Sheryl Crow, Jimmy Buffet, The King - Elvis Presley, and more.
Sheryl Crow’s performance starts at 10 PM EST on channel 9 on December 31st.
Jimmy Buffet’s performance starts 9:30 PM EST on the 31st.(Not sure which channel.)
Elvis will be playing on channel 13 starting at 7PM EST and will feature Live In Concert tracks and performances.
Interesting news story about XM Satellite Radio and Voicebox Technologies announcing plans to deliver voice activated satellite radios to automakers and the aftermarket in the middle of 2006.
XM will show off the voice-enabled technology next week at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show in a specially equipped 2006 Lexus.
This will really be a breakthrough for XM if they can pull it off.
CNET’s got a review up of the Kenwood Here2Everywhere Sirius Radio.
The downside: Not MP3 enabled like the Sirius S50 and no buffer for rewinding content like the Sportster Replay.
The upside: While, not MP3 enabled, the Kenwood Here2Everywhere can record some content for you to listen to at a later time. Comes with a car docking kit(home docking kit is extra) . Comes with an FM modulator to transmit to an unused radio station.
CNET has a review up of the Sirius Blaupunkt America SR04. The editor only gave it a 6.6 out of 10 “good” rating.
You may have never heard of Blaupunkt but it is an 80 year old company from Germany that makes over 5 million car radios and 500 thousand navigational systems every year.
The SR04 comes in at 3.2″ x 4.75″ x 1.2″ (HWD). This slick looking Sirius radio receiver needs to be used in either a home docking kit or a car docking kit(the car docking kit is included.)
The editor gave it a lower rating mainly because of crappy controls, the remote was too small and the buttons on the receiver were too finicky.
However, sound quality of the Blaupunkt SR04 Sirius radio was closer to CD-level than MP3-level, which is nice.