Canadian football fans will be excited to learn of Sirius Radio Canada’s plans to expand their coverage of the upcoming 2009 Canadian Football League (CFL) season.

Every game will be covered by the satellite broadcaster, from practice straight through until the last minutes of the 97th Grey Cup in Calgary. As per an agreement between Sirius and the CFL, fans should look forward to a bright future with Canadian football and satellite radio.

Each CFL team will have its games aired on Sirius Radio Canada with play-by-play commentary by top sports hosts on select stations, a process that will ultimately provide fans with the most extensive CFL coverage yet available.

[Via Newswire]

Yet another celebrity host has joined the ranks of Sirius XM Radio as well-known comedian/talk-shoe host Rosie O’Donnell gets set to premier her brand new program, Rosie Radio.

O’Donnell got her start as an outspoken stand-up comedian and actress, eventually landing her own morning talk-show. After vanishing from media for some time, O’Donnell returned to television as a co-host of The View.

Now Rosie Radio will see the star returning to chat entertainment every day on Sirius XM Radio. The program is set to debut this fall, airing Monday through Friday from 10am-noon EST on Sirus XM Stars (Sirius channel 102 and XM channel 155).

[Via Digital Home Forums]

Finally a bit of good news has arrived for those still hurting from the exclusion of Canadian support with the official Sirius XM iPhone App: an updated edition of WunderRadio.

The developers have announced new details of WunderRadio V1.8 through Twitter, detailing advances in audio support (improved MP3 and AAC buffering), stability, and, perhaps most exciting to those of us north of the border, improved support for the oft-ignored Sirius Canada.

The iPhone (and iPod Touch) App is centred on streaming internet radio stations to the mobile device and is available from the Canadian iTunes Store for $6.99.

[Via Digital Home Forums]

This week has finally provided resolution to rumours circling the internet regarding the conspicuous absence of Howard Stern from the recently launched official Sirius XM iPhone App.

After Orbitcast was able to confirm that news coming from Stern show’s Gary Dell’Abate’s (Baba Booey) Twitter account was, in fact, fake and that the real scoop on Stern’s absence was far less colourful than the rumours suggested.

Stern himself confirmed that his programming was left out due to nothing more than a legal snafu involving some red tape involving rights issues. The fact that Sirius XM still showed Howard 100 as an included channel to investors however makes many still wonder whether Stern’s programming is just delayed rather than ruled out entirely.

[Via Orbitcast]

Volkswagen and Sirius Radio have teamed up to provide one of the best deals on used cars sales and satellite radio service yet offered with a brand new deal recently launched by the companies.

VW has announced to press that it is now providing a complementary 3-month trial of the Sirius Everything package with the purchase of any 2007 (or newer), Certified Pre-Loved models.

Most of these models come equipped with a Sirius satellite receiver regardless (although it’s worth checking if your favourite model comes with a standard receiver or not) and it just seems good business sense to provide such a promotion in light of the Acura, Honda and GM partnership with XM Radio.

[Via Orbitcast]

Things continue to look up for Sirius XM Radio with the continued success of its long awaited (and highly anticipated) official iPhone App on the iTunes App Store ratings.

After only twelve hours of download availability the App went on to become the #1 free music application for iPhone users, beating out such longtime favourites as Pandora and Slacker Radio. The App was also declared as the sixth most downloaded free iTunes App of all time.

Even with a lack of Canadian support (and a Howard Stern channel) it continues to appear that Sirius XM has struck a home run in the release of their official App.

Not too shabby, Sirius.

[Via Orbitcast]

While the first week of reviews for Sirius XM’s official iPhone App have been mostly positive, many downloaders are still puzzled as to the absence of Howard Stern from the channel listing.

The App has enjoyed almost universal praise and the endorsement of an unprecedented number of iPhone owners but fans are still clamouring for the addition of Stern to the 120 channel line-up.

It seems almost too big of an oversight to credit as a mistake, a fact that makes many observers hopeful that a Stern channel may be forthcoming and that the exclusion is merely due to legal red tape still uncleared.

[Via Orbitcast]

Sirius XM has provided a bittersweet week for Canadian fans of satellite radio, releasing the long anticipated official iPhone App . . . but denying it to subscribers north of the US border.

The iTunes app provides access to 120 satellite radio channels and is available free. It touts all of the features that Sirius XM fans have been awaiting so anxiously and has been marked as the #1 free iTunes download due to immense popularity.

Unfortunately Canadians will have to hope for the acclaimed download to warrant a release apart from the American iTunes App Store if we want to check it out ourselves. Since there has been no official word on a release here in the north we’ll all simply have to wait and keep our fingers crossed.

[Via Digital Home]

Immensely popular group the Jonas Brothers recently provided their rabid fans with a special treat as they headed to the Sirius XM Radio studios for a full weekend of airtime.

The Brothers spent almost three days on the Sirius XM Hits 1 and XM’s 20 on 20 channels, giving interviews, performances and helping out on hosting duties on the station’s previous weekend (June 12th-14th). The time revealed much about the Jonas Brothers’ personal lives and the work poured into their newest album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times.

Look out for encore presentations of the special broadcasts on Sirius XM Hits 1 (Sirius channel 1) and XM’s 20 on 20 (XM channel 20).

[Via Orbitcast]

Sirius Radio Canada continues to offer further details on their coverage of the almost complete music/film festival North by Northeast as it prepares to wrap up this weekend.

Among the live coverage we previously detailed, Sirius has also unveiled plans to set up at the NXNE Hub at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Toronto, catching musicians right from their temporary home and offering access to candid interviews and more live from the event’s heart.

2009 NXNE runs from June 17th to the 21st and will enjoy thorough coverage on Sirius Radio Canada’s Iceberg (channel 85) and CBC Radio 3 (channel 86) stations.

[Via CNW Group]