The Federal Communications Commission (or FCC) has granted Sirius XM Radio an extension for their previously ordered addition of third party channel support. A decision was reached by the FCC after a deadline for reconfiguring of Sirius XM’s business was passed on November 28th.

Sirius XM and the FCC had previously agreed that the satellite radio giant would have to lease out eight percent of their channel capacity to third party channels after the corporate merger earlier this year.

Troubles with figuring out exactly how to add the new channel support has led the FCC to reconsider the time-line which is now extended to a February 27th 2009 deadline.

[Via OrbitCast]