Thursday, August 10, 2006

Emergency Message

August 10, 2006

We usually say that Satellite Standard Group Keeps You Informed, but this morning it was SIRIUS (and perhaps XM).

On my drive this morning I was enjoying the Jay Thomas Show on Sirius Stars when an "Emergency Bulletin" came out regarding the terror plot that was foiled in London. The message stated the basic facts, gave an update as to the status of the alert code color, and referred people to Fox News, CNN News, CNN Headline News, or BBC World News. The message also gave out the appropriate Sirius channel numbers.

Personally, I switched over to Fox News and caught the story for the balance of my drive.

It was good to see the system work the way it did.

I have no knowledge of whether XM did something similar and would be curious to know. If they did, how was the message delivered? We would like to hear from SSG readers that are XM subscribers and get the story of an XM listener that we can update this story with. Thanks in Advance