Re:But will Stern fans follow him to satellite? (Score 1)

And speaking of which, when did XM start carrying local weather and traffic? When Sirius first started it, various FM and AM broadcasters were complaining to the FCC that Sirius was violating the terms of its charter, and in those articles I don't remember seeing XM mentioned, suggesting that it might be another XM "me, too!" feature implemented after Sirius took the initiative.

This one is actually the other way arround -- sort of. XM annouced it in January, and went live on March 1st with 15 cities. Sirius didn't annouce theirs until February 27th, but started with New York and LA on the 29th.

So XM was was after Sirius, but XM was the first to make the plans public.