Joan Rivers To Host Sirius' Broadway Best Week Of 6/30

By: Jun. 27, 2008
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SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced Joan Rivers will guest host on SIRIUS' Broadway's Best channel.

Joan Rivers will guest host, "Can We Talk… About Broadway," a daily special broadcast throughout the week of June 30th.  The legendary comedienne, and lifetime Broadway theater fan, will introduce show tunes and play songs, offering listeners her unique and often outrageous commentary about several of her favorite Broadway shows, including Andrew Lloyd Weber's Starlight Express.   Joan will also present rarely heard selections from the Ed Sullivan Show from the 1960s.

"Can We Talk… About Broadway," guest hosted by Joan Rivers, will air daily for an hour starting Monday, June 30th through Friday, July 4th at 12 noon ET, with an encore broadcast of the day's show airing again at 6 pm ET.  The five-hour series will also be rebroadcast in its entirety on Sunday, July 6th starting at 9 am and 9 pm ET.

Broadway's Best puts SIRIUS listeners front row center for the greatest show tune hits sung by the stars of the musical stage, bringing Broadway to every street in America.  The channel features songs and interviews from the biggest stars of musical theater, including Julie Andrews,Ethel Merman,Barbra Streisand,Liza Minnelli,Patti LuPone,Carol Channing and many others.  For more information and complete programming lineup, please visit www.sirius.com/BroadwaysBest.   

SIRIUS, "The Best Radio on Radio," delivers more than 130 channels of the best programming in all of radio.  SIRIUS is the original and only home of 100% commercial free music channels in satellite radio, offering 69 music channels.  SIRIUS also delivers 65 channels of sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic, weather and data.   SIRIUS is the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL and NASCAR, and broadcasts live play-by-play games of the NFL as well as live NASCAR races.  All SIRIUS programming is available for a monthly subscription fee of only $12.95.

SIRIUS Internet Radio (SIR) is an Internet-only version of the SIRIUS radio service, without the use of a radio, for the monthly subscription fee of $12.95. SIR delivers more than 80 channels of talk, entertainment, sports, and 100% commercial free music.

SIRIUS Backseat TV ä is the first ever live in-vehicle rear seat entertainment featuring three channels of children's programming, including Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, for the subscription fee of $6.99 plus applicable audio subscription fee.

SIRIUS products for the car, truck, home, RV and boat are available at shop.sirius.com and in more than 20,000 retail locations, including Best Buy, Circuit City, Crutchfield, Target, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and RadioShack.

As of December 31, 2007, SIRIUS radios were available as a factory and dealer-installed option in 116 vehicle models and as a dealer only-installed option in 37 vehicle models.

SIRIUS has agreements with Aston Martin, Audi, Automobili Lamborghini, Bentley, BMW, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Jaguar, Jeep, Kia, Land Rover, Lincoln, Maybach, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, MINI, Mitsubishi, Rolls-Royce, Volvo, and Volkswagen to offer SIRIUS radios as factory or dealer-installed equipment in their vehicles.  SIRIUS has relationships with Toyota and Scion to offer SIRIUS radios as dealer-installed equipment, and a relationship with Subaru to offer SIRIUS radios as factory or dealer-installed equipment.  SIRIUS radios are also offered to renters of Hertz vehicles at airport locations nationwide.

Click on www.sirius.com to listen to SIRIUS live, or to purchase a SIRIUS radio and subscription.

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