SIRIUS Satellite Radio to Carry FOX News and FOX News Talk Channels; Long Term Agreement Returns FOX News to SIRIUS

SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced a new longterm agreement to carry FOX News and FOX News Talk channels beginningMarch 14th.

The previous agreement between FOX and SIRIUS expired at the endof 2005. FOX News, which has more viewers than all other cable newsnetworks combined, now rejoins SIRIUS' broad lineup of news andinformation at channel 131. FOX News Talk channel, which offers news,analysis, listener call-ins, and commentary from popular FOX Newspersonalities such as Bill O'Reilly, Tony Snow, John Gibson and AlanColmes, among others, will air on channel 145.

"We are very pleased to have reached an agreement with FOX tobring back its news service to SIRIUS and to add what is a compellingtalk channel," said Scott Greenstein, SIRIUS President ofEntertainment and Sports. "Our goal was to negotiate a new agreementthat would be in the best interest of our subscribers andshareholders, and the new agreement fulfills that objective."

Kevin Magee, Senior Vice President, FOX News Radio said, "We arepleased to be back on SIRIUS. The renewed agreement adds to ourcoast-to-coast footprint for both FOX News Radio, as well as ourpopular talk shows, and reinforces FOX as America's fastest-growingradio news network."

About FOX News Radio:

FOX News, headed by Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO, operates FOXNews Radio, a 24/7 news service reaching more than ten millionlisteners a week. The network features a comprehensive hourlyfive-minute newscast along with one-minute newscasts, breaking-newscoverage to affiliate stations nationwide, and four weekday talkprograms, The Tony Snow Show, The Alan Colmes Show, The John GibsonShow and FOX Across America with Spencer Hughes. Additionally, FOXNews also operates FOX News Channel (FNC), the number one cable newschannel in the United States for more than four years, FOXNews.com andproduces FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace and The Radio Factor withBill O'Reilly.

About SIRIUS

SIRIUS delivers more than 125 channels of the best commercial-freemusic, compelling talk shows, news and information, and the mostextensive sports programming to listeners across the country indigital quality sound. SIRIUS offers 68 channels of 100%commercial-free music, and features over 55 channels of sports, news,talk, entertainment, traffic and weather for a monthly subscriptionfee of only $12.95. SIRIUS is the Official Satellite Radio Partner ofthe NFL, NBA and NHL and broadcasts live play-by-play games of theNFL, NBA and NHL.

SIRIUS products for the car, truck, home, RV and boat aredistributed by Alpine, Audiovox, Brix Group, Clarion, Delphi, DirectedElectronics, Eclipse, Jensen, JVC, Kenwood, Magnadyne, Monster Cable,Pioneer, Russound, Tivoli and XACT Communications. Available in morethan 25,000 retail locations, SIRIUS radios can be purchased at majorretailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, Crutchfield, Costco,Target, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, RadioShack and at shop.sirius.com.

SIRIUS radios are currently offered in vehicles from Audi, BMW,Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Infiniti, Jaguar, Jeep(R), Land Rover, Lexus,Lincoln-Mercury, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, MINI, Nissan, Scion, Toyota,Porsche, Volkswagen and Volvo. Hertz currently offers SIRIUS at majorlocations around the country.

Click on www.sirius.com to listen to SIRIUS live, or to find aSIRIUS retailer or car dealer in your area.

Any statements that express, or involve discussions as to,expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, future eventsor performance with respect to SIRIUS Satellite Radio Inc. are nothistorical facts and may be forward-looking and, accordingly, suchstatements involve estimates, assumptions and uncertainties whichcould cause actual results to differ materially from those expressedin any forward-looking statements. Accordingly, any such statementsare qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors discussedin our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the keyfactors that have a direct bearing on our operational results are: ourdependence upon third parties, including manufacturers of SIRIUSradios, retailers, automakers and programming partners, ourcompetitive position and any events which affect the useful life ofour satellites.

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