Rumor: Sirius looks for other avenues, chooses online streaming

Sirius recently registered the trademark “SIR” for “Sirius Internet Radio.” Furthermore, Sirius Backstage has seemed to confirm that that Sirius plans on offering an online only subscription called “Sirius Internet Radio Plus”. The service will offer CD-quality sound 128kbps on the music channels and talk channels (including Howard 100/101) at 48kbps.

The cost will be $12.95 and one can purchase up to 3 additional SIR Plus subscriptions for $6.99. Existing Sirius subscribers can upgrade to SIR Plus for an additional $2.99 a month. The $2.99 is just for one of your ESN’s however, so if you have separate SIR accounts on each of them you’ll have to pay $2.99 for each to upgrade. As far as we know Sirius does not have any plans to offer channels on the new service that aren’t available via your Sirius receiver. Sirius subscribers will still be able to listen to the regular internet stream for free.

Now isn’t it about time Howard Stern officially hits the airwaves like we all expected.

Read [Sirius Backstage]