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Below are some helpful links, twitter addresses and other to help promote Susan's 4th CD. Feel free to use them to get the message out about the CD.

The message below came from a radio station in San Antonio.  It is too bad Sony/Syco don't help promote Susan's CDs by getting a promotional copy to them.  She has made a lot of money for them.  I would hope they pay back.

Reply received from Info@call, as below

Grace -

The record producer has not seen fit to provide us with a promotional copy from which to play the songs of Susan Boyle.  If you have connections with her label, simply ask them to provide us with all cuts on the CD (#3, as noted by you, below).  Our email address is:

info@call1301.com

Thanks very much for your encouragement.

- John Barger

Owner & GM

KAHL AM/FM - San Antonio

210-341-1310

http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/sony-registers-record-loss-but-expects-return-to-profit/

 I can understand why Sony has lost revenue.  This article mentions the figures and that customers are not happy with the service received from them.  I believe the reason why there is such a drop in revenue, is because they do not back up their stars, such as Susan Boyle.  There is no mention of her in this article even though over a million of her last CD "Someone To Watch Over Me" has been sold world-wide.  They do not publicize her music in the USA, even though there is a tremendous amount of interest in her. They do not see that her music is played on radio, even when fans request it over and over again.  They do not put out what people want to buy, like all the songs and shows she has done so far.  They do not answer calls and emails to them about their stars.  I never got an actual voice when I called NY Sony about radio play for Susan and I never got a reply to my messages and emails, which I sent to them about radio play. I never got a reply to all the messages I posted on their Media Director's Facebook.   I received no customer service what so ever.  A giant company like Sony, should be able to get their stars music played on USA radio, IMO. 

http://musically.com/2010/03/04/sony-music-to-ditch-promo-cds-in-favour-of-digital-downloads/

Postal Address:

Address Sony Customer Information Centre

Sony

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Phone 0845 6000 124

Sony USA: Phone (212) 833-6800

The Sony Corporation of America offices are located at

550 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

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fb page, http://www.facebook.com/AnnMarieThomson

http://twitter.com/syco_news

http://www.thexfactorusa.com/

http://www.facebook.com/columbiarecords

http://twitter.com/#!/SusanB49/statuses/148817809068146688

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/programmes/genres/music

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Simon Cowell on twitter:  @SimonCowell!

@SYCO_NEWS London & Los Angeles

Simon Cowell, X Factor - UK/US, Labrinth, Susan Boyle, Leona Lewis, Il Divo, BGT, One Direction, Cher Lloyd

@ColumbiaRecords 

@AnnMariePR - @SYCO_NEWS

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@SimonCowell

@SteveMacProd Studio

alex.kadis@sonymusic.com.

A & R person, Nick Raymonde- email is nick.raymonde@sony.music.com

World Wide PR person niscp@twitter.com,

@Sony_Music  Canada view full profile →

@JaniceForsyth Glasgow, Scotland

List of radio stations

http://www.usnpl.com/radio/maradio.php

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/top-404.htm

The link below contains letters to and from Sony to radio stations. They show what transpired between the company and station as far as promotional products to play the stars songs on radio. Letters are from 2000 to 2005.

http://www.makingitinmusic.net/wp-admin/images/Payola%20Documents.pdf

http://blog.tunecore.com/2011/09/how-to-get-your-song-on-commercial-radio.html

http://www.makingitinmusic.net/musicbiz101/how-do-i-get-my-songs-on-the-radio.html

By George Howard

The link above was in the master link below

http://www.makingitinmusic.net/musicbiz101/how-do-i-get-my-songs-on-the-radio.html

The author’s web page

http://www.makingitinmusic.net/

Articles about Getting Music played on radio

Articles about Getting Music played on radio

September 15, 2011

How To Get Your Song On Commercial Radio

By George Howard

http://blog.tunecore.com/2011/09/how-to-get-your-song-on-commercial-radio.html

http://blog.tunecore.com/2011/09/the-hidden-money-in-radio-except-radio-is-dying.html

Complete report on radio in UK

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/An_Independent_Review_of_the_Rules_Governing_Local_Content_on_Commercial_

Susan Boyle singing You'll Never Walk Alone at Celtic Park

John Berry - Give Me Back My America [Official Music Video]

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http://www.recordproduction.com/calum-malcolm.html

Calum Malcolm - Record producer and recording engineer  Record producer video feature at Mixing Rooms Studios Glasgow This is truly one of the most interesting and unique record producer and recording engineer video features that we've ever had the pleasure to record and we hope that you enjoy the video covering Calum Malcom's career as much as we have enjoyed putting it together. Nigel Jopson asked the questions. Many thanks to everyone at the Mixing Rooms, Nigel Jopson, Scott Mathews for his great music and to Calum for sparing his time! Picture by Mike Banks copyright RecordProduction.com

Enjoy The Silence - Susan Boyle

Crown Media Q2 Revenues Up As Hallmark Channel Ad Sales Improve

Crown Media Q2 Revenues Up As Hallmark Channel Ad Sales Improve:
The owner of the Hallmark Channel says that its original movies are still working — and advertisers like the network’s daytime programming plans which include a two-hour daily show Home And Family and Marie Osmond’s Marie. Crown generated net income of $13.5M, – 38% vs the period last year, on revenues of $86.7M, +13.9%. Much of the decline in earnings is due to interest and tax expenses, partly due to its debt restructuring. For common stockholders, earnings per share increased a penny to four cents. The company is thinly traded and not closely followed by analysts. Crown says that ad sales were up 15% in Q2 to $66.5M, which it attributes to the growth in its audience. Subscriber fees from pay TV providers were up 10% to $19.9M. Crown says that that advertiser CPMs for Home And Family — which will feature former Entertainment Tonight host Mark Steines and TV personality Paige Davis — were as much as 100% better than what Hallmark had been collecting for its off-network daytime shows. It also says that Marie is attracting first-time advertisers including KitchenAir, Electrolux, Visa, and General Motors. “During second quarter, the casting developments for Hallmark Channel were significant,” says Crown Media Family Networks CEO Bill Abbott. Although Crown shares closed yesterday at a modest $1.73, the price is up nearly 43% in 2012, recovering somewhat from a steep decline in 2011.

Lawmakers Ponder: Are Big Media Companies Too Powerful?

from Susan Boyle Musical Coming To America? – Deadline.com by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor

That wasn’t the precise topic of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing today. (It had the boring title: “The Cable Act at 20.”) But the question — as well as ones about whether the federal government over-regulates media — bubbled underneath the discussion of problems including higher-than-inflation annual pay TV price hikes, and contract disputes that sometimes result in blackouts of consumers’ favorite channels. Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W Va.) says that there’s too little competition in a system where pay TV customers “are still forced to pick larger and larger packages of channels no matter how few they watch.” His view resonated with Colleen Abdoulah, a witness who chairs the American Cable Association which primarily represents small and mid-sized cable operators. She says that broadcasters make “crazy payments for sports (rights) because they can be forced onto consumers…This abuse of power should be outlawed.” Mark Cooper of the Consumers Federation of America also called for changes that would enable pay TV customers to just buy the channels they want. “The only way to break the market power (of major networks and programmers) is to ensure consumers have choices.”
The discussion kept returning to retransmission consent agreements and disputes, one of the lasting legacies of the ’92 Act. Time Warner Cable’s Melinda Witner told lawmakers that it’s time to change some of the rules. They’ve resulted in “significant and ongoing consumer harm,” she says. In the first half of 2012 there’ve been 69 blackouts, +39% over all of last year, and “we can expect blackouts to increase in the future.” Broadcasters not only demand that distributors pay for programming that’s delivered over the air for free, she says, they insist that cable and satellite distributors carry channels that they don’t want. That results in “bloated packages and higher costs to consumers.” Since the major networks are must-have services, it’s “the opposite of a free market.”
But broadcasters countered that the current system is working. “Bad weather is a far greater source of consumer disruption” than retransmission consent disputes, CBS’ Martin Franks said. National Association of Broadcasters chief Gordon Smith noted that 75% of the blackouts this year involved just three companies: Time Warner Cable, Dish Network, and DirecTV. He’s not opposed to changes, though. He wants pay TV companies to notify subscribers well in advance when a potential disruption is coming, make it easier to switch services, and he wants them to provide refunds to customers for the days when they go without channels for which they’ve paid. Franks noted that changes in the law could create problems for CBS, which spends $5.5B a year for programming. “We need to be able to plan. And we know how this system works….I guess we prefer the devil we know.”

http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/senate-commerce-hearing-retransmission-consent-big-media/

http://www.4-traders.com/news/Bertelsmann-AG-BMG-Welcomes-Hitmaker-Steve-Mac--14405415/

Bertelsmann AG : BMG Welcomes Hitmaker

Steve Mac

07/09/2012 | 12:17pm US/Eastern

Songwriter-producer Steve Mac is one of the world's most successful hitmakers, and BMG is delighted to report that he has just signed an exclusive publishing deal for his Rokstone publishing catalogue with BMG Chrysalis UK. Over the course of his career, Mac, born in 1972, has had total of 58 Number One singles and albums and sales of over 140 million records.
Steve Mac's debut as a writer was on his second ever production, Gonna Give You Devotion, which reached number two in the UK charts in 1991. Since then, the artists he has worked with include such well-known names as The Wanted, One Direction, Susan Boyle, Westlife, Boyzone, Kelly Clarkson, Il Divo, Leona Lewis and JLS.
In the past 18 months alone, Mac has writing credits on 10 UK Top Ten hit singles including Glad You Came" by The Wanted, You Make Me Feel…" by Cobra Starship, Gotta Be You" by One Direction, Sparks" by Cover Drive, and Notorious" by The Saturdays. Steve Mac's latest US hits are You Make Me Feel..." by Cobra Starship (now over 2.4 million downloads) and Glad You Came" by The Wanted (3 million downloads).
BMG Chrysalis UK Vice President of A&R Ben Bodie said, We are delighted to be working with Steve Mac. His strike rate of hits is truly phenomenal. We are looking forward to demonstrating the value BMG's team can add."
Steve Mac said:I'm very excited to join the BMG Chrysalis family and to seek more opportunities internationally." David Howells, Steve Mac's manager, added: BMG Chrysalis impressed us above all with the quality of their team and the very close integration of their creative team in their offices across the world."
Alexi Cory-Smith, Senior Vice-President of BMG Chrysalis UK, commented, Steve Mac is a marquee signing. We are particularly pleased to welcome him in a week in which BMG Chrysalis has shares in all top three singles.

Susan Boyle: Honorary doctorate for singer

Singer Susan Boyle has received an honorary doctorate for her contribution to the creative industries.Continue reading the main sto

Susan Boyle was honoured by Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University

She was honoured by Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University, where she studied for a certificate in caring.

The degree is for work in society at large, which the university said reflected its commitment to the communities it serves.

It was presented to the West Lothian star by founding chancellor Sir Tom Farmer.

Brought up in Blackburn, Boyle made her name on ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2009.

One YouTube clip of the performance where she sang I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, has had 21.5 million hits.

Her first album in 2009, I Dreamed A Dream, was at the time the fastest-selling debut album ever.

With the release of two further albums, Boyle has since sold about 18 million albums worldwide and has 120 platinum and gold albums across 38 countries.

She has sung on TV in the UK, the US, Australia, Ireland and Japan, and performed for Pope Benedict XVI and the Queen.

The singer also performed live to half a billion people on the TV show China's Got Talent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18738167

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Steve Mac signs to BMG Chrysalis 5 July, 2012

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Songwriter-producer Steve Mac has signed an exclusive publishing deal for his Rokstone publishing catalogue with BMG Chrysalis UK.

Former peermusic signing Mac boasts a career total of 58 Number One singles and albums and sales of over 140m records.

His debut as a writer was on his second ever production, Gonna Give You Devotion, which reached number two in the UK charts in 1991. Since then among the artists he has worked with are The Wanted, One Direction, Susan Boyle, Westlife, Boyzone, Kelly Clarkson, Il Divo, Leona Lewis and JLS.

Mac has writing credits on 10 UK Top Ten hit singles in the past 18 months including:

· The Wanted – ‘Glad You Came’

· Cobra Starship – ‘You Make Me Feel’

· One Direction – ‘Gotta Be You’

· Cover Drive – ‘Sparks’

· The Saturdays – ‘Notorious’.

Steve Mac’s latest US hits are ‘You Make Me Feel….’ by Cobra Starship (now over 2.4 million downloads) and ‘Glad You Came’ by The Wanted (3 million downloads).

BMG Chrysalis UK Vice President of A&R Ben Bodie said, “We are delighted to be working with Steve Mac. His strike rate of hits is truly phenomenal. We are looking forward to demonstrating the value BMG’s team can add.”

Steve Mac said, “I’m very excited to join the BMG Chrysalis family and to seek more opportunities internationally.”

David Howells, Steve Mac’s manager, said, “BMG Chrysalis impressed us above all with the quality of their team and the very close integration of their creative team in their offices across the world. We believe that teamwork will make a difference as Steve continues to grow and develop his talent. We believe the best is yet to come.”

Alexi Cory-Smith, Senior Vice-President of BMG Chrysalis UK, said, “Steve Mac is a marquee signing. We are particularly pleased to welcome him in a week in which BMG Chrysalis has shares in all top three singles.”

Pick up today's new Music Week for the full story and more exclusive reaction from all parties.

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1050250&c=1

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Richard Mooney's Blog

Richard Mooney was the first report who interview Susan Boyle.   He is in the process of writing a story about Susan.  Below is the correspondence and Richard's blog.
Grace R @seegraysea 30 Jun @richardmooney -TY. Can't wait. Love all about Susan Boyle. BTW, your tweet made the Forum and fans are waiting too. You are famous! richardmooney @richardmooney @seegraysea glad to hear it made the forums :) thanks for that, I'm writing it for my blog,storiesincontent.com @bernthepunk thanks also! 05:00 PM - 30 Jun 12 via web

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Do You Know What Susan Boyle Has Done?

Liberty Media Lays Out Its Plans To Take Control Of Sirius XM

from Susan Boyle Musical Coming To America? – Deadline.com by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor

In an SEC filing this morning, John Malone’s company says that it will convert enough of its preferred shares in the satellite radio provider into common shares to give it 32% of the total votes. Then “as soon as practicable” it will nominate and campaign for a slate of directors that would constitute a majority of the board. Liberty already has five of the 13 seats. In the meantime, Liberty will continue to buy shares in the open market so it could “replace the entire Board of Directors by unilateral action.” The plan comes as Liberty tries to revive its effort to persuade the FCC to give it Sirius XM’s satellite licenses. Malone’s company says it plays such a big role at Sirius XM that it already effectively controls the company. FCC staffers rejected that claim early this month; Liberty laid out its new take-over plans in conjunction with its appeal of that decision. Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin has said that if Liberty wants to buy the company, then it should pay existing investors a premium price for their shares. Malone’s plan would not do that. Still, he might find enough investors willing to sell: Sirius XM shares have lost more than 20% of their value over the last 12 months. The stock price is up slightly in pre-market trading.
What Malone hasn’t said is whether he wants to run Sirius XM, or sell it as part of one of his famously complex financial deals to help him minimize tax payments. He’d owe the government a huge capital gains check if he simply tried to sell his existing shares. Liberty invested $530M in Sirius XM in 2009, when the broadcaster was in danger of defaulting on its debt. That stake, equal to about 40% of the equity, is now worth about $3B. But if Liberty controlled Sirius XM it could use a gambit known as a Reverse Morris Trust. Liberty could spin the satellite broadcaster off to its shareholders who’d then merge it with another entity — in effect enabling Liberty to sell its Sirius XM holdings without paying for the capital gains on its investment. Malone is able to make his move now because a standstill agreement that was part of his investment in Sirius XM expired in March.

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BBC WM - Graham Torrington Interview with Elaine C. Smith May 29, 2012

Great radio interview with Elaine C. Smith.  Video by TommyUSA.

BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY - DANIEL O'DONNELL

Susan is DJ and Talks About Her Songs

Thank you TommyUSA for the video.

Susan Boyle News with Ewing Stevens - Audio

Wed, 16 May 2012 05:02

Susan Boyle news an audience before the Queen.

CNN Slumps To 15-Year Primetime Low

from Susan Boyle Musical Coming To America? – Deadline.com by DOMINIC PATTEN

CNN fell to a 15 year primetime low last night in a key demo and limboed down to its second worse weekday primetime since March 1997. A new episode of Piers Morgan Tonight at 9 PM drew in only 39,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54. The news network itself averaged just 308,000 viewers in primetime with Morgan’s show and Anderson Cooper’s AC360 leading at 8 PM and again at 10 PM. CNN had 73,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54 during Tuesday’s primetime. This comes on the heels of April’s bad newswhen the network had its lowest-rated month in over a decade. The forensics on the 9 PM slot’s low Adult 25-54 numbers are revealing. The last time a CNN show had that kind of demo numbers in that weekday timeslot was on August 22, 1997. Back in 1997, a Larry King Live show on a Friday night got 50,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54. However unlike 1997, when the show’s total viewership was 693,000, Morgan’s show last night only had a total viewership of 284,000. That actually wasn’t actually a record low for Morgan’s show, which debuted on January 17, 2011, but it was down from a regular weekday. Over on Fox News, Sean Hannity had 1.7 million viewers in the 9 PM slot, with 334,000 viewers in the Adult 25-54. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show had 839,000 viewers, with 315,000 in the Adult 25-54. In the last 15 years, CNN’s overall weekday primetime numbers have only been worse on Thanksgiving Day 2011. On November 24, 2011, CNN had a primetime average of 262,000 viewers. The Adult 25-54 viewership on that Thursday night was 83,000. That’s what they call a very slow news night.
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Veteran RadioLIVE broadcaster Ewing Stevens receives industry recognition - Audio

Fri, 11 May 2012 07:11

RadioLIVE's Ewing Stevens talks to RadioLIVE's Marcus Lush about his more than 50 years in broadcasting. 11 May, 2012

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Sony Registers Record Loss, But Expects Return To Profit

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:33 UK

Posting a record loss of $5.7B for the fiscal year ended March 31, Sony today reported a quarterly loss of $3.2B. However, the company also expects a return to profit, predicting that net income for the fiscal year to end March 2013 could be about $376M. Still, that figure lags behind what a group of Bloomberg analysts had estimated. Under new CEO Kazuo Hirai, the company is to slash 10,000 jobs as it trims costs to help turn around its flagging TV unit. Sony Pictures Entertainment sales increased 18% benefitting from the sale of a participation interest in Spider-Manmerchandising rights and higher pay TV and VOD sales. Operating income at SPE decreased to $416M primarily due to combined gains in the previous fiscal year from the acquisition of a controlling interest in GSN and the sale of SPE’s interest in HBO Latin America. Sony also noted the strong theatrical performance of The Smurfs and Bad Teacher, offset by the underperformance of Arthur Christmas.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/sony-registers-record-loss-but-expects-return-to-profit/

Video from TommyUSA.

Thank you Tommy.  Your banners tell the story of Ms Susan Boyle, who has given the world such beautiful music.  This is posted here for all the radio DJs and PDs people who do not know about Susan and do not play her music on radio.  What a shame!
Thank you, Tommy.

FCC Rejects Liberty Media’s Application To Take Over Sirius XM’s Licenses

from Susan Boyle Musical Coming To America? – Deadline.com by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor

The regulatory agency sided with Sirius XM which said that while John Malone’s Liberty might control the satellite radio company one day, it doesn’t do so yet. The proof: Liberty’s application to claim Sirius XM’s broadcast licenses was unacceptable because it was “unable to obtain the passwords, signatures, and other necessary information from Sirius to properly file an electronic transfer of control application,”  two FCC officials said in a letter today. Liberty had argued that it already pretty much calls the shots at Sirius by virtue of the preferred stock it bought for $530M in 2009 when Sirius was in danger of defaulting on its debt. The shares can be swapped for 40% of the company’s equity. But the officials noted that Liberty hasn’t demonstrated that it intends to actually make that swap or, if it did, that it could take control of the company board. Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin told investors this week that “40 (percent) is not the new 50.”

UPDATE: Sirius XM Chief Is Mystified By Liberty Media Effort To Take Control

from Susan Boyle Musical Coming To America? – Deadline.com by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor

UPDATE, 6:15 AM: CEO Mel Karmazin is known as a straight-shooter, but showed today that he can also be diplomatic about a sensitive subject that hits close to home: Analysts in a conference call wanted to know what’s up with the FCC petition by John Malone’s Liberty Media to take over the rights to the satellite radio company’s broadcast licenses. Liberty says it has “de facto control” of Sirius XM by virtue of its 40% of the company’s stock, and right to hold five of the 13 board seats. Karmazin says he’s confident that the FCC will reject the petition. Although Liberty has “significant influence,” Karmazin says that ”our board absolutely concluded that they do not have de facto control…40 is not the new 50.” He says that he isn’t sure why Malone’s company filed its FCC petition. “Liberty has not indicated anything that they want to do. When they get asked, why are you doing it, they say they want to keep all of their options open.” While Karmazin wouldn’t criticize his largest shareholder, he added that “if the time ever comes that Liberty’s interests are different than the 60% shareholders, then we will do whatever we can do to protect the interest of our 60% shareholders.” Karmazin says he’s now just waiting to hear from the FCC.
The CEO continued to crow about the company’s Q1 performance, especially with subscriptions. “The reaction to the price increase has clearly exceeded our expectations….We could not have hoped for a better outcome.” He expects to see about 1M gross subscriptions this year from people buying used cars — a growing market for Sirius XM. He told analysts that he’s been loading up on sports programming as part of his strategy to compete with terrestrial radio and online music services such as Pandora and Spotify. For example, the satellite radio company now also offers every Major League Baseball game on smartphone or computer. Sirius XM’s on-demand service will launch this summer on the Web, smartphones and other connected devices. In addition, Chrysler will offer Sirius XM’s 2.0 radios in its cars beginning this summer. Karmazin says he’s open to the idea of returning some of the company’s cash to shareholders. “There is nothing that we’re seeing out there that we’re anxious to acquire,” he says. But no decisions have been made yet.
PREVIOUS, 4:23 AM: Shares are up slightly in pre-market trading as the improving economy, and especially auto sales, enabled the satellite radio company to project that it will gain 1.5M subscribers in 2012 — up from its previous estimate of 1.3M. The forecast was part of Sirius XM’s Q1 report that showed net income of $107.8M, up nearly 38% vs the same period last year, on revenues of $804.7M, up 11%. The revenue figure was slightly ahead of the $803.8M the Street expected. Earnings of 2 cents a share matched the consensus forecast. The company says that, despite the $1.54 price increase in January — which raised the monthly cost of its service to $14.49 — it gained 299,348 subscriptions in Q1. That brought total subs to 22.3M. The monthly churn rate also dropped modestly to 1.9% from 2% in the first three months of 2011. CEO Mel Karmazin says that the company plans to increase the number of channels it offers via its new generation of Sirius XM 2.0 radios — which enable users to create personalized channels (similar to Pandora), as well as pause and rewind programming. “In 2012, we continue to expect record revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow, and our subscriber base will also finish this year at another all-time record high,” Karmazin says.

Syco TV Chief Shu Greene Segues To ITV Studios As Director Of Entertainment

from Susan Boyle Musical Coming To America? – Deadline.com by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor

Tuesday 1st May 2012 – ITV Studios UK is delighted to announce that award-winning programme-maker, Shu Greene, currently Head of Television at Syco TV and producer and creator of some of the biggest shows on UK and US television, is joining ITV Studios UK in the newly-created role of Director of Entertainment, ITVS.
Returning to her original TV home, Shu will lead the entertainment team to create and deliver great entertainment programming for both ITV and non-ITV channels, spearheading ITV Studios’ ambition to be the home for the best talent both on-screen, in development and production.
Shu will report to Denise O’Donoghue and Kevin Lygo.
Denise O’Donoghue, Managing Director, ITV Studios UK, said: “You can’t turn a creative business around without being able to attract and retain the best talent. Shu is an inspiring person and she will be an inspiring leader – she has immense talent, experience and charisma and will be a magnet for the best creatives at every stage in production.
“Great shows are about origination and delivery and she is an expert in both. Her relationships with many of the biggest names on screen speak to her standing in the business and the respect for which she is renowned. I am incredibly excited at the prospect of working with Shu whom I know relishes the challenge of delivering the new generation of big entertainment shows.”
Kevin Lygo, Managing Director, ITV Studios said: “Shu has been at the heart of making the X Factor and the Got Talent franchises the global success they are today. The creation of brand new entertainment formats for UK and international audiences is a crucial part of our strategy; Shu’s creative and production expertise will be an enormous asset for ITV Studios as we move into the next phase of the Transformation Plan.”
Shu commented: “After almost a decade working alongside Simon Cowell, the most amazing producer and on-screen talent I have ever met, I felt this was the right moment to step into my own light. I intend to put my heart and soul into putting ITV Studios back where it belongs – at the very heart of Saturday night entertainment, and in doing so am determined we will create the next generation of ground breaking shows. Watch this space.”
Shu Greene is a multi-award winning programme maker who, over the last twenty years, has created and produced some of the biggest entertainment shows on British and American television. Shu joined Syco TV at its inception in 2004 working closely with Simon Cowell in the creation, commission and execution of all of Syco’s content including The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.
Shu has been the Executive Producer of The X Factor in the UK for the last eight series; the show has gone on to win six British Academy Awards and seven National Television Awards. In September 2011 Shu was the Executive Producer of the X Factor USA overseeing the show’s high-profile launch on the Fox Network. At the same time, she oversaw the debut of Red or Black? (a co-production with ITV Studios).
Prior to setting up Syco TV, Shu was Head of Development for ITV Productions running a large team with responsibility for creating new, returnable and bankable formats. In that role, she co-created and launched the acclaimed Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway which won three National Television Awards and a Golden Rose. She also created Celebrities Under Pressure and Fight School for Sky One.