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112-556: Live Audio Wrestling (also known as The LAW ) was a Canadian sports radio talk show hosted by "The Mouth" Dan Lovranski and Jason Agnew. The program primarily focused on news and events related to professional wrestling (such as WWE ) and mixed martial arts . First premiering in May 1997 as an internet radio show, LAW later shifted to conventional radio on several stations in the Toronto area, and moved to CHUM-AM in 2011. Due to

224-413: A 16MB SDRAM memory to buffer four seconds of one of the satellite signals in order to bring it into time coincidence with the other for Maximal-ratio combining . On newer receivers with a "pause" feature, a dual-port PSRAM is employed to store up to 60 minutes of the selected channel. The baseband processor outputs digital audio over a Serial Peripheral Interface, which is fed to a D/A converter to produce

336-438: A Spring 2007 Arbitron report, the five channels most listened to on Sirius based on their average quarterly hour (AQH) share were Howard 100, Howard 101, The Highway (56), Sirius Hits 1, and Octane (37). On October 6, 2004, Sirius announced that it had signed a five-year, US$ 100 million per year agreement with Howard Stern to move his radio show, The Howard Stern Show, to Sirius starting on January 9, 2006. Stern said his move

448-595: A classic radio call-in show from the UK discussing all of the days top matches. On September 15, 2008, Chris Russo launched his own show called Mad Dog Unleashed . After the merger between Sirius and XM was completed, Major League Baseball games remained exclusive to XM Radio as a result of an arrangement dispute between MLB and Sirius XM, which prevented Sirius subscribers from listening to games. However, on August 19, 2013, Sirius XM reached an agreement with MLB allowing all customers with both Sirius and XM receivers to hear

560-414: A codec for rack mounting in satellite earth stations. The Sirius signal uses more robust error correction on control channels than on the audio content, trading off error correction and bandwidth differently for separate categories of bits in the signal waveform. The terrestrial carrier is an OFDM QPSK signal, and cousin to WiMax and LTE, with the particular feature that more than one transmitter operates on

672-520: A deal to add UEFA Champions League soccer to their lineup. Sirius had exclusive radio rights to broadcast the ESPN television feed of the Euro 2008 championships. Sirius also aired a soccer talk show called "The Football Show" with former Metrostars GM Charlie Stillitano and former International Italian star Giorgio Chinaglia . On Saturdays and Sundays during premier league season, Sirius aired Radio 606 ,

784-663: A few. Sirius Satellite Radio Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. was a satellite radio ( SDARS ) and online radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Holdings . Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis , Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002. It now provides 69 streams (channels) of music and 65 streams of sports, news, and entertainment to its subscribers. A subset of Sirius music channels

896-514: A frequent guest reviewer, especially if the review contains a punk rock element. The show ceased to be an add-on to the archived episode of the LAW in 2010 when the "Review-A-Wai" portion became as long as the archived episode of the LAW itself. "Review-A-Wai" was moved to a Wednesday release schedule following its second anniversary show, and later to late Tuesdays following the debut of "whtsNXT" so as to avoid multiple LAW podcasts being released on

1008-479: A medical research foundation, focused on finding a cure for her daughter's illness. Former NASA engineer Robert Briskman, who designed the company's satellite technology, was then appointed Chairman and CEO. Six months later, in November 1992, Rogers Wireless co-founder David Margolese, who had provided financial backing for the venture, acquired control of the company and succeeded Briskman. Margolese renamed

1120-401: A new website, known as "Post Wrestling". Live Audio Wrestling premiered on May 23, 1997 as an internet radio show through Virtually Canadian, with Faarooq as its first guest. The show aired online for a year and a half before moving to CJCL , The Fan 590 —however, it was still only broadcast online, since the show was broadcast as replacement programming due to NBA policies prohibiting

1232-623: A number of additional channels exclusive to Canada; the other four come from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . After a delay and outcry from Canadian subscribers, Sirius Canada added Howard Stern's Channel 100 to their lineup in early 2006. Channel 101 , Stern's other channel (featuring Bubba the Love Sponge , Scott Ferrall , and other personalities), were made available in late June 2006. Talk radio content recently added onto Sirius Satellite Radio include

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1344-633: A podcast on the Fight Network website; using the same format as the radio versions but without call-in segments. On October 9, 2011, The LAW moved to CHUM AM ; while the program maintained its traditional 11:00 p.m. timeslot, it is preempted by Sunday Night Football during the NFL season. The LAW began airing on CHUM's sister station CFTE in Vancouver on September 9, 2012. The LAW currently does not air on any other TSN Radio station. On

1456-497: A regular guest host on the show. Since Takeover's moved to Saturdays on the same weekend as the WWE's Big 4 events , Takeover reviews have been added onto the end of The LAW podcast under the title of "whtsNXTra". Also since 2017 whtsNXT has chosen to skip the review of the post-Takeover NXT episodes, stating there's no point in reviewing a review show. The last episode of whtsNXT was posted on October 26, 2017. A spiritual successor under

1568-638: A second for updates and play-by-play. ER's talk lineup included current New York Yankees voice John Sterling , New York Mets radio host Ed Coleman and former big-league pitcher Bill Denehy . Emmis Broadcasting 's WFAN in New York in 1987 was the first all-sports radio station. The success of the station and its programs, such as Mike and the Mad Dog , caused many to appear around the United States; while only one other radio show besides Mike and

1680-437: A weekly podcast with the second WWE brand extension, complementing Review-A-Raw . Unlike Review-A-Raw , however, Review-A-SmackDown is intended to remain an audio-only podcast, and not a show that is meant to air on Fight Network. The first regular episode of Review-A-SmackDown was posted on July 19, 2016, covering the WWE draft that kicked off the second WWE brand extension. For a brief time in 2017, Review-a-Smackdown

1792-590: Is Nigeria's first sports radio station and was launched in 2002. DZSR Sports Radio 918 kHz is the first and only sports radio station owned by the Philippine Broadcasting Service . In 2009, Detroit's "97.1 The Ticket" WXYT-FM , thanks to the surprising time slot dominance of shows like Valenti and Foster , in addition to holding the play-by-play rights for the Detroit Tigers , Detroit Red Wings , Detroit Lions and

1904-573: Is US$ 470 and the aftermarket unit has an MSRP of US$ 299.99. Both were made available in the fourth quarter of 2007. As of 1 January 2016 the service has been discontinued. In June 2005, Sirius signed an agreement with BBC Radio 1 in the UK to rebroadcast the station to an American audience. In August 2011, Sirius dropped BBC Radio 1 , but a week later they announced that the channel would return online. Sirius also had exclusive satellite radio rights to National Public Radio , carrying two separate streams. The Sirius NPR NOW programming did not include

2016-465: Is a single screen (or a dual screen option in the Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Grand Caravan ) for back seat passengers to watch while front seat passengers have the option of simultaneously listening to any normal Sirius radio channel. The service is reported to cost an additional US$ 6.99 per month on top of the standard Sirius subscription price. The MSRP of the factory installed units

2128-483: Is also considered to be a spiritual successor to Fight Network Radio , due to John Pollock's past and present connections. Sports radio Hosted by Bill Mazer , the first sports talk radio show in history launched in March 1964 on New York's WNBC (AM) . Soon after WNBC launched its program, in 1965 Seton Hall University 's radio station, WSOU , started Hall Line , a call-in sports radio talk show focusing on

2240-547: Is an abbreviation of "Pollock Offsets Ting"), was announced on December 15, 2017, and launched on December 24, 2017. It owned in its entirety by John Pollock and Wai Ting, and launched with their annual Christmas show that they had been doing from their days on the LAW.Two temporary podcasts done by the duo were folded under the Post Wrestling banner, becoming Rewind-a-Raw and Rewind-a-SmackDown , while other LAW podcasts would eventually be relaunched. Former co-hosts of

2352-433: Is an intentional four-second delay between the two satellite carrier signals. This enables the receiver to maintain a large buffer of the audio stream, which, along with forward error correction , helps keep the audio playing in the event that the signal is temporarily lost, such as when driving under an overpass or otherwise losing line-of-sight of any of the satellites or ground repeater stations. A third, separate signal

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2464-462: Is available to those who listen to the archived edition of the show on The LAW website, as an add-on to the original radio production. Shortly after its launch, Dan Lovranski began to co-host the segment, answering e-mail questions. Starting with the January 20th 2008 edition, Live Audio Xtra began to take call-in questions from listeners who were unable to get on the air during the radio portion of

2576-449: Is designed to mitigate and retain signal quality in hostile signal conditions and the relatively weak signal levels from distant satellites. Because the satellites are not all geostationary they appear and disappear over the horizon. Terrestrial signals are present only in major cities to augment the satellite signals. Approximately five chipset versions were built by Agere and approximately 4 versions were built by STMicroelectronics after

2688-615: Is difficult to automate; most prominent sports leagues also place their radio broadcasts behind a paywall or provide their broadcasts directly to the consumer, depriving standalone Internet stations of potential programming. Pre-recorded sports talk programs (usually interview-centered) can be syndicated as podcasts with relative ease, and sports teams have also launched their own online digital networks with sports talk centered around their own properties. As with most other radio formats, sports radio uses dayparting . ESPN Radio, for instance, insisted that its affiliates carry Mike and Mike in

2800-430: Is effectively a televised recording session of the podcast, with the actual WWE Raw review content identical in both versions. However, some segments have been modified to suit the television audience, such as the omission of listener feedback and a shorter banter portion at the start of the show that more directly relates to the co-hosts' positions at Fight Network. As both the podcast and televised shows are produced in

2912-837: Is included as part of the Dish Network satellite television service. Sirius channels are identified by Nielsen Audio with the label "SR" (e.g. "SR120", "SR9", "SR17"). Its business model is to provide pay-for-service radio, analogous to the business model for premium cable television . Music channels are presented without advertising, while its talk channels, such as Howard Stern 's Howard 100 and Howard 101 and Jason Ellis ' Faction Talk , carry commercials. Because all channels are free from FCC content regulation, songs are played unedited for language; talk programs may also feature explicit content if they wish. Subscriptions are prepaid and range in price from US$ 14.99 monthly (US$ 9.99 for each additional receiver) to US$ 699.99 for lifetime (of

3024-464: Is included with the receiver. Antenna placement is crucial to receiving a clear signal. In some locations users have experienced difficulty receiving the Sirius programming because the signal is not consistently strong. For the best reception, antennas should be placed such that they have an unobstructed view of the sky (preferably on rooftops without overhanging eaves or trees). If this is not an option,

3136-425: Is separated into three carriers, one each for the two satellites, and the third for the terrestrial repeater network where available. Sirius receivers decode all three 4 MHz carrier signals at once to achieve signal diversity . This is in contrast to XM which uses six carriers and decodes three 2 MHz carriers to economize on receiver power consumption and complexity at the cost of channel-changing speed. There

3248-464: Is uplinked to the AMC-6 Ku-band satellite and received by 36-inch (910 mm) satellite dishes for the ground repeater network. This third signal is broadcast on a third segment of the signal. The technology for Sirius Satellite Radio receivers as well as some of the uplink equipment, and the studio encoder, originated at Bell Labs in the late 1990s and subsequent years. The studio encoder

3360-522: The Underground Garage , dedicated to garage rock , and Outlaw Country with its focus on alternative country music . The majority of the company's programming was self-produced exclusively for Sirius. However, there were some shows—especially in the Talk genre—that were originally created for terrestrial radio, but then aired on conventional radio and on Sirius/XM simultaneously; one example

3472-600: The Baseband Integrated Circuit currently the STA240, which is produced by STMicroelectronics. The chip contains embedded ARM7TDMI and ARM946E-S microprocessors synthesized from IP cores . Every baseband has a unique Electronic Serial Number (or Sirius ID). Another major section of a Sirius receiver is the tuner. The tuner is also a custom ASIC , the STA210. The tuner connects to the antenna, and receives

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3584-725: The Detroit Pistons , became the United States' only sports talk radio station to be the highest rated station in their market, according to Portable People Meter rankings. The station relocated to the FM dial in October 2007 after existing on the AM dial for seven years prior, replacing a Free FM "hot talk" station, WKRK. This ratings success has led to WXYT-FM billing itself as the country's best sports station. WXYT-FM's recent influence has led to CBS Radio installing sports radio stations on

3696-644: The Live Audio Wrestling name will air as part of its Twitch channel, as a video podcast hosted by Jeremy Borash . The new show was offiicaly announced on April 3, 2018 as Sunday Night's Main Event , and was set to air the following Sunday; immediately following Wrestlemania 34 . However, owing to Borash's departure in April 2018, the show never aired. The spiritual successor of Live Audio Wrestling in its original form, titled "POST Wrestling" (the name

3808-660: The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . In August 2004, Sirius launched Sirius NFL Radio , a 24-hour radio stream for covering the NFL. Sirius also had the only national Horse racing talk show, At the Races , hosted by noted racing handicapper, Steve Byk. The Hardcore Poker Show , hosted by Rob Pizzo and Chris Tessaro, was the only syndicated poker talk show in North America. Sirius also broadcast select Premier League matches. On September 27, 2006, Sirius announced

3920-427: The S band between 2320 and 2332.5 MHz. Audio channels are digitally compressed using a proprietary variant of Lucent 's Perceptual Audio Coder compression algorithm and encrypted with a proprietary conditional access system. Sirius has announced that they intend to implement hierarchical modulation technology to economize on bandwidth up to 25%. Each receiver must be connected to an external antenna, which

4032-453: The Spanish language , ESPN Deportes Radio is the largest current network. In contrast, Canadian sports talk stations may carry a national brand (such as TSN Radio or Sportsnet Radio ) but carry mostly local programming, with American-based shows filling in gaps. Compared to other formats, interactive "talkback" sports radio poses difficulties for Internet radio , since as a live format it

4144-604: The 2005–2006 season, and in 2007 Sirius/XM gained exclusive rights to NHL games. Sirius also had full NASCAR coverage, including a weekly show hosted by now-retired driver Tony Stewart . In 2009, Sirius/XM was the first to carry live coverage of the 24-hour road race from Le Mans . Sirius/XM also had the rights to a number of major college sports teams, including teams in the Big East , Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences , as well as The University of Notre Dame . Beginning in 2005, Sirius also had exclusive radio rights to cover

4256-728: The 2018 repeal of the United States' Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 , a variant of the format focusing upon sports betting began to emerge. In August 2019, SportsMap (then SB Nation Radio) and Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN) launched the BetR Network with affiliates in Las Vegas and Atlantic City at launch, while Philadelphia's WDAS flipped to a sports format featuring local programs involving sports betting. Broadcaster Audacy began to deploy its BetQL Network to more of its stations in June 2021 (using

4368-469: The ABC News and Talk channel 143 (since having ceased operations), including live feeds of Sean Hannity and Larry Elder's syndicated radio shows, Patriot Talk channel 125 (which includes Michael Reagan's syndicated radio show) and Fox News Talk channel 145 (which includes syndicated radio hosts such as Alan Colmes and John Gibson). On March 14, 2006, Sirius added Cosmo Radio , Playboy Radio , and returned

4480-733: The FM dial in Dallas ( 105.3 The Fan ), Boston ( 98.5 The Sports Hub ), Pittsburgh ( 93.7 The Fan ), Washington, DC ( 106.7 The Fan ), Baltimore ( 105.7 The Fan ) and Cleveland ( 92.3 The Fan ), in addition to simulcasting Philadelphia 's heritage 610 WIP onto the former WYSP . Other non-CBS stations have also migrated to the FM dial, most notably Clear Channel's KFAN in Minneapolis , Greater Media's WPEN in Pennsylvania and Dispatch Media's WBNS-FM in Columbus , just to name

4592-709: The Fight Network" and "All the particulars (Presenters) that were on the show you know, are going to be gone." He went on to speculate that The LAW may be turned into an "Impact promotional show". Many of the LAW hosts including those from the associated podcasts received overwhelming support from their fans on Twitter, including Jason Agnew, John Pollock, Wai Ting, Braden Herrington, "Bartender" Dave, Brian Mann, and Nate Milton, while Chris Charlton, WH Park, Martian Bushby, and Richard Benson publicly thanked The LAW & John Pollock for their opportunities with "Japanese Audio Wrestling" and "British Audio Wrestling" respectively. Oli Court of "British Audio Wrestling" hinted "it's not

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4704-623: The Impact acquisition has devastated Anthem's television network, first losing Robin Black and now Pollock, who is the total real deal as a reporter. I've been doing that show every weekend for 19 years and have enjoyed it greatly. John, Jason and Dan Lovranski have been great to work with and I wish the best to all of them Wrestling Observer On the October 31 edition of Wrestling Observer Radio , Meltzer stated "The amount of money that they're (Anthem) losing on Impact, has led to them doing cuts on

4816-423: The LAW not been shut down. The first episode of the spiritual successor of Review-a-Wai under the Post Wrestling banner, Rewind-a-Wai , launched with the review intended for the announced episode. Japanese Audio Wrestling is a monthly podcast hosted by Chris Charlton and WH Park, both having previously contributed to various LAW-related shows and podcasts, focusing in on Japanese wrestling. The first episode

4928-521: The Mad Dog attended the 1990 Super Bowl , about 100 attended the 2004 Super Bowl 's radio row . Sports talk is available in local, network and syndicated forms, is available in multiple languages, and is carried in multiple forms on both major North American satellite radio networks. In the United States, most sports talk-formatted radio stations air syndicated programming from ESPN Radio , SportsMap , Sports Byline USA , Fox Sports Radio , Infinity Sports Network , or NBC Sports Radio , while in

5040-461: The Morning during morning drive time to provide as much national clearance as possible; in contrast, it carries less prominent programming in the afternoon drive to accommodate local sports talk, as well as in the evening (for its first two decades, rolling score updates aired under the banner of GameNight ) to allow stations to break away for local sporting events. Somewhat unusually for radio,

5152-603: The October 29 edition of The LAW was made available for podcasting. The host's initial plan for the next week involved a returning John Pollock reviewing Impact's Bound For Glory 2017, and UFC 217 . It was reported on the Wrestling Observer / Figure Four Online website in Dave Meltzer's October 30 Daily Update that; Very sorry to report that Live Audio Wrestling has been canceled and John Pollock and Jason Agnew were let go by The Fight Network. It's sad that

5264-558: The Post Wrestling banner with a new name, with no specified timeframe for a relaunch. Related to Japanese Audio Wrestling is the LAW's daily coverage of the G1 Climax tournament each year, with John Pollock recapping most days of the tournament and Chris Charlton and WH Park recapping the remaining days of the tournament. The MMA Report with John Pollock is a radio show hosted by John Pollock on TSN Radio , first airing on July 5, 2012. It airs Friday at midnight on TSN Radio (though

5376-414: The Post Wrestling banner, Rewind-a-SmackDown , launched on December 27, 2017. whtsNXT (pronounced as "what's next") is a podcast hosted by Jason Agnew and technical producer Braden Herrington, focusing on NXT , while incorporating elements from Bite Network Radio . The name was chosen to not only reflect the product being reviewed (a show based on developmental wrestling), but also the fact that this

5488-455: The Post Wrestling banner, titled upNXT and hosted by Braden Herrington and Davie Portman, was launched on March 22, 2018. "Review-A-Wai" is a weekly review podcast starring John Pollock and Wai Ting, which was originally presented immediately following the archived episode of the LAW and was later made available separately. The first episode was posted on September 13, 2009. The two primarily review older wrestling pay-per-view events from

5600-513: The afternoon edition moved to 5:00 p.m. In February 1999, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter began a weekly segment during the program. The LAW aired on The Fan 590 until September 2000 when it moved to rival station CFYI Talk 640 as a companion to the station's recently acquired radio broadcasts of Toronto Maple Leafs games. The evening broadcast was moved from Saturdays to Sundays. In April 2001,

5712-588: The afternoon edition of The LAW was dropped during the station's re-launch under the Mojo Radio format, while The LAW remained on the station through 2006 In January 2005, Fight Network purchased a majority stake in The LAW , and in February of that same year announced that they had secured an agreement with Broadcast News for national syndicated the program through Fight Network Radio . Affiliates of

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5824-463: The analog audio signal. The front-end of a Sirius receiver is called the head unit , required to display descriptive text (such as the category, channel, artist, and song name) and provide controls to the user. This is implemented by the third-party designers of Sirius-ready receivers, using a microprocessor of their choice. Sirius offers car radios and home entertainment systems, as well as car and home kits for portable use. The Sirius receiver includes

5936-530: The antenna module and the receiver module. The antenna module picks up signals from the ground repeaters or the satellite, amplifies the signal and filters out any interference. The signal is then passed on to the receiver module. Inside the receiver module is a chipset consisting of eight chips. The chipset converts the signals from 2.3 gigahertz (GHz) to a lower intermediate frequency. Sirius also offers an adapter that allows conventional car radios to receive satellite signals. Sirius broadcasts using 12.5 MHz of

6048-565: The antenna should be placed on an exterior wall. When placing on an exterior wall, the antenna should be mounted to a wall which faces the southern continental United States in order to minimize the likelihood of the building itself blocking the signal. Sirius' satellites are named Radiosat because there is already a fleet of satellites named Sirius , launched by Sweden's NSAB (Nordiska Satellitaktiebolaget, or Nordic Satellite AB, and known today as SES Sirius ) and used for general telecommunications and satellite television throughout Sweden and

6160-630: The audio programming, the Sirius broadcast stream also carries a Data Services channel that is utilized by capable receivers and graphical display hardware. Some of the data services offered are traffic speed and flow, marine weather, and fuel prices to name just a few. Examples of capable hardware are the Raymarine SR100 Satellite Weather receiver and the Alpine NVE-N872A Satellite Traffic Ready navigation system. The Sirius signal

6272-572: The audio simulcast of the Fox News Channel TV feed, which was previously removed during a contract dispute. The service also added Fox's satellite talk radio channel, Fox News Talk . In April 2003, Sirius launched Sirius OutQ , the first-ever 24/7 talk channel designed for the LGBT audience. Personalities associated with the channel include Frank DeCaro , Michelangelo Signorile , Derek Hartley , and Romaine Patterson . In addition to

6384-436: The co-hosts, often relating to the show being reviewed. On occasion, when either co-host is unavailable, a substitute co-host has joined the other co-host; most notably, Arda Ocal has been a guest reviewer on "Review-A-Wai" on several occasions during the years that the LAW and "Aftermath" ( The Score Television Network 's wrestling analysis show, co-hosted by Arda Ocal) were promoted together. Damian Abraham has also been

6496-541: The company CD Radio, and spent the next five years lobbying the FCC to allow satellite radio to be deployed, and the following five years raising $ 1.6 billion, which was used to build and launch three satellites into elliptical orbit from Kazakhstan in July 2000. The company successfully bid $ 83.3 million to purchase their satellite radio license. In 1997, after Margolese had obtained regulatory clearance and "effectively created

6608-402: The core audio content. This architecture has worked remarkably well in avoiding drop out of audio signal when driving under highway overpasses, and when scintillating (very deep and frequent losses in signal strength caused by radio fading from trees) conditions exist. Since Sirius and XM separately entered the market with incompatible waveforms on the satellite, one would logically conclude that

6720-436: The demographic of male, on talk radio in the Toronto market, in its time slot. In April 2006, The Bureau of Broadcast Measurement released their spring ratings with The LAW ranking No. 1 among Males 25 - 49 on Sunday nights with an 18.7 share and also scoring a 17.8 share among Males 18 – 34. Starting in the winter of 2007, John Pollock began to host an extended, online edition of The LAW called Live Audio Xtra . The segment

6832-594: The end of anything just yet!" and Jojo Remy of "Japanese Audio Wrestling" stated "Not sure what this means for my show. I’ll continue to be a strong presence at Voices of Wrestling." Starting with the day after the shutdown of the LAW, John Pollock and Wai Ting continued to post audio reviews of Raw and SmackDown , under the temporary titles of John Pollock and Wai Ting Review Raw and John Pollock and Wai Ting Review SmackDown , respectively. On their first episode as independent podcasters, both hosts (Pollock had been one of Fight Network's longest-tenured employees, and, at

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6944-617: The end of his second year on Sirius, from fewer than 700,000 subscribers to 6 million (see graph on the right). Stern now has two channels operating on Sirius, but still retains the right to a third. Sirius/XM's channels carried an array of programming that covered Music, News/Talk, Sports, and Entertainment. Sirius had deals with entertainers and personalities for broadcast streams. Besides Stern, Sirius had deals with Martha Stewart , E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt , Jimmy Buffett , and Eminem to executive-produce streams or channels on Sirius. Van Zandt created two stations for Sirius:

7056-520: The full televised version and Raw in 3 Minutes is available from the Live Audio Wrestling YouTube channel. In mid-2017, Review-A-Raw was made into a web-only video series alongside Review-a-SmackDown , ending the run of Raw in 3 Minutes . The last episode of Review-a-Raw was posted on October 23, 2017. Following the shutdown of the LAW a week later, John Pollock and Wai Ting continued to post audio reviews of Raw under

7168-545: The games with a premium subscription. In August 2003, Sirius partnered with Clearwater, Florida -based Applied Media Technologies Corporation , a provider of telephone "on hold" messaging. AMTC provides Sirius service in a package branded as Sirius Music for Business . For US$ 29.95 per month, AMTC provides all of Sirius' streams of commercial-free music, and pays all performance royalties to ASCAP , Broadcast Music Incorporated , and SESAC , so that business owners may legally play Sirius' music in their establishments. Unlike

7280-399: The general public. Prominent sports radio stations typically get their greatest listenership from live play-by-play of local major professional sports league or college sports franchises; less prominent stations (especially on the AM dial) may not have this option because of poorer (or for daytime-only stations, non-existent) nighttime signals and smaller budgets for rights fees. Following

7392-457: The group (aside from its flagship Toronto stations) included: CKST Vancouver , CFRN Edmonton , CFGO Ottawa , CHMJ Vancouver , and CJOB Winnipeg . In July 2006, The LAW moved to CFRB and retained its 11pm time-slot. In the Fall 2006, LAW announced that the show would eventually begin to air in simulcast on Fight Network , though nothing came of it. The show is ranked No. 1 in

7504-413: The incoming satellite and terrestrial signals at 2.315 GHz and downconverts them to intermediate frequency signals at around 75 MHz. The strength of the signals is approximately −50dBm in clear-sky conditions. The IF signals are fed to the STA240, which are digitized, demodulated, error-corrected, de-interleaved, and decrypted using specialized circuits on the chip. The baseband processor utilizes

7616-424: The industry," the FCC also sold a license to XM Satellite Radio, which followed Sirius's example. In November 1999, Marketing chief Ira Bahr convinced Margolese to again change the name of the company, this time to Sirius Satellite Radio, in order to avoid association with the soon-to-be-outdated CD technology. It had secured installation deals with automakers including Chrysler , Ford and BMW . Sirius launched

7728-469: The initial phase of its service in four cities, with the first receiver sold at Cowboy Maloney's in Jackson, MS on February 14, 2002, expanding to the rest of the contiguous United States on July 1, 2002. In 2001 Margolese stepped down as CEO, remaining as chairman until November 2003, with Sirius issuing a statement thanking him "for his great vision, leadership and dedication in creating both Sirius and

7840-406: The initial prototypes, although all of the early receivers included an Agere chipset known as Northstar. This platform enjoyed the highest volume of chipsets to date, representing the bulk of total production from 2002 to 2010. As of 2010, most of the chipsets are produced by STMicroelectronics. At the heart of a Sirius receiver is a custom application-specific integrated circuit ( ASIC ) chip called

7952-401: The internet to any of its subscribers with a valid user name and password. On July 29, 2008, Sirius formally completed its merger with former competitor XM Satellite Radio . The combined company began operating under the name Sirius XM Satellite Radio . On November 12, 2008, Sirius and XM began broadcasting with their new, combined channel lineups. On January 13, 2011, Sirius Satellite Radio

8064-611: The island of Puerto Rico by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In March 2007, Sirius announced the availability of its first video service called "Backseat TV". In August 2007, the company revealed details of the first receiver, the SCV1, was originally offered exclusively through Chrysler OEM factory units. The service includes streaming video from three "family" television channels: Nickelodeon , Disney Channel and Cartoon Network Mobile. There

8176-401: The late-night and overnight hosts have more prominence on a sports talk network, due to a near-complete lack of local preemption. Sports radio stations typically depend on drawing an audience that fits advertiser-friendly key demographics , particularly young men with the disposable income to invest in sports fandom, since the format does not have the broad appeal to reach a critical mass in

8288-475: The latter's launch in December 2017. As a spinoff of Review-A-Wai , John Pollock and Wai Ting also review each week's edition of WWE Raw in a separate podcast series. As with Review-A-Wai , each episode John Pollock and Wai Ting run down the previous episode of WWE Raw and end by reading listener feedback. The first episode of Review-A-Raw was posted on July 6, 2010. For a time in 2011, Review-A-Raw

8400-493: The merged company will eventually evolve the signal format again to take advantage of their size, but this is a speculative statement. The use of a satellite and terrestrial combined service has been adopted by the DVB-SH standard, and companies such as ICO communications who cooperated with Alcatel-Lucent on system design and field trials. ONDAS, a Madrid-based company, also adopted this pioneering system architecture. The receiver

8512-425: The merger in December 2012. On February 19, 2007, Sirius announced a merger deal with competitor XM Satellite Radio . If the pending merger received government approval, which was required because of antitrust considerations, it would combine the two services into a single satellite radio network in the United States and would be named Sirius/XM Radio. On March 24, 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice approved

8624-515: The merger of Sirius and XM. Approval from the FCC cleared on July 25, 2008. Conditions of the merger included allowing any third-party company to make satellite radio devices; producing new radios that can receive both XM and Sirius channels within one year; allowing consumers to choose which channels they would like to have; freezing subscription rates for three years; setting aside 8% of its channels for noncommercial programmers; and paying $ 19.7 million in fines for past rule violations. According to

8736-519: The mid to late 1990s, but have since branched out to other media relating to wrestling and mixed martial arts. Notably, in a homage to an early "Ask-a-Wai" episode where John and Wai reviewed a wrestling-related pornographic film, the second and third anniversary shows had John and Wai review a wrestling-related pornographic film; the visible discomfort of Wai reviewing the film has led them to discontinue reviewing wrestling-related pornographic films. Reviews of classic events often contain audio clips from

8848-409: The morning of October 30, 2017, the LAW issued a statement: Effective immediately, Live Audio Wrestling (The LAW) is being placed on a short hiatus. The program will be relaunched with a new format in the coming weeks. Stay tuned! Live Audio Wrestling, http://fightnetwork.com/law/law-update/ https://twitter.com/LAWradio/status/925117227854127104 The announcement came fourteen hours after

8960-481: The music services Muzak / DMX Music or Music Choice , the SiriusXM for Business service uses the same channels and SDARS delivery platform as the consumer Sirius service. The SDARS delivery platform, on the other hand, is more reliable than any of the other services in that it is not subject to satellite dish rain fade . The highly elliptical orbit of the Sirius satellite constellation can pose difficulties for

9072-560: The on-air brand The Bet ), alongside an expansion of their daily schedule. Stations with such formats may still affiliate with a mainstream sports radio network to fill the remainder of their schedule, with the aforementioned WDAS otherwise carrying Fox Sports Radio (as well as Philadelphia Union soccer), BetR including programming from co-owner SportsMap on its lineup, and BetQL being often carried alongside CBS Sports Radio on its owned-and-operated stations. 88.9 Brila FM : Sports Radio 88.9 Brila FM, owned by Brila Broadcasting Services,

9184-399: The popular programs All Things Considered and Morning Edition . With the launch of Sirius Canada in December 2005, American listeners gained five Canadian-produced stations including CBC Radio One , CBC Radio Three and Iceberg Radio , and Première Plus , Énergie2 , and Bande à part for French listeners. Iceberg Radio is programmed by Standard Broadcasting , which also provides

9296-464: The previous episode of WWE SmackDown , ending with listener feedback. The first episode of Review-A-SmackDown was posted on August 31, 2011, with Jason Agnew filling in for Wai Ting; the first episode with Wai Ting was posted on December 1, 2011. Up until the second WWE brand extension , Review-A-SmackDown would be produced only on a show-by-show basis, and not every live episode of WWE SmackDown would be reviewed. Review-A-SmackDown would become

9408-599: The program. This segment of the show was discontinued for a brief period of time, but returned to The LAW in 2011. The LAW aired its final edition on CFRB on January 11, 2009, moving to the Sirius Satellite Radio channel Hardcore Sports Radio (later known as The Score Satellite Radio), maintaining its Sunday night timeslot, and still being produced from CFRB's studios. After the closure of The Score Satellite Radio in August 2011, The LAW briefly became

9520-458: The ranks (Dan Lovranski, Jason Agnew, John Pollock, and Wai Ting were all, at one point, technical producers on The LAW), with the veteran Agnew guiding the rookie Braden, akin to NXT itself. The first episode was posted on October 7, 2013 as an addition to the LAW's podcast, but thereafter was separately posted on Thursdays thereafter. "Bartender" Dave debuted on the January 21st 2016 edition of "whtsNXT" alongside Jason Agnew, he has since become

9632-455: The receiver before being decoded. Heavy error correction is applied to the signals. All three signals contain the same audio content on all the channels that the receiver can receive, with the exception of one audio program waveform being transmitted ahead of the other two by approximately four seconds. With this time skew, the signals, once realigned, need to see an 8-second obstruction of overpass fade in order to lose audio content. This increases

9744-487: The receiver equipment ). There is a US$ 15 activation fee for every radio activated. Sirius announced it had achieved its first positive cash flow quarter for the period ending December 2006. Sirius launched its radio service in four states on February 14, 2002, expanding service to the rest of the contiguous U.S. by July of that year. On October 16, 2006, Sirius announced that it would be launching Sirius Internet Radio, with 78 of its 135 channels being available worldwide on

9856-635: The reliable delivery of the signal to stationary antennas in certain parts of the country. To eliminate this potential problem, Sirius launched a new geostationary satellite , FM-5, to improve service to non-mobile customers such as those of SiriusXM for Business. The service can also be accessed online using Sirius' online streaming technology, allowing any business with a broadband Internet connection to overcome any potential reception issues. Additionally, Sirius applied for repeaters in Hawaii and Alaska and has already been granted authority for 20 repeaters covering

9968-518: The robustness of the signal delivery in most driving conditions. In order to recover meaningful signal and error-free audio from a signal impaired by interference and fading, the receiver uses concatenated Reed-Solomon block coding and Forward Error Correction encoding and decoding (codec). This technique was proven in the early days of satellite modems in the late 1970s. Linkabit, then run by Irwin Jacobs prior to his involvement with Qualcomm, offered such

10080-457: The same day. With the launch of "Review-A-SmackDown" as a regular weekly series, "Review-A-Wai" became a biweekly series posted on Fridays, alternating with "Bauer & Pollock" . Following the end of "Bauler & Pollock" , "Review-A-Wai" will continue to be a biweekly series on Fridays alternating with "Keep It 2000" . The final episode of Review-a-Wai was posted on October 19, 2017, with an announced episode that would have aired had

10192-427: The same frequency, forming a single frequency network. A number of transmitters can be placed around a city to create coverage that is less subject to fading than if a single transmitter were used. The satellite signal is QPSK. Both satellite and terrestrial signals have hierarchical modulation superposed on the original signal, a measure created to add bandwidth at a small expense in the satellite link budget for decoding

10304-400: The same sitting, there may be segments omitted from the televised portion; a selection of segments from the podcast version may be, at their discretion, posted to the Fight Network's YouTube page as Review-A-Raw Extra ; the first Review-A-Raw Extra segment was dedicated to a contest selecting the televised series' theme music. As the podcast version takes precedence, the television edition of

10416-770: The satellite radio industry." The first confirmed music transmission from satellite to radio receiver for Sirius was September 1, 2000, in NYC at the current HQ of SiriusXM. Ten employees were present during the first music transmission. One being Lawrence J. Simon, current VP Business and Ground Ops (Former B2B board member for NASCAR, Director of labs for Lockheed Martin and Grumman), Paul De Lia, current Senior Advisor for BCG (Former CTO for L3-Harris). Joe Clayton, former CEO of Global Crossing , followed as CEO from November 2001 until November 2004. He remained chairman until July 2008. Mel Karmazin , former president of Viacom , became CEO in November 2004 and remained in that position through

10528-417: The show include: Former co-hosts of the spinoff series shows include: ^ List of presenters only until time of hiatus, for full list of former presenters and spinoff series shows see below. Over the years, there have been several radio shows and podcasts that have complemented the LAW. Since the shutdown of the LAW, these shows were also put on hiatus, with many of them migrating to Post Wrestling upon

10640-619: The show is likely to be pre-empted in the event of other Fight Network commitments by either host; this first occurred on July 5, 2016, where Jason Agnew would host an audio-only edition in lieu of the televised show, due to John and Wai covering UFC 200 for Fight Network. The final "podcast-only" episode of Review-A-Raw was posted March 31, 2015, with the first episode of the televised series aired on Fight Network on April 7, 2015. In January 2016, John Pollock and Wai Ting also produced an additional televised segment, Raw in 3 Minutes , co-branded with Fight Network's Fight News Now branding; both

10752-431: The show itself is available as a podcast on the LAW podcast feed one day before), and is touted as "the third hour" of the LAW as repeats of the show air immediately after the LAW on weeks without an Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view (when The UFC Post Fight Show airs in its place instead). As with the LAW, it is also broadcast in the Vancouver market (formerly CFTE and presently CKST ) since 2013. The show

10864-490: The show's popularity, TSN 's Off the Record has featured past and current co-hosts of the radio program as guest panelists over the years. Live Audio Wrestling announced its cancellation on October 30, 2017, due to cutbacks following Anthem Sports & Entertainment 's acquisition of TNA Wrestling , which impacted The LAW' s syndicator, Fight Network Radio . Most of its segments and spin-off shows have since migrated to

10976-430: The show(s) they are reviewing; at the end of the show, John and Wai also respond to listener feedback after the review. On occasion, they air relevant clips from previous interviews conducted with various wrestling personalities and/or interview people involved with the event being reviewed, including clips from past "Live Audio Wrestling" shows. Each episode also ends with a piece of music specifically selected by one of

11088-452: The station's online feed from airing Toronto Raptors games. In an effort to secure studio time, the show was taped early in the morning. Due to popular demand and listener support, The LAW soon became part of The Fan' s normal lineup, airing in the early afternoon on Saturdays. The show later expanded to include a two-hour late-night program on Sunday nights from 1:00 to 3:00 a.m., later moved to Saturdays at 11:00 p.m. in late 1999, while

11200-663: The team's basketball program . Having celebrated its 50th anniversary on air during the 2015–2016 season, Hall Line , which broadcasts to central and northern New Jersey as well as all five boroughs of New York, is the oldest and longest running sports talk call-in show in the NY-NJ Metropolitan area, and is believed to be the oldest in the nation. Enterprise Radio Network became the first national all-sports network, operating out of Avon, Connecticut, from New Year's Day 1981 through late September of that year before going out of business. ER had two channels, one for talk and

11312-423: The temporary title of John Pollock and Wai Ting Review Raw . The full-time replacement for Review-a-Raw under the Post Wrestling banner, Rewind-a-Raw , launched on December 25, 2017. On selected weeks with a live episode of WWE SmackDown , a third LAW podcast starring John Pollock and Wai Ting is also available for download on Wednesdays. Like Review-A-Raw and Review-An-Impact , Review-A-SmackDown reviews

11424-520: The time a spinoff of AT&T. Early prototypes were followed by a number of generations of ASIC custom designed chipsets, supplied at first by Agere Systems and later supplied by Agere Systems and their competitor STMicroelectronics. Three signals from three different sources (satellite, satellite, and terrestrial) are therefore combined in the receiver as radio signals, (not as audio signals). The three signals need to be combined constructively (avoiding situations where bad signals pollute good signals) in

11536-403: The time of their release, one of the few remaining full-time journalists) discussed the news of being released from Fight Network (also stating that Dan "The Mouth" Lovranski and Jason Agnew were released), thanking their fans for all the support they received, their plans for their "future endeavours", alongside the review of Raw . In January 2018, Impact Wrestling announced that a new show with

11648-452: Was Braden's first foray into radio broadcasting (having joined shortly after the LAW debuted on TSN Radio as one of his first industry jobs), and a turning point in Agnew's television career (having left Bite TV since the LAW debuted on TSN Radio, leaving him with no permanent work in television aside from Splatalot ). It is seen as continuing in the "rite of passage" of LAW hosts moving up

11760-450: Was a result of Bell Labs' efforts in statistical multiplexing of perceptual audio coded signals, a cousin of the MP3 standards. The waveform design for the terrestrial and satellite signals, as well as the early prototype receivers, were implemented in an FPGA logic and tested in the field to verify the performance of the receivers. This work was contracted by Sirius to Lucent Technologies , at

11872-412: Was also made available as a web video, under the same format as Review-a-Raw . The last episode of Review-a-Smackdown was posted on October 25, 2017. Following the shutdown of the LAW later that week, John Pollock and Wai Ting continued to post audio reviews of SmackDown under the temporary title of John Pollock and Wai Ting Review SmackDown . The full-time replacement of Review-a-SmackDown , under

11984-560: Was available as a live podcast, airing over the internet via Stickam immediately following WWE Raw , but it reverted to a taped format over technical issues resulting in one or both hosts being knocked off of the air. As announced during a live Review-A-Wai podcast held immediately prior to WrestleMania 31 , the Review-A-Raw name expanded to also encompass a television series broadcast on Fight Network, with John Pollock and Wai Ting as co-hosts. The televised version of Review-A-Raw

12096-510: Was dissolved as a separate entity and merged into Sirius XM Radio, Inc. Sirius was founded by Martine Rothblatt , who served as the new company's Chairman of the Board. Co-founder David Margolese served as Chief Executive Officer and Robert Briskman served as President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1990, Rothblatt founded Satellite CD Radio, Inc. in Washington, D.C. The company

12208-560: Was forced by the stringent regulations of the FCC whose enforcement was intensified following the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy . In the wake of the announcement of his pending departure, Stern complained that Infinity Broadcasting was making his departure more acrimonious than was necessary. The deal, which gave Sirius exclusive rights to Stern's radio show, also gave Stern the right to build three full-time programming channels. His audience had grown almost tenfold by

12320-420: Was posted on August 1, 2012. New host Jojo Remy joined the show on the January 6th, 2017, replacing the leaving pair of Chris Charlton & WH Park. From the 2017 April 3 edition WH Park has made a number of returning guest appearances. Although put on hiatus with the shutdown of the LAW in October 2017, as part of the launch of Post Wrestling, it was announced that Japanese Audio Wrestling would continue under

12432-653: Was the Eternal Word Television Network . Among the hosts with Sirius/XM shows were: Sirius also broadcast sports content. It had exclusive satellite radio broadcasting rights to all NFL , CFL and NBA games. In December 2005, Sirius announced a multi-year deal with the NBA. The agreement also created a 24-hour NBA Radio Channel. Sirius aired Full Court Press, an all-NBA show. On November 12, 2008, NBA games switched to XM and were replaced by Sporting News Radio . NHL games were shared with XM for

12544-602: Was the first to petition the FCC to assign unused frequencies for satellite radio broadcast, which "provoked a furor among owners of both large and small [terrestrial] radio stations." Rothblatt had previously helped create the PanAmSat international satellite television system, and helped launch and served as CEO of the Geostar satellite navigation system. In April 1992, she resigned as chairman and CEO of Sirius in order to start

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