XM Announces New Sports Program Offerings

XM Satellite Radio will launch a24-hour Spanish-language sports channel in partnership with Andres Cantor, the legendary soccer play-by-play announcer and chairman of Futbol de Primera, a syndicator of soccer programming in Hispanic radio. The channel is expected to launch in July, XM said. XM also signed a deal to be the exclusive satellite radio broadcaster for the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 international soccer tournament. XM will provide play-by-play coverage of all 64 games in the tournament, as well as team selection and qualifying matches in both English and Spanish languages. The Spanish coverage of the World Cup will be broadcast over the new 24-hour Spanish-language sports channel. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.