SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Inaugural "WORLDSPACE Honours," "UPop@Abbey Road Sessions," live coverage of the 2007 BRIT Awards, exclusive artist interviews and performances, and on-air features on WORLDSPACE(R) Satellite Radio , one of the world leaders in satellite-based digital radio services, provide subscribers with a unique, personalized listening experience throughout the month of February.
WORLDSPACE will kick off "Honours Week" with its own inaugural satellite radio awards show, WORLDSPACE Honours, on Feb. 12 live from Studio 2 at Abbey Road, the legendary recording studio of The Beatles. WORLDSPACE Honours will be the first satellite radio award show to recognize music and artistic contribution by artists from more than 20 musical genres represented on WORLDSPACE channels ranging from Up Country to Jhankaar and The System to Shruti. The honorees will be chosen by WORLDSPACE's executive selection committee made up of programming staff from each of the 20 channels represented.
"WORLDSPACE Honours presents a completely new format for satellite music awards and was created to reflect the diversity of our music programming, the expertise of our staff, and the broad range of preferences of our subscribers," said William Sabatini, vice president of global programming, WORLDSPACE Satellite Radio. "We are also thrilled to be announcing our choices for the WORLDSPACE Honours, live from the prestigious Abbey Road Studios."
WORLDSPACE's Ted Kelly, vice president of content marketing and Velu Shankar, director of network programming for WORLDSPACE India, will host the awards show and will announce this year's 23 honourees. Specialty programming is being created by the Company to showcase each artist and will include interviews, career highlights, background information and their music. Subscribers can listen throughout the day for all honourees and can tune in to their favorite WORLDSPACE Satellite Radio channel from Feb. 16-19, when each honouree's works will be showcased throughout the weekend.
Subscribers can get and can get more information about the WORLDSPACE Honours and their favorite honourees beginning Feb. 12 at http://www.worldspacehonours.com/.
"Honours Week" will also feature the second annual "UPop @ Abbey Road Sessions" which will officially kick off with the Honours Award Show on Feb. 12 and run through Feb. 15. The sessions will feature four days of exclusive performances and recording sessions from some of yesterday's and today's hottest stars, live from Abbey Road Studio 2. Additionally, WORLDSPACE will again host the global broadcast of Europe's biggest music event -- the BRIT Awards -- on Feb. 14. The live broadcast will feature exclusive backstage and red carpet interviews, celebrity appearances and performances by more than a dozen superstars.
With more than 40 channels of music, news, sports and information, WORLDSPACE Satellite Radio offers something for everyone, in every community, in every country in its coverage area.
New shows and content for February include:
Date Channel Program Time
Feb 12 UPop WORLDSPACE "Honours" Award Check local
Show featuring nominees and listings
categories from more than 20
musical genres. Acceptance
speeches and live
performances.
Feb 14 UPop "From Abbey Road with Love" - Check local
A Valentine's Day celebration listings
of The Beatles 'LOVE' CD. Lead
up to the BRIT Awards.
Feb 14 UPop The BRIT Awards 2007 - live Check local
broadcast of the awards listings
including backstage interviews,
pre-show interviews from the
red carpet and live performances.
Feb 12 - 15 UPop UPop Sessions @ Abbey Road - Check local
four days of exclusive listings
performances and live
recording sessions by some
of the hottest stars from the
legendary recording studio of
The Beatles
Feb 16-19 All Special programming featuring Check local
Participating the first ever WORLDSPACE listings
Channels Honours
About WORLDSPACE(R) Satellite Radio
Based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Worldspace, Inc. is the world's only global media and entertainment company positioned to offer a satellite radio experience to consumers in more than 130 countries with five billion people, driving 300 million cars. WORLDSPACE delivers the latest tunes, trends and information from around the world and around the corner.
WORLDSPACE subscribers benefit from a unique combination of local programming, original WORLDSPACE content and content from leading brands around the globe including the BBC, CNN, Virgin Radio UK, NDTV and RFI. The WORLDSPACE satellites cover two-thirds of the earth's population with six beams. Each beam is capable of delivering up to 80 channels of high quality digital audio and multimedia programming directly to WORLDSPACE Satellite Radios anytime and virtually anywhere in its coverage areas. WORLDSPACE is a pioneer of satellite-based digital radio services (DARS) and was instrumental in the development of the technology infrastructure used today by XM Satellite Radio. For more information, visit http://www.worldspace.com/.
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