P.O.T.U.S.

Broadcast area	United States Canada
Branding	POTUS Politics
Slogan	"Politics of the United States, for the people of the United States"
Frequency	XM 124 Sirius 124
First air date	June 2007 Launched 2007-09-24
Format	Political Talk
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Owner	Sirius XM Radio C-SPAN
Website	Sirius P.O.T.U.S. XM P.O.T.U.S.

Sirius logo as Indie Talk.

Former XM Logo and slogan as P.O.T.U.S. '08. Since the Sirius/XM channel merger on November 12, 2008, only the "P.O.T.U.S." info was used until the logo change in April 2009.

P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States) is a Sirius XM Radio channel featuring political talk radio. It was the result of a merger between the Indie Talk channel on Sirius and the P.O.T.U.S. '08 channel on XM. As of April 2009 the channel had a new logo consisting of "POTUS" in all blue letters and its full name underneath. It is located on XM 124^[1] (previously 130) and Sirius 124 (previously 110).

P.O.T.U.S. '08 [edit]

P.O.T.U.S. '08 on XM Channel 130 was a joint venture between XM and public radio/television service C-SPAN and was intended as a public service. Taking its name from the acronym for President of the United States, the station covered the United States 2008 presidential election. It did not carry commercial advertising and also did not require an XM subscription to be heard.^[2]

A preview of the channel started in June 2007, and it was launched on 2007-09-24.^[3]

P.O.T.U.S. '08 featured news, interviews, speeches, complete debates, polls, fundraising status, and live call-in shows. Bloggers and podcasters provided content for the channel. In addition to current election events, P.O.T.U.S. '08 used C-SPAN's archive to air archival audio of historic moments from past campaigns.

The channel was intended to be temporary, ceasing operations after the Presidential election in November 2008.^[2] However, as of 2008-11-12, it merged with Sirius Indie Talk to become "POTUS - Politics of the United States", with a mixture of programming from the two stations.^[4]

Partial list of events covered by P.O.T.U.S. '08

• 2007-06-28 - All American Presidential Forums on PBS
• 2007-07-23 - CNN/YouTube debate (Democratic candidates)
• 2007-08-05 - Presidential debates hosted by ABC News (Republican candidates)
• 2007-08-07 - AFL-CIO’s town hall forum for Democratic candidates in Chicago
• 2007-08-09 - Presidential debates hosted by Logo focusing on LGBT issues (Democratic candidates)
• 2007-08-19 - Presidential debates hosted by ABC News (Democratic candidates)
• 2007-09-27 - All American Presidential Forums on PBS (Republican candidates)
• 2007-11-28 - CNN/YouTube debate (Republican candidates)
• 2008-01-21 - The Congressional Black Caucus debate hosted by CNN (Democratic candidates)

Nonpartisan Programming [edit]

P.O.T.U.S promotes itself as "neither left, nor right." Several hosts hold themselves out as independent or nonpartisan in their political viewpoints.^[5] Tim Farley describes his show as an "unbiased roundup of the news," Julie Mason provides "unfiltered audio" of political events, Patrick Ferrise hosts the "Raw Feed," which claims to move "beyond the sound-bite," and further describes itself as involving "[n]o pundits, no spin, just the raw feed," and Bruce DuMont offers to "provide a fresh and balanced perspective of national politics." Many shows feature policy analysts, journalists, and academics as guests.

List of programs [edit]

Regular weekday programming:^[6][7]

• Morning Briefing with Tim Farley
• Press Pool

Weekend and other programming:

• PJM Political from PajamasMedia
• The New School with Charles Ellison
• Weekend Briefing with Tim Farley
• The Washington Post Politics Program with Ed O'Keefe and Emily Freifeld
• The Raw Feed
• FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace
• ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos
• Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont
• The Ed Rollins Show with Ed Rollins (off the air)

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• P.O.T.U.S. on xmradio.com
• P.O.T.U.S. page on sirius.com