P.O.T.U.S.
Broadcast area	United States  Canada (Sirius only)
Branding	POTUS Politics
Slogan	"Unfiltered political talk"
Frequency	XM 130 Sirius 110
First air date	June 2007 Launched 2007-09-24
Format	Political Talk
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Owner	Sirius XM Radio C-SPAN
Website	P.O.T.U.S.

Sirius logo as Indie Talk.

Former XM Logo and slogan as P.O.T.U.S. '08

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 has a new logo consisting of "POTUS" in all blue letters and its full name underneath.

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

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^[1].

A preview of the channel started in June 2007, and it was launched on 2007-09-24^[2].

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^[1]. 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.^[3]

[edit] 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 canaidates)
• 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)

[edit] List of programs

Regular weekday programming:^[4][5]

• Morning Briefing with Tim Farley.
• Press Pool with Joe Mathieu.
• Stand Up! With Pete Dominick.

Weekend and other programming:

• The Ed Rollins Show with Ed Rollins.
• 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 with Joe Mathieu
• FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
• ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
• Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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