The Redding News Review is reporting an apparent split between Radio One and XM Satellite Radio. According to the report, the two companies will end their more than six-year relationship next week citing advertising differences.

According to Lee Michaels, national program director for Syndication One News/Talk and XM’s black-oriented talk Channel 169 The Power, Radio One had not made a profit on advertising for the joint venture with XM. The satellite radio companies focus has been on selling subscriptions and not helping the black radio pioneer to sell advertising.

In one shocking development, the controversial shows featuring Al “Captain African America” Sharpton will remain with XM. This is the same show that made headlines by fanning the flames of the Imus comments about Rutgers womans hoop squad. The irony in it all is at one point, Sharpton basically bit the hand that fed him and protested XM’s handling of Opie and Anthony and their parody about raping Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He will now work outside the Radio One umbrella and work directly with XM.

Radio One has been struggling forced to sell several stations blaming “a challenging radio industry environment,” for its 40.2 percent decline in third-quarter earnings. YIKES.

Is it me or does no one really care about XM or satellite radio. Even when I was in school in the much secluded northern pan handle of West Virginia, nearly 100 miles from any decent urban formatted station, never ONCE did it cross my mind to shell out dough to XM to listen to some good music. And now with iPods and iTunes which we didn’t have, its even more apparent this is doomed as a failed and expensive experiment. Speaking of West Virginia…what happened Oklahoma? Ha Ha Ha.