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Please stand by. Good morning and welcome to Sirius XM Second Quarter 2016 Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. A question-and-answer session will be conducted following the presentation. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Hooper Stevens, Vice President, Investor Relations and Finance. Mr. Stevens, please go ahead. Hooper Stevens - Vice President, Investor Relations & Finance, Sirius XM Holdings Inc: Thank you and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Sirius XM's second quarter earnings conference call. Today, Jim Meyer, our Chief Executive Officer, will be joined by David Frear, our Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. At the conclusion of our prepared remarks, management will be glad to take your questions. Scott Greenstein, our President and Chief Content Officer, will also be available for the Q&A portion of the call. First, I would like to remind everyone that certain statements made during the call might be forward-looking statements as the term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These and all forward-looking statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations and necessarily depend upon assumptions, data, or methods that may be incorrect or imprecise. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For more information about those risks and uncertainties, please view Sirius XM's SEC filings. We advise listeners not to rely unduly on forward-looking statements and disclaim any intent or obligation to update them. As we begin, I would like to advise our listeners that today's results will include discussions about both actual results and adjusted results. All discussions of adjusted operating results exclude the effects of stock-based compensation. I will now hand the call over to Jim Meyer. James E. Meyer - Chief Executive Officer & Director: Good morning. Sirius XM had an excellent second quarter that once again highlights broad demand for our easy-to-use well-priced content-rich service. We added 580,000 total net new subscribers. So far this year, we have already increased our subscriber base by more than 1 million new subscribers. Let me repeat that. We have added more than 1 million subscribers so far this year or close to 6,000 per day. We ended the quarter with 30.6 million total subscribers, a figure that has never been higher. In fact, I think you will find that we added more paid subscribers in the United States during the second quarter than any other public media company. Our stable, self-paid churn and new car conversion coupled with a higher ARPU are metrics of an extremely healthy business. The company grew on all fronts during the second quarter and achieved record high revenues, adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow. Consequently, we are increasing our full year guidance for all of these metrics and increasing guidance for net subscriber growth as well. While auto sales seem to have plateaued in the second quarter, they remain at very healthy levels with a 17.1 million SAAR that was exactly in line with last year's second quarter. Sales can't keep increasing forever, but honestly, it's hard to complain about a 17 million SAAR. So while world news seems to get much more tumultuous every week, we generally see good economic conditions persisting for our business. SiriusXM is well-positioned to continue our success and achieve all of our increased 2016 operating and financial targets. SiriusXM's relationships with OEMs have never been stronger. In fact, earlier this month, Fiat Chrysler named SiriusXM its Supplier of the Year among all electrical and interior suppliers, which is a very big category. We are very proud to receive this award. Our penetration rate during the second quarter was about 73%, up from 72% in the second quarter of last year. We expect to be in about three-quarters of all new cars sold in the U.S. over the long run. But of course this can fluctuate with mix from one quarter to the next. Our enabled fleet continues to grow, hitting 88 million at the end of the second quarter. Over time, our enabled fleet should reach 180 million vehicles, which means more and more of those satellite-equipped radios will be turning over in the used car market. We believe about 29% of the used cars sold in the first half of this year were equipped with a factory installed satellite radio, up from 26% in the first half of last year. Used car penetration will increase each year as the fleet turns over, approaching our new car penetration rate over the long term. We are targeting almost 3 million self-pay gross add additions from used cars this year alone. And this will keep growing for years to come. To address this opportunity, as you know we are building a robust infrastructure to offer more trials to used car buyers and convert those trialers into paying customers. More than 16,000 franchise dealers now offer trials on all used cars sold with satellite radio. We are also increasing our reach into independent dealers, where we now have more than 6,000 reporting relationships. We continue to experiment in many other channels to discover the optimal way to reach all used car buyers, not just the ones buying through traditional dealerships. Behind the scenes at our company there is truly a frenzy of activity, as we seek to capitalize on this huge and growing opportunity. Our Service Lane Program works and keeps getting bigger, now at almost 11,000 dealerships, which perform about 50 million service transactions per year. We are also working to roll out similar programs to other aftermarket service and repair shops. As I told you last quarter, we are collaborating with insurance companies and auto finance companies to offer trials to used car buyers as well. This is a particularly helpful way of reaching private car buyers who bypass dealerships. We are now live with two large insurance companies and are in talks with more. And we are working with banks and credit unions to make similar offers to used car buyers. Adding trialers at all of these locations is more complex than just doing a handshake deal. There is a tremendous amount of IT work behind the scene to seamlessly absorb so much data. We're investing heavily in this, and we're getting better at it all the time. All of these efforts in the used car market help us constantly improve and refine our database of vehicle owners, which is truly a unique asset that allows us to reach more and more car owners every year. While used cars will continue providing growth for years to come, we're also busy investing in our next-generation platform, SiriusXM17, or as we move more towards launch, 360 L, which is short for 360-degree listening. 360 L is proceeding ahead and gaining traction with OEMs. I'm very pleased at the progress we are making building and deploying this platform. 360 L breaks down the big barrier we live with today as a one-way broadcaster by integrating satellite radio with two-way cellular connectivity. It lets us offer non-linear content to our subscribers, such as customized music playlists, on demand content and personalized recommendations based on the tastes of our individual subscribers. So let me remind you, we will never make the SiriusXM interface difficult to use, even as we add additional features and functionality. 360 also vastly improves at a lower cost our ability to manage customer relationship and billing and our ability to market to our subscribers and trialers in a personalized way. Much of this can even be conducted directly on the screen of the car. In short, 360 L helps us offer more features to our subscribers, better understand their behavior, and further remove friction in our relationship with them. We now have several demonstration cars (9:08) on the road nationwide with 360 L technology. And we are learning from real-world testing about what works and what doesn't work in this new environment. OEMs are rightfully private about their deployment plans here for competitive reasons. But I look forward to giving you more information about timing over the next year. As the name implies, 360 L also means much tighter integration with our apps and other means of assessing our service outside of the car. Preferences will follow our subscribers seamlessly as they move between the car and other listening locations like mobile and the home. We are well along implementing a plan to use technology to improve every aspect of our business and all the processes we use to touch our subscribers and potential subscribers. We are also working hard on how the Connected Vehicle present us dramatically expanded sources of data, and we're building the analytical tools with which to best exploit this data. The growth in vehicle connectivity presents an opportunity to grow our Connected Vehicle service business substantially. We are extremely hard at work here to help the OEMs to deliver new services. As I said in previous calls, we are going to continue expanding our footprint and CV services. I'm pleased to announce today that in June, SiriusXM executed a far-reaching agreement with Fiat Chrysler to develop end-to-end vehicle services for FCA's future vehicles. With FCA now joining Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Acura, Nissan, Infiniti and other OEMs, our Connected Vehicle technology platform is poised to cover a substantial part of the audio industry. This is not a business that ramps overnight, and the development cycle for cars is very long. This year, we are building an unmatched platform and infrastructure while becoming the system integrator of choice for OEMs. Next year, you will see many of these programs launch and a substantial increase in the number of vehicles available to consumers with our Connected Vehicle technology. Our next challenge in CV will be to innovate and drive the end product and user experience with the OEMs to help grow this business long term. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, all of this will be a march, not a sprint. But it's important to note this business, just like satellite radio, will scale very nicely. Success with Connected Vehicle service not only promises new revenue and profit opportunities, but it importantly puts us in a great position to learn early as entertainment and infotainment technology transition into vehicle over the next decade. You can see we are investing in the future. But let's not forget why our subscribers pay us. We are easy to use and have great content. That is why we have more than 30 million subscribers, so thousand more subscribing every day. Our amazing variety of content is why people and families pay for radio, and we are always adding more content that we know our fans nationwide will appreciate including Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Radio and the soon-to-be-launched Garth Brook's channel, which bring together all his music in one place on radio for the first time. Both artists are deeply involved in their channels, curating the music and more. Kenny launched his channel with an intimate underground show at the Jersey Shore. Garth just played Yankee Stadium where his support for the channel could not be missed. We also broadcast special events and moments that cannot be found on regular radio or offered by other streaming audio competitors. For instance, we held a special Town Hall with the cast and creative team behind the award winning musical, HAMILTON, hosted by Anderson Cooper from the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theatre. We produced a Prince Tribute Channel that we extended after hearing so much positive listener response, and we carry performances and interviews from Coachella, a popular music festival. We are in the middle of our in-depth coverage of the political conventions. We had live coverage across half a dozen channels from the Republican Convention in Cleveland last week, and our team of producers and hosts are now very busy in Philadelphia this week for the Democratic Convention. Live sports and sports talk are invaluable in attracting and maintaining subscribers. In just the recent three months, we've carried the Masters, all of March Madness and the Final Four, Major League Baseball and NBA games where every game including the NBA Finals, the NFL Draft, golf's U.S. Open, the Kentucky Derby and several new shows on our PGA TOUR Radio channel. SiriusXM also launched a daily show about the growing world of Esports. As we have mentioned a few times this year, it is important to note that most of our key content arrangements have now been extended on fixed economic terms through the end of the decade. We have built an unmatched content lineup and you can be sure we will invest to maintain that leadership. So, with all these investments in our business and new technology and platforms, and new and renewed content, what's left? Well, we ask ourselves every day, what can we do better? What do we need to invest in or what could we buy? We will keep looking. But clearly, we can also afford to continue returning capital to our shareholders. The remarkable business model of SiriusXM provides for the growth I've talked about on today's call and the current generation of cash flow. It's really the best of both worlds. Investors love growth and so do I. But we're also generating massive cash flows today and this gives us a unique opportunity to steer our company for the long road by investing in our business while still allowing us to reward our shareholders with a sizeable buyback program. In the first half of the year, we've put about $1 billion in the hands of our shareholders by repurchasing approximately 261 million shares from the public markets. Our board determines the appropriate course of action here. But I can tell you that we expect to have plenty of capacity to continue returning capital at similar levels for years to come. We go into the back half of 2016 with great momentum. First half results that we are proud of and increased financial and subscriber guidance for the full year. We've got a great team focused on execution that, once again, delivered strong operating results and a company that couldn't be more excited to be building such a valuable, unique and useful platform for consumers and OEMs alike. With that, let me turn it over to David.