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Howard Stern - 2 years later

Howard stern wants you to believe that it was HE who got the subscription base up for Sirius. Too bad his numbers don't work. The growth of Sirius was due to Mel. He made deals with car manufacturers, aggressively pushed Sirius marketing, hired talent to man the stations, put together a better program, and used numbers in a way that made Sirius look big. If Stern was the reason then all the subscribers gained would have been lost by now as Stern gets about 900,000 listeners a day. That would mean 5 million who supposedly bought because of him would have dropped their service since they don't listen to him anymore. As for Sirius vs XM in the shakeout, it will be Sirius that survives. XMs programming is unbearable. If it was good, then hackers wouldn't have picked Sirius to hack into with iphones. They didn't do it with XM.

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/vid...?cm_ven=YAHOOV&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA#10423594
 
Um, in the story XM said it was already officially releasing something similar. And wouldn't this technology only provide the on-line content? I mean, they aren't hacking in an antenna port and sat reciever electronics, are they?

Didn't Mel hire Howard, and pay him handsomely for his 900,000 listeners (and thereby further dilute the stock)? Yep, that's some excellent management.

As far as the programming, it would appear that there are two distict making that call (subscribers maybe ???). I happen to be in a group that was first a Sirius, but now is an XM subscriber, and would like to remain one.
 
I like Sirius music better for the most part.......but I wish Sirius had a 40s channel, and also MLB and NHL. Howard's ok, but I miss having those sports to listen to, then again, with XM there is no NBA nor NFL nor College Football.

That is so stupid how a consumer can't get all the programming they want!
 
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