[TommyDale]

So how much did Howard Stern lose? LOL!

[VegasCowboy]

XM and Opie and Anthony are better anyway.

See ya Howie.

[ivyleaguebrat]

Would the Feds allow a merger?

[Vermonter]

...after the satcaster cut its year-end subscriber forecast by 200,000 to 6.1 million.

I was probably one of the 200,000. My car came with the Sirius radio and a free year's service. Never used it. Despite repeated phone calls, emails and letters from them, I won't be renewing

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Stern and Karmazin will raid the company for whatever money it has left before chapter 11, and leave shareholders holding the bag.

[Larry Lucido]

This could be Sirius, but not Hughes.

[Azzurri]

Sounds like the Quadrasonic versus 8-Track battle from the 1970s. Not quite the same, as they were 2 different technologies, but you know what I mean. Okay, I'm wrong, but I'm going to hit "Post" anyway.

[Plutarch]

Sirius is losing ground to XM in the race to have new car manufacturers insert its receivers in new cars.

Ultimately, sustained business must originate from receivers in new cars, as it is passive. If new cars came with no radios at all, and you had to go aftermarket to install one, only a minority of people might go out and get radio's installed.

Right now, Sirius = Stern, and I'll bet a lot of new car makers don't want baggage like that.

[VeniVidiVici]

I like Sirius. Good selection but it didn't take long to notice they looped their music way too often.

All they had to do was change up their selection way more often on my favorite channels and I'd still be there.

[Paleo Conservative]

This is series.

[hodaka]

As a traveling sales rep, I love my Sirius radio. I travel some pretty rural areas where at times when you could not pick up anything except some color gospel station. I like to listen to talk radio, but I got tired that my only choices it seemed on regular radio was Rush at noon with Sean following. The only time I listen to regular radio is when I am in a market that plays Neal Boortz.

[Chode]

XM came with the car...

they have an all Traditional/Clasic Christmas Carrol program on 107 and 108 is all "Grandma was run over by a reindeer" kind of songs.

[ArmstedFragg]

This is one of those rare reversals of the old BetaMax versus VHS issue. In this case, the superior technology... XM's stationary satellites and more extensive repeater network... is apparently winning.

Nobody's forced to use satellites to listen to radio, and the free broadcasting competition will keep prices down, so having just one supplier probably won't make much difference.

[taxed2death]

just a tidbit of info here...I read an article in Wired magazine and although I forget WHICH of the two satelite radio stations it was, actually went out of their way to HIRE the effing moron who KILLED FM radio programming (in the late 70's) to do the programming on satelite radio.
Go figure.