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[SEUC-OCD]

... I would advise against any long term commitments with Sirius...they may not be around too long.

For a minute there, I thought everyone was leaning towards Sirius.  With dependability, Howard Stern, and all of the sports broadcasts, it sounded like XM didn't have much to offer.  Sirius can always add more music.

I hope you're right, because I am going with XM because it comes on my GPS.  I'd love to listen to a football game on a ride!  If I could only bring pretzles and beer!  

[SE_ULTRA]

Siruis is hoping that everyone in leaning towards Sirius. Over the next 5 years they will be paying Howard 500 million dollars and the new CEO (who use to be my CEO) Mel Karmazin 6.25 million...pre-bonus. Add to that that Mels 30 million common shares. At $13.00 per month, Sirius would need to have 650,000 new subscribers to cover these two SALARIES alone, not counting bounuses. Considering that at current Sirius is running at a 965% loss (spending $10.65 for every $1.00 of revenue) it seems like a tough battle.

By the way, with all the talk of satellite radio, don't discount terrestrial radio...with HD Radio, streaming, POD Casting, new technology and programming being implimented everyday...it should not be discounted. Terrestrial radio still has a charm and a soul...kinda like a Harley.

SE_ULTRA
umm..err.... CBS RADIO

[Twolanerider]

Ultra, I agree.  Local radio is ok; locally.  It gets played at home.  But on road it's just not a great tool.  At Interstate speeds you can't drive that long without having to find a new channel.  Get out of the east where things start to spread out a bit and you can drive a long time and never find a clear channel; or at least one that stays clear for longer than a few minutes.  Once you do you can only hope it's a format you're interested in.  Almost makes you wish for the days of good huge AM stations.

XM, however, just gets turned on.  That's at, all over.  Don't even have to change CDs anymore.

[SE_ULTRA]

 [smiley=2vrolijk_20.gif] for the huge AM's!

~SE_ULTRA
Technical Ops.
CBS Radio
(I have 2 AM's, 1 is 50kw)

[Ceej]

I worked in radio for years before buying a truck and hitting the big road, I paid for XM for 5 years and pay about 8$ a monthe and then have a second radio, their MyFi which is a portable unit I use on the bikes and in my 68 Camaro. I own a bunch of Sirius stock and think it will do fine in the long run - probably a merger coming. XM has a much deeper music library as a few of their major stockholders own many music catalogs, Sirius can get repetative in the music dept. I don't think MLB is leaving XM anytime soon, that is a big deal for both of them, Nascar is going to Sirius in 07 but Nascar has always been a money grubbing entity, I use to run them on a station a few years ago before they became real big then they came to us with their hands out for a steep steep fee increase, we told them to take a hike and they gave up a huge coverage area we had on a 100,000 watt FM for a few crappy lo power AM's. They choose a few dollars over a few thousand of their fans. HD radio on FM could lead to more options and better content but I am already hearing rumblings that some companies are looking at charging to recieve their HD signals, the technology is there, it would be like a mini XM deal, local, just a few stations. Clear channel owns a boatload of stations across the country and they will lead the way, of course they also own a boatload of XM stock [smiley=nixweiss.gif]