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| From | "Bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca> |
| Subject | Re: Interview w/ FCC Chair, Michael Powell |
| Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:15:29 -0400 |
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Satellite is to Terrestrial Radio, what FM was to AM, and what Cable is to
Broadcast TV...you will NEVER go back...
bob
...and Internet Radio, once it's portable, will rule them all...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Wright" <jaw@apk.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: Interview w/ FCC Chair, Michael Powell
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, zoogang wrote:
>
> > It'll be interesting to see what happens when Stern goes to satellite.
It'll
> > be even more interesting to see where Sirius is in terms of subscribers
when
> > he rolls out; right now, Sirius is at around 700,000 or so paying
customers,
> > and XM is over two million. It remains to be seen whether Stern can sell
> > enough boxes to raise Sirius to real contender status in the satellite
radio wars.
> >
> I read somewhere that Sirius claims to need to add a million subscribers
> to break even on Stern's contract. Stern has an estimated 10MM listeners
> now, so if they can get 10% of his audience to subscribe. . .
>
> I'm about to take the plunge on satellite radio myself, and though I'm not
> a Stern listener, the fact that he's going to be on Sirius assures me that
> Sirius isn't going to go kablooey in six months. Before the Stern
> signing, I was uncertain about their future as (as Zoogang notes above)
> they've got a much smaller subscriber base than XM.
>
> Jeff Wright *** jaw@apk.net
>
>
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