Posted on 01/27/2006 5:04:53 PM PST by Kaslin
You're not taking into account costs other than Stern's salary. Sirius may need to earn $1.8B in order to net $670M.
That's 420 million if you have no expenses. Sirius probably makes a quarter of that in profit.
XM has America Right and Fox News. You have Laura Ingram, Rusty Humphries, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and a few others. that's not peanuts.
You listen to Stern? that goes a long way to explaining why you are so deadmented! ;-)
There might be a good reason for pay radio, but I haven't found one good enough for me yet.
My scan button finds free radio pretty easily. Cross country it's pretty easy to pick up Rush, Hannity, local talk guys, and music is way to easy to get.
Mostly, though, I travel no more than an hour in either direction from home.
Why pay for radio when I know all the free channels?
Fascinating. I wonder if Sirius will reach escape velocity from Stern's gravity well?
I've been listening to Stern for the last couple of weeks. The shows not bad. I realize that many here don't like him and to that I say to each his own. He makes my morning drive go quickly and it is better than what I was listening to before I got Sirius ( Bob and Tom ). A little off topic but I have to say that the one to listen to is Bubba in the afternoon. Man he is coarse but funny.
I have heard that Bubba is funny as well,thanks
I guess you don't listen to Opie and Anthony on XM? They're just as bad! Stern's show sux. I think it'll be a flop, but Sirius will cover it up.
Well, Howard already bankrupted them morally as far as I'm concerned.
You probably drive in the right part(s) of the country -- and your one-hour radius may mean you don't drive long distances in rural areas.
In the last five years, I've had three clients whose "problems" required me to drive 250+ miles (each way) from the metro Southeast to rural parts of the Southeast twice or more a month for over a year at a time. I drive because anything under four to five hours is often quicker than flying to small airports these days -- considering my drive to the airport, parking, unpredictible security lines, flight delays, luggage waits, rental car waits, etc. I can also drive on my schedule, not the airlines' schedule.
I also have a son in college in northern Virginia, almost 600 miles away, and make that drive a few times a year (back to school, the school's formal family weekend in the fall, a family basketball weekend in February, end of year, etc.).
In these cases, there are stretches of almost 100 miles where I can't get talk radio, news, or sports. The trip to Virginia? Good radio less than 150 of the 600 miles. Even for good music, I have to fiddle with the radio every twenty-five miles or so.
With XM, I set it on Fox News, conservative talk, 24-hour MLB, ACC sports, clean humor, BBC news, the Discovery Channel (in the old days), and can drive the entire trip with no static, better-than-CD-quality sound (my XM is built into the radio), and without searching for channels.
From my driving experience in west Texas and parts of Arizona and New Mexico, I had the same problem finding and keeping stations.
I also have a 45-minute to one hour commute each day and, among other things, XM has a 24-hour traffic and weather station for my city.
So, for some people, it's worth it -- I spend more time listening to XM than watching TV, and it's a lot cheaper than cable TV.
I prefer the Jim Breur Show (The guy from SNL who did Joe Pesci). It's on the same time Bubba is.
The show's been significantly better, in my view, if you're a fan of Stern's program, since the move.
Almost no celebrity interviews, strippers, "anal ring toss," or throwing bologna at the backsides of the unbelievably foolish women who participated in such nonsense for a plug, or something. There have been hints of this stuff, but probably less than 5% of the time.
I always preferred the first hour or two of the show, and the last hour, with the news, to the middle couple of hours with all of that nonsense. Celebrity interviews were always hit-and-miss, and the sex stuff was just useless. The vibe of the people on the program just talking about their lives & interests has been the focal point, and just about every day, the show's been about 5 hours long. The guests have been good as well.
As a side note, I love all the snide comments on this board about Stern from people who gleefully gush about getting XM instead, and especially since Fox News is now with them. I guess they missed the heavy rotation XM commercials with Snoop Dogg & Ellen DeGeneres, or the inconvenient presence of Opie & Anthony on XM...yeah, the guys who set up the contest that culminated in a couple of geniuses having sex inside St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Sirius bad (apparently solely because of Stern), XM good (Snoop who?). I have to laugh.
We really like Jim Breur as well.
you havent missed a thing...
heyyyyya robin...ahhhhha how about we bring a stripper and hhhhh ask her some questions and get her to undress?.
OH HOWARD!
I used to be a stern fanatic...but he is old news...the show lost its gold when billy west took off, and jumped the shark when he lost jackie..
the real suckers are the dolts at RUsirius?
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