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Hyundai customers say 'no' to Stern?
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| 05/13/05
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Posted on 05/13/2005 2:28:55 PM PDT by Responsibility1st
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Lord knows you couldn't pay me enough to listen to Stern. No way would I pay for this "privilege".
To: Responsibility1st
But don't they have 99 other channels?
To: Responsibility1st
Ouch, that has got to hurt. Pay millions for someone who then
loses you extremely important business. If this is true for one car maker, it will be true for them all. And it is going into cars as OEM that will make or break satellite radio.
I just love to see how clueless these media people are.
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posted on
05/13/2005 2:34:38 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: Responsibility1st
Since about 99% of the time I drive my auto is in one metro area with literally hundreds of radio stations to choose from, why in the world would I want to pay for satellite radio when I have all the radio programming I want for free.
To: Responsibility1st
All those uptight Hyundai owners will be in for quite a thrill when they turn on their good Christian, family-oriented XM and get to hear Jim Norton talking about prostitutes taking dumps on his chest.
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posted on
05/13/2005 2:35:45 PM PDT
by
Dont Mention the War
(Proud Member of the WPPFF Death Cult - We're coming after YOU next!)
To: proxy_user
But don't they have 99 other channels?
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Acutally, they have 120. But the "selling point" for Sirius is the fact they have Howard Stern.
Big whoop.
If Sirius wants to be proud of the millions they are paying Stern, they they will not have my business.
To: proxy_user
Exactly. I thought the point of Sirius is that you could change the channel.
That's like dumping my internet connection because there's porn on it (or so I hear).
To: Dont Mention the War
All those uptight Hyundai owners will be in for quite a thrill when they turn on their good Christian, family-oriented XM and get to hear Jim Norton talking about prostitutes taking dumps on his chest.
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posted on
05/13/2005 2:38:55 PM PDT
by
itsamelman
(“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
To: Responsibility1st
I'm not sure I fully believe this story. Stern's listeners regularly get through on CNN with phony phone calls. I think they have an axe to grind.
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To: Wild Bill 10
To: Wild Bill 10
When Jackie left, the show took a huge nosedive. The show showed it's 1st real decline when Billy West left. When he divorced his wife was the last straw for me. He became what he used to rail on.
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posted on
05/13/2005 3:04:05 PM PDT
by
SengirV
To: proxy_user
But they are afraid they might have to listen to Laura Bush's stand-up routines on the others channels.
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posted on
05/13/2005 3:05:03 PM PDT
by
sine_nomine
(Protect the weakest of the weak - the unborn babies.)
To: Responsibility1st
The first time I saw a promotion for Sirius they had hired a bunch of local strippers to dance on a small stage outside a concert and hand out t-shirts.
They weren't actually striping, but darn near. They also brought along "annoying-strip-club-announcer-guy" to MC with his standard sex industry commentary
I'd sat Stern fits right in with their company philosophy. I bet it's costing them too.
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posted on
05/13/2005 3:05:12 PM PDT
by
Gator101
To: Dont Mention the War
To: Responsibility1st
I have Sirius, and they have Fox News, plus several other news sources of interest sometimes (BBC, Cspan, etc.)
For music, there is much more than we have in big market lost angeles metro.
A great blues channel, five jazz channels, and too many rock variations.
Warning. Sirius business methods are weak. Their billing system is weak.
For that reason, I took a six month bite.
I won't be listening to H. Stern. I don't understand what is entertaining about his gig.
To: Responsibility1st
I guess they were going to FORCE people to pay the extra monthly fee for Howard Stern if they went with sirus. I mean come om this can't be sirius!!!
To: Larry Lucido
Whoa Whoa Whoa
There's porn on The Internet? When did this happen?
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posted on
05/13/2005 3:37:06 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Responsibility1st
...you know, if Sirius wanted those customers back, they could sign up El Rushbo...
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posted on
05/13/2005 4:54:01 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: Responsibility1st
Bad decision. EVERYONE I know that has (or had - including me) XM is switching or has switched to Sirius. Stern had nothing to do with my decision. Sirius is just a far superior product for the average listener or the talk radio nut. As far as Stern goes, I liked him for about a month, but after that his material just repeated over and over again. I will never listen to him on Sirius. On the other hand, O&A were pretty good. I subscribed to them for about 3 months before I got rid of XM altogether.
Hyundai must have worded their survey in such a way that would make it seem as though Stern had something to do with people not wanting Sirius.
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posted on
05/13/2005 5:02:54 PM PDT
by
America_Right
("Conservative" and "Politician" are mutually exclusive terms.)
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