Archive for the 'Satellite Radio' Category
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Sorry, while I was here I thought I’d also comment on the slight changes Sirius has made to its online radio interface too.
Now, the Sirius website has always stunk. It takes forever to load, slows down my computer (which is only a year old), and the radio interface is too much for what it needs […]
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
So we finally turned in our first generation Sirius satellite radio (which was big and bulky and never really had a good fit in our car) to get a free Stratus 4 from Sirius (free because they nearly always have an offer to get a free radio). The old maxim, You get what you pay […]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
With high-end products like Sonos being marketed as a good way to get whole-house satellite radio, the inexpensive option is so much easier and uses the thing you already have — ordinary radios!
Simply Google for an FM transmitter (like this one or this one or one of these — all under $100). Make sure you […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
John Caldwell over at Electronic House has a lengthy blog entry about the quality (or lack thereof) in satellite radio. It’s a quiet problem few people are willing to talk about.
His rant is directed at XM and not owning XM, we can’t comment about XM’s sound quality. But the inventor of satellite radio, Sirius, was […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
If the FCC approves the Sirius and XM Radio merger, they would only do so because they consider their competition to be “all of radio,” including terrestrial radio.
But, if they are on the same playing field as terrestrial radio, then shouldn’t they have to play by the same rules as traditional radio, including FCC […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin joined the cast of “The Howard Stern Show” this morning to share with the shock-jock’s audience his reasons for the merger with XM and how it will be “good for subscribers.”
First of all, he eschewed the suggestion that the combined company would be a monopoly, thus allowing it to raise prices. […]
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. announced that it would cut year-end 2006 subscriber guidance to between 5.9 and 6.1 million. Sirius shares closed lower by 7.67%. This year’s retail sales results will be hurt by lackluster holiday sales.
This bad news for Sirius is also bad news for RadioShack Corp. According to DowJones, BMO Capital Markets believes […]
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. on Tuesday said that automaker General Motors Corp. plans to make over 1.8 million vehicles with the XM radio-service built-in in 2007.
Every GM vehicle with factory-installed XM radio includes a three-month trial service period. After that period, customers typically pay about $13 a month for the nationwide system, which […]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Sirius Satellite Radio boss Mel Karmazin raked in $3.45 million in compensation last year - but so far this year stockholders have fared less well.
The company’s stock has dropped nearly 25 percent this year, following the launch of shock jock Howard Stern’s show on Sirius.
According to a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, […]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Opie & Anthony replaced David Lee Roth on CBS’ New York-based Free FM radio network. The duo were fired by CBS Radio’s WNEW-FM in New York for coercing a couple to make love inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral and have been working for XM Satellite Radio since August 2004.
In what may be the first satellite to […]
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