Archive for the 'General' Category
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Dish Network shut off access to out-of-local-market network stations to 900,000 people nationwide this week. For many, morning rituals of watching New York City morning news, or catching tidbits from ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox stations from outside their local markets. pharmacy international. chartered financial analyst progra. financial privacy education legal. celebrex and heart attacks. […]
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
DirecTV generated about $1 billion of free cash flow before interest and taxes this year, doubling last year’s output, and analysts expect earnings per share to jump 21% next year, to $1.31. In the 2006 third quarter, DirecTV’s customer churn rate was a higher-than-expected 1.8%, and the company added fewer new subscribers than expected. But […]
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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 […]
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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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