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  1. relmor2003 is offline
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    05-14-2009, 11:44 AM #21
    Quote Originally Posted by stkdn View Post
    Getting closer to the .34 that i was talking about. Too bad I need the money. Economy is rough. Hard to support an item that no one really needs. Maybe the i phone deal(if it happens,one never knows) will peak an interest. Hope so.
    your investing on hope. why do you own this stock in the first place? Youve said 15 negative comments in a row now... just wondering why you bought it in the first place if you feel like you do...
    there are 10000 other stocks on the market...

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    05-14-2009, 01:17 PM #22

    slacker and pandora

    I heard many talk about 'free' internet radio as threat to SIRI, so I decided to take a quick look at pandora and slacker. They are both very cool, BUT.....they're not really free. You get free service if you want to put up with the ads, or you can pay $36 - $48 per year for no ads. And, of course, no live stuff, no sports, etc. I didn't spend more than a few mins on each site, so I'm sure I didn't get the full experience.....but, I don't see them as big threat to SIRI. Just say'n.

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    05-14-2009, 02:10 PM #23
    Quote Originally Posted by underway View Post
    I heard many talk about 'free' internet radio as threat to SIRI, so I decided to take a quick look at pandora and slacker. They are both very cool, BUT.....they're not really free. You get free service if you want to put up with the ads, or you can pay $36 - $48 per year for no ads. And, of course, no live stuff, no sports, etc. I didn't spend more than a few mins on each site, so I'm sure I didn't get the full experience.....but, I don't see them as big threat to SIRI. Just say'n.
    i can only listen to my recorded content on my XMP3 one time and if I have the option for the live feed from the sats then i can't even listen to the recorded content.

    If its not live, its stale....(good marketing slogan there?)

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    05-14-2009, 02:42 PM #24
    Quote Originally Posted by imromo24 View Post
    i can only listen to my recorded content on my XMP3 one time and if I have the option for the live feed from the sats then i can't even listen to the recorded content.

    If its not live, its stale....(good marketing slogan there?)
    Nice. Well we know SIRI needs some good marketing...don't hold it to yourself. Email SIRI mktg and let them know that their investors have ideas, and we are wondering where they are hiding theirs. Offer it up at no charge.

    Here is another: We don't dream live...We beam live. Commercial free!

    Looks like there is not much interest in selling below .37 this afternoon. I predict close at .3690. (This has absolutely no basis other than my gut feel)

  5. SiriusBuzz is offline
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    05-14-2009, 02:43 PM #25
    Quote Originally Posted by underway View Post
    I heard many talk about 'free' internet radio as threat to SIRI, so I decided to take a quick look at pandora and slacker. They are both very cool, BUT.....they're not really free. You get free service if you want to put up with the ads, or you can pay $36 - $48 per year for no ads. And, of course, no live stuff, no sports, etc. I didn't spend more than a few mins on each site, so I'm sure I didn't get the full experience.....but, I don't see them as big threat to SIRI. Just say'n.
    Keep in mind that millions of Slacker/Pandora iPhone and Blackberry apps have been downloaded. I agree that they don't have the same specialty programming but they have a great variety of music and live tracks that you would never hear anywhere else. I don't know why Sirius doesn't do more of that kind of stuff. Not to mention their ability to customize and their user interfaces are hands down better then Sirius XM.

    In my office (28 people) there are 2 Sirius subscribers 1 Pandora subscriber 1 rhapsody subscriber and 3 Slacker users (one of which pays). Its hard to say they are not a threat.
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    05-14-2009, 02:46 PM #26
    Hello everyone was away for awhile and looks like i didn't miss much except an interesting convo on yesterdays intraday thread..
    Sitting at .36 with a chance to close even or in the green,bids are raised a little bit and sellers still holding sway..

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    05-14-2009, 02:47 PM #27
    well, keep in mind, how difficult
    it is to have live radio, a hundred and some stations,
    nationwide, on demand, without drop in coverage,
    24/7, while still paying royalties for music, merging
    2 separate (and broke) satrad companies, getting fcc and usdoj
    approval for the merger (and resulting monopoly),
    dealing with the powerful NAB, dealing w/all the tech
    problems, and hartlieb & co., and the egos of on air
    multimillion dollar salaried dj egos, and serving 19
    Freakin Million paying Customers who got problems
    from A to Z, and dealin w/ergen, while having several million? shareholders
    own a stake in the company complaining about the stock
    price bein less than a kennedy half. It ain't easy. It's incredible, but
    understandable, that with 19 million subscribers - about 5% of the US population! - the business model is still not confirmed.

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    05-14-2009, 03:00 PM #28
    Quote Originally Posted by nisvan View Post
    well, keep in mind, how difficult
    it is to have live radio, a hundred and some stations,
    nationwide, on demand, without drop in coverage,
    24/7, while still paying royalties for music, merging
    2 separate (and broke) satrad companies, getting fcc and usdoj
    approval for the merger (and resulting monopoly),
    dealing with the powerful NAB, dealing w/all the tech
    problems, and hartlieb & co., and the egos of on air
    multimillion dollar salaried dj egos, and serving 19
    Freakin Million paying Customers who got problems
    from A to Z, and dealin w/ergen, while having several million? shareholders
    own a stake in the company complaining about the stock
    price bein less than a kennedy half. It ain't easy. It's incredible, but
    understandable, that with 19 million subscribers - about 5% of the US population! - the business model is still not confirmed.

    I think most are seeing the business model as viable. The question is the execution. And presto...enters Malone. If the execution is too far off base, Malone should be able to provide direction and then product value expansion with his relationships. SIRI is still an acquistion play, so someone is thinking there is a viable business model in there.

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    05-14-2009, 03:27 PM #29
    Quote Originally Posted by SiriusBuzz View Post
    Keep in mind that millions of Slacker/Pandora iPhone and Blackberry apps have been downloaded. I agree that they don't have the same specialty programming but they have a great variety of music and live tracks that you would never hear anywhere else. I don't know why Sirius doesn't do more of that kind of stuff. Not to mention their ability to customize and their user interfaces are hands down better then Sirius XM.

    In my office (28 people) there are 2 Sirius subscribers 1 Pandora subscriber 1 rhapsody subscriber and 3 Slacker users (one of which pays). Its hard to say they are not a threat.
    Right Charles...but I believe it is a different market. It overlaps in places, but there are significant differences, mainly the broad array of types of entertainment, including live sports, news, traffic, weather (especially XM Marine Weather system which is f'n awesome!), and, the ability to broadcast to moving cars anywhere, with the very familiar and easy to use in-dash radio. Internet to automobiles is not mature, and, to make it truly ubiquitous, like satrad signal, needs infrastructure, which won't be free, and is a long way off (wiMax for example). WiFi works, but not feasible for cars on the move, especially if outside urban areas. Use of cell technology works, but it isn't free either. So, my conclusion is internet radio isn't really a direct threat and won't be for a while and could be a very long while. IMHO, of course!

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    05-14-2009, 03:37 PM #30
    That broad array of entertainment doesn't appeal to everyone. There are people who actually just listen to Sirius XM for the music so, for those people they are like services.

    Then there are people like me who commute for only 20 minutes but spend 8 hours per day with internet access. Lets not forget that you can stream slacker over 3g to an iPhone where I live (around boston) and get better quality streaming then you currently receive from satrad (I understand that people in more rural area cant do that YET). If that were not enough, slacker has now partnered with Sony and they are in their new bravia tv's and the new sony X-series Walkman.

    For a bunch of companies that aren't a threat they sure are growing faster then Sirius XM right now. When do we start to worry? 1 million slacker apps were downloaded in a couple of months... all while Sirius XM reported a 400k loss in subscribers.

    Disclosure: I am listening to Sirius right now. That doesn't mean that I will ignore the facts ;-)
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