“Best Of” Programming Debuts On Sirius XM
Now for the first time, you can add XM channels to your SIRIUS subscription. Add “The Best of XM” on SIRIUS and get Oprah & Friends, Opie & Anthony, NHL and NBA games, the 24/7 NHL Home Ice Channel, The PGA TOUR Network, college sports, and XM Public Radio. The Best Radio on Radio™ just got better.
Oprah & Friends Channel 195 – Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Dr. Oz and more help you live your best life on Oprah & Friends.
NBA Channels/College Sports Channels 211-220 – Hear regular season NBA Games, the Playoffs and the Finals. / Games from the top college conferences, including Pac-10, SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East and ACC.
NHL Home Ice Channel 208 – NHL Home Ice, the world’s first hockey channel, delivers a high energy mix of information and entertainment. The on-ice leader for fans across North America with up-to-the-second news and analysis.
The PGA Tour Network Channel 209 – All PGA TOUR events, the British Open and more, including golf news, tournament scores, and player highlights.
XM Public Radio Channel 196 – Insightful, entertaining, and provocative Public Radio programming, including award-winning and exclusive shows from Bob Edwards.
The Virius! Channel 197 – Beware…this is radio like you’ve never heard it before. Irreverent, uncensored, so good you won’t want to stop listening. Opie and Anthony in the morning and Ron and Fez in the afternoon. It’s addictive, it’s viral….it’s The VIRUS.
XM Site being updated at press time!
I think a lot of people are not going to be happy about not getting MLB on Sirius. Might help drive XM-side sales
Do you think ANYONE….let alone the market is going to notice this news today?
Once again…Siriusly BAD timing.
Still…yay!
Why is MLB not being included in the BEST OF programing? One would think with the play-offs starting tomorrow this most certainly would have been included!!
Here’s some disturbing news. I just called to add “best of XM” to my sirius subscription and was told that the service is NOT available for factory installed radios?? I can get it for my stiletto, but not in my car. That’s not good.
Brandon. Can you clear up that factory radio post. Thanks. Thought all radios would be able to catch the best of. Thanks again.
4 bucks. Great value. See lots of positives here. Let’s hope for a lot of subscription adds.
Oh and finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Mention of the merger on the website.
I doesn’t get installed in car radios? What the fuck, I was going to cancel my Sirius subscription and use the XM radio in my car with the best of package. If this is true, then I understand y the company is in the toilet.
So…. It looks like we get NBA games, but only the NHL channel, NO NHL GAMES!!! That is disappointing. I might have subscribed otherwise.
Looks like the stock price is flirting with the 50 cent range now. GREAT.
The BEST OF?
Hardly.
Where’s the FRIGGIN LOVE???
Where’s the FRIGGIN REFINANCING???
This has been the most hellish stock I’ve ever been in. First we WAITED almost 2 YEARS for the merger….and when we got it….NO POP.
NOW we are waiting for REFINANCING in the WORST CREDIT MARKET IN HISTORY!!!!!
Kill me now. Just kill me. 🙂
This is the first and only investment I ever made in the stock market and I’m down 80%. Should have just wiped my ass with that money.
.59 cents now and the market hasn’t even turned negative yet – screwed
I have never in my life experienced a stock like this. I could have had my Sirius money in ANY other stock in my list for the last 2 years and I would have QUADRUPLED it.
In ANY other stock that went down…they have gone up many times over giving me MANY MANY chances to double my money.
But in Sirius….for over 3 years now, it’s been a str8 line DOWN.
Even on the RARE pop during the MERGER madness days…it’d POP only for a FRACTION of a SECOND.
Remember when the DOJ approved and it POPPED a BUCK but when STR8 back down in the blink of an eye???
Then AFTER the MERGER….after the moment that was FINALLY going to bring some FRIGGIN RELIEF to us long suffering shareholders….the rug was pulled out from under us and we’ve fallen to practically 50 cents from over $2.
After the PAIN of that….JUST when it looked like there was HOPE again….this credit crisis from HELL happens and we are hanging on by our finger nails once more.
My friends….it doesn’t get any uglier than this. HOW MUCH MORE can we take? HOW can we POSSIBLY get out of this?
And if….IF a miracle happens and the bail out bill passes and the credit market improves AND we get a SWEET HEART of a refinancing deal….EVEN IF THAT perfect scenario happens….WILL WE GET ANY LOVE??? Or will the trend of DOWN ON BAD NEWS…..DOWN EVEN FURTHER ON GOOD NEWS trend continue for Sirius.
I really don’t know how much more of this I can take. I’ve thrown up my hands. At this point I am a LONG against my will….because I can’t sell now even if I wanted to. I’m locked in.
And NO MORE AVERAGING DOWN for me. I don’t care HOW friggin LOW we go from here. I am DONE averaging down. My position is my position. End of story.
EVERY time I’ve averaged down…we’ve gone lower. I’m not playing that game anymore.
Sometimes I wish it would just end. BK would be better than this. SOME finality so that I could move on. Not that I’m wishing for BK. But a buyout. SOMETHING. ANYTHING.
I am SO FRIGGIN SICK OF BEING IN LIMBO. First with the BULLSHIT 2 YEAR MERGER DELAY. Now with this refinancing deal.
I guess on the good side….we only have until FEBRUARY to wait. If We don’t get financing by then….game over. SOMETHING will have to happen. At least there is an end to this limbo crap in sight. Either they’ll get refinancing or not. Either the company will declare BK or not.
At least we’ll find out in less than 4 months.
But even that seems like an eternity.
I am CURSING myself for not getting out last November when I had the chance. I will NEVER EVER let myself get caught in a stock like this again. It’s only happened to me once…and thats enough. I guess thats the silver lining.
-Friggin Frustrated
Case in point. Suppose I took 20 grand( a fraction of what I lost in Sirius so far)….I could pick ANY stock in my “list” at random and EVEN in this CRAZY SCARY market…I would have made MORE in ONE FRIGGIN DAY than I’ve made in Sirius over the last 3 years.
Take ETFC. If I had put 20 grand in it yesterday…I would have made 3 grand in one day. Compared to the 10s of thousands I’ve lost in Sirius. I have not made one dime…one penny on Sirius in 3 years. I have just LOST LOST LOST.
The crazy thing is that even stocks that are losing even more money than Sirius I would have made TONS of money.
For instance. Lowly battery company VLNC. That same 20 grand would have made me 6 grand since YESTERDAY if I was in VLNC.
I mean…WTF is WRONG with this picture. We have 19 MILLION FRIGGIN subscribers.
Update: I called back to speak with tech support and was told that some factory installed vehicles will support “best of” programming and some won’t. I drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee and, for whatever reason, it’s not available.
Then I called Paul Blalock at IR – he told me that he was unaware of this problem, but that they are still working out some kinks for the official launch of “best of” on October 6th. He SAYS he’s going to get back to me on this issue.
I want to know how to add best of XM to my sirius everything lifetime subscription.
anyone else out there trying to do the same thing?
Hmmm … Anybody notice that the lifetime subscription plan is back under sirius everything for $499.99 – haven’t seen that for a while.
terrymr
All Sirius needs is 2 million lifetime subs and they have money to pay off the loans.
That would be cool
vaporgold
I know this is a HORRIBLE market to refinance debt in….but I only WISH Mel would at least make some sort of announcement to REASSURE stockholders that he has no intention of filing chapter 11.
It would help ease some anxiety in these uncertain times.
The silence is almost deafening.
If we cannot even get a dead-cat bounce, what does that tell you? Manipulation. Some entity is manipulating this stock via the CINN selling 100 shares at a time. What can we do about it?
Second Update:
Someone from Sirius called me back and offered me a free plug-n-play radio for my car so that I can have “best of” programming. I declined because I like my in-dash radio, but it’s encouraging that they at least tried. Apparently the service is not currently working with some older model OEMs. I have a 2005 Jeep and she said that they may be able to work out the bugs in the future, whatever that means. I will probably get the “best of” for my stiletto… gotta do my part.
Serious,
Question..
Aside from naked shorting, what else can be manipulation? If someone has shares to sell, why can’t they sell them and at any qty? If I put a buy order in for 10k shares, why do I care if there is someone offering up 100 or 1000 share increments? The only way this stock is going up is when a significant number of NEW buys get entered to eat up all the sellers. Also us that are long in at > 1$ are not likely sellers but those who are day trading this stock may be looking to lock in a 10-15% gain.. We now have to deal with this crowd as part of the penny stock bliss.
I do agree that there is a red zone defensive set of NAB funded linebackers ready to naked short like crazy once this stock gets near $1 but that talk has been beat to death.
Happy to hear about best of getting out a few days early. Curious what the #’s will be on that but new revenue is how it has to turn around.
They do have good customer sevice, my radio got stolen out of my car last year and they sent me another one for free, the only thing that sux is that the new one gets so much static, sometimes I have to turn it off.
Fucking incredible. Someone AGAIN successfully closed SIRI at a new low. It is happening every fucking day.
I wonder if it is goin to go to 25 cents a share, that way I can buy 8000 shares for 2k and lower my average cost to like 90 cents
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
57 FUCKING CENTS!!!!!
We are DOOMED!
What good can come of this now? I mean…EVEN IF….EVEN IF we get GREAT NEWS NOW….whats the best we can hope for???
A pop to $1.00????????
I feel like screaming. Some bozo on CNBC just announced proudly that the market RALLIED today….and all us Sirius Shareholders can do is bang our heads on the table.
I have OFFICIALLY given up. I am LONG the stock but not by CHOICE anymore. I am stuck.
But I can no longer muster ANY hope or positive feelings about the stock. NEVER in my life have I experienced a stock like this. I could throw a friggin dart at a stock chart and ANY stock would do better.
Sirius is BEYOND a bad stock. It is the WORST STOCK.
Even the dogs in my stock list have given me an out…popping MANY MANY times over the last 2 years. If I had my Sirius money in them instead, I would have doubled my money again and again.
I am serious…..ANY stock in my list would have made more for me this week…in this HORRIBLE market than Sirius has for me in 3 friggin years.
And it just keeps getting WORSE.
I OFFICIALLY believe a conspiracy is afoot now. The other day when Goldman downgraded the stock to 50 cents…people freaked….but then Citi comes out with a $3.75 price target.
HOW MANY PEOPLE fell for this and bought even more?
Luckily I didn’t. But I fell for it a few months ago when Goldman came out with a $1.00 price target and then Citi came out with an $8 price target.
I am TELLING you…Citi and Goldman are in CAHOOTS. It’s the oldest Grifters trick in the book.
They KNOW how much passion people have about the sirius product and stock. They’ve USED that passion for the last 3 years to MILK the shareholders for EVERYTHING all the way down.
I CURSE the day I ever bought this stock. I KICK myself for not getting out for a “slight” loss last year. I kick myself again for not getting out right before the merger announcement.
SOME FUCKING TRiUMPH this merger was.
Wouldn’t we have been better off without it?
Or better yet….WHY THE FUCK DID MEL HAVE TO CLOSE under such UGLY conditions???? I am now CONVINCED HE DIDN’T have to!!!
Does anyone REALLY buy his reason? I don’t. Think about it. If he didn’t RUSH to close the deal…he could have let it ride alittle longer. He could have waited until the credit environment got better.
I’m fucking pissed off.
We are in the 50 cent range NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF???
I know we’ve been at this price BEFORE…but thats when we were a stand alone company with only a few thousand subs.
We’ve FUCKING MERGED. We are a FUCKING MONOPOLY WITH NEARLY 20 MILLION FUCKING SUBS.
THIS MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE!!!!!
I hear u friggin, this is the only investment I have, I thought 3 years ago when I bought it that it would make more than the interest on a savings account instead I continued to dump my money into this pile of shit stock, now my 4 years of savings is wiped out. I guess I better try to find a higher paying job because I am in a monster hole.
The ONLY reason I am hoping for the Bail out plan is the HOPE that it would help Sirius refinance it’s debt.
Otherwise I want to see Wall Street and Goldman and all those crooks burn. I want to watch on tv as they jump out of high rises because they’ve lost everything.
I’d laugh. I want them to suffer.
Having said that, I blame MYSELF for breaking my own rules and averaging down as much as I did. I’ve never been this wrong with a stock before….and I just want it to be over. KILL the company or make an announcement. ANYTHING is better than this slow death spiral.
Friggin we all feel your pain. Im in the same boat. Down a fucking shitload of cash. I refuse to buy more even at these prices. If i ever recover from this stock Im done with the market. Its gambling plain and simple. No room for the little guys any more. I could cry on how much Im down. For MEl to not come out with a statement boggles my mind. I know one thing my 4 subs will be canceled if we get fucked.
Mostly I am pissed for the last 4 grand I sunk into Sirius at $1.
Alittle voice told me not to. Even tho it was only a FRACTION of the total amount I’ve sunk into Sirius, it was my last chunk of savings.
I could have made MORE with that 4 grand this week alone in this HORRIBLE market with practically ANY other stock…..than I have EVER made in Sirius….which is NOTHING.
I have not made ONE dime with Sirius in 3 years. I have only LOST.
Frigginregan:
I could not agree more with your comments above. I have taken a beating on this stock and was forced to sell 2 weeks ago.
The thing that is really interesting regarding the “ugly” financing deal that Mel said he was forced to take to get the deal done, is, if now we are to believe that Mel and his billionaire buddies are being thought to be the financial saviors if Sirius XM cannot get decent financing, then why didn’t these same guys come to the rescue at the time of the merger to put together financing? To think that Mel and his friends are now going to loan the company money is not realistic unless Mel did in fact have an ulterior motive for taking the “ugly” financing in the first place.
COS1000 in another post the other day made mention I beleive of a gag rule that has prevented Mel and the rest of the management team from talking openly regarding the merged company. Does anyone know any details to the validity of this statement and where it can be found on the Internet?
friggin you speak well for all of us. i’m down 50K and still believe in the product, i love it, but the stock is ass paper. good news might drive it down to 25 cents, I just hope they don’t so a reverse, (no benefit) and BK doesn’t seem possible with increasing revenue. If those 2 things don’t happen we might be good in 10 years :O
Hey Dave. In a strange way it’s comforting to know I am only one of THOUSANDS who have been burned by this stock.
But I am not giving up on the market. I am SERIOUS when I tell you that EVERY other stock in my list would have made me a SHITLOAD of money.
Not saying that every stock will double….but my instincts are good. And my research in the alternative fuel and stem cell sectors is extensive.
My mistake was that I let emotion get the best of me with Sirius. I bought it on hype and made EVERY mistake with it you can ever make in a stock.
I couldn’t even write it funnier if I tried. After making a killing in my first ever investment…I dumped it into Sirius when Howard Stern was signed. At first the stock took off. I should have sold then. But I decided to go surfing in Brazil.
I explored the Amazon and didn’t have access to a computer. 3 months later…..while away….the stock dropped.
And ever since I’ve been averaging down.
I was JUST about to get out last year when they announced the merger.
Lol….and we all know how THAT turned out.
All those months of hearing MERGER IMMINENT!….and it took nearly 2 years.
And then….the closing of the merger nightmare.
And then the price kept dropping.
Like I said, the last time I averaged down was a few weeks ago when it hit $1
But now…even if it drops to 25 cents I am not sinking ANOTHER dime into it.
Because my excitement at OH MY GOD WHAT A GREAT PRICE….has been replaced by a feeling of complete dread.
I only wish this sense of dread entered my head all those other times I averaged down.
Because now I just feel it’s going to go so low that Mel just files Chapter 11.
As Mel says….it SUCKS.
But its true. Thats how i feel now. And I am an OPTIMIST by nature. This stock KILLED that out of me.
Can I ask y’all a question? Remember last week when European Sat radio company WRSP got financing for its debt and shot up from .60 to $1.90…..
If that happens to Sirius and Sirius shoots up to almost $2…how many of you are going to sell and how many are going to take it as a sign of good things to come and KEEP holding?
Even tho I averaged down to a $2.49 break even target, I for one am SELLING if we get close to $2.
I’ll take the loss. But at least I’ll be out.
I am trying to psych myself up to stand by this sell conviction should this scenario happen….because I KNOW how many times before I thought about getting out and then some positive news came out and I HELD…..only to regret it later.
I’m just curious what everyone else is thinking about this.
I think I will sell a portion, maybe like 60% of my shares
i will sell some at $2.00 but not allot, if its starts going up, i think it will a steady climb
It needs to quadrouple to get at $2, I don’t see that happening any time soon. Which sucks because I can’t leave my money in this stock forever, eventually Im gonna need to use it for a house(if there is anything left)
Great…now the vultures are circling. Motley Fool just came out with an article calling for a 20 to 1 REVERSE stock split before it’s too late.
I really can’t take this anymore. I WANT OUT OF THIS FUCKING STOCK AND THE INSANITY THAT SURROUNDS IT.
I am so tired of this bullshit.
I swear….everyone is in a panic on tv about the economy….but to me thats a picnic compared to the emotional rollercoaster ride that is Sirius.
I’m SERIOUS. I have DOZENS of stocks right now in this market that I’d be making ALOT of money in if I had all my funds out of Sirius.
I’d be in HEAVEN in this market. The only pain I’m feeling or EVER felt in the market has come from ONE stock and ONE stock only….SIRIUS.
Like Mel said…it SUCKS.
By the way….WHERE THE FUCK IS MEL???????
We are one week away from the best of launch and he is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. Any other CEO would be out there talking up the news. The fact that he is SILENT only fills me with DREAD and FOREBODING.
IF he had anthing good to say…he’d be saying it. This doesn’t look good.
Seriously…how can a 20 to 1 reverse split help us?
We’d have a $12 stock that would INSTANTLY be SHORTED INTO OBLIVION….possibly all the way back down below a $1.
You think it seems hopeless now? Imagine THAT happening.
I will sell at $2 if they announce that they have only refinanced the Feb. Debt. If they announce they refi’ed the feb and May debt I will hold. They have 400 mill cash and a 100 mill credit line. Realistically they have the cash now. Wouldnt leave them with much cusion though
More rearranging of the deck chairs . . . only good news from this is that the pain for longs is almost over. Mel will be laughing all the way to the bank . . .
Maybe Hartlieb will share his pound of flesh but even a million-man-march ain’t helping this gog.
Sorry friggin…I’m right there with you, man. My wife tried to convice me to sell in the $1.40 range, what, a month ago? No honey…can’t go any lower from here. I bought more. And fucking whoosh, another $10K gone. Sickening. Tragedy.
I know we’re all thinkgin the same thing, but is it too much to ask to hear from the fucking CEO in these times?
I should be careful what I wish for though, because I just know the next communication we hear is going to be more converts.
i hear you Brad. But I say bring it on. I want to hear from Mel. i don’t care what he has to say…I just want to hear from him.
Because this slow death spiral and being kept in limbo is like Chinese water torture. ENOUGH already.
Either END this now….or come out and SAY something to rally the troops. To give us hope. BE A LEADER MEL.
Mel is looking more and more like our lame duck President. TOTALLY ineffectual.
At least the shareholders of Lehman got wiped out overnight. WHOOSH! DONE. OVER.
We Sirius shareholders have been slowly tortured by some sick masochist out of the movie “Hostel”.
Just stick the knife in and end our suffering already. Or come out and RALLY THE FRIGGIN TROOPS MEL!!!!
Your silence is killing us almost as much as the slow torturous descent of the stock price.
we need a live chat here to vent our frustrations. I refresh this page every 5 minutes. O God why did I buy this stock.
Sirius needs to start offering free satellite service ASAP – EVERYTHING or at least ALMOST EVERYTHING, Howard included, as part of a parallel ad-supported product. Get all those unactivated satellite receivers listening to satellite radio again. Seduce new terrestrial listeners to buy and install satellite radios since they no longer have to pay recurring premiums – unless THEY CHOOSE TO. It even makes for a safer gift, giving the recipient more flexibility if they decide they don’t want to make future payments.
Here’s the deal: The subscription service model will never resonate with the majority, at least when it comes to radio. At the same time, CONTRARY TO SIRIUS’ DEEPEST FEARS, the vast majority of current subscribers aren’t going to quit just because there is an ad-supported alternative. That means Sirius is WASTING the opportunity to reach and monetize hundreds of millions of potential listeners.
It’s time to embrace the people who will happily choose satellite radio over terrestrial radio so long as its free.
“We Sirius shareholders have been slowly tortured by some sick masochist out of the movie “Hostel”.”
As sick as I am about this situation, that actually made me laugh! Thanks Friggin.
Like many of you, my frustration level is overwhelming. I’d love to hear from Mel, but I just don’t think he has anything good to say right now. I think it would be healthy for me to avoid checking the pps for a while and just try and put it out of my mind. Not sure I can though, it’s like a disease.
same with me, im addicted to the message boards
Merger,
They should do the free side of satd for ad revenue. The only thing with keeping Stern on it for free is the profanity. I love Stern but with the way his show is now it would not suit well over a free service. The FCC would be all over them on it.
Friggin…the 4:16 post might be the funniest rant I have ever heard…still laughing and just called a buddy to read the post. I have lost most of my IRA so I feel your pain. 7500 shares left and I have no real hope left. I have the product in all of three of my vehicles, love the stiletto, could not imagine life without it. I own a mortagage servicing company and drive about 65000 miles a year. I know this product will be in my F250 years. This stock and company have the biggest divide I have ever seen. Thanks for the post…still chuckling!
I think the mere announcement that they plan on offering FREE satellite radio, Howard included, would cause this stock to double. At the ver least lets get those iphone/cellphone apps. Unfortunately for Sirius, the internet and wi-fi access in cars has dramatically diluted the value of their spectrum. Yes, they are a content provider, but in theory, anyone could be a content provider. So they better start leveraging their front-runner status as premier content provider, reaching as many listeners as they can, before outfits like Pandora also become content providers.