it will be next week, i can guarantee that.
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it will be next week, i can guarantee that.
Does anyone have the number for Investor Relations? I can't find it on the web site.
I'll give them a call and try to find the date of the CC.
Try 646-313-2000Quote:
Originally Posted by Keysmark
Number does not work.Quote:
Originally Posted by winagain35
That's the number that showed up on my called ID when they called me back to answer a question. Send investor relations an email and include your phone number - they usually call back. I'll try it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keysmark
Though I doubt they'll give any information prior to the press release.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...PKLQ15S6EI.DTL
Sirius and XM are flying high - for now
Ben Fong-Torres
Friday, February 20, 2009
So, XM and Sirius, the rival satellite radio services, finally merged. In recent months, the combined company, called Sirius XM, began making some dreaded and expected cutbacks in staff - including some prominent programmers and personalities (Wavy Gravy, to name just one) - and consolidating the two networks' program lineups.
What has it meant to subscribers, who've been paying about $13 a month for one or the other, and who have favorite channels, ranging from Howard Stern, the Grateful Dead and NFL Football on Sirius to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Major League Baseball (all year round) on XM? Do all the biggest names stay? Since both services had oldies and classic-rock stations, which ones survived? Is there now one program lineup that all subscribers get? What about pricing? When Mel Karmazin, chief executive officer of Sirius, was campaigning for governmental approval of the merger, he promised that subscribers would get more programming choices and lower prices. And what about Sirius XM's chances for survival? The company has been reported to be preparing for a possible filing for Chapter 11 protection from creditors.
Boy, as Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say, you do ask a lot of stupid questions!
I do. But I also have some answers, thanks to Scott Greenstein, chief content officer at Sirius XM.
First, Sirius and XM remain separate services, but their lineups have changed. For instance, Sirius' oldies stations have taken on XM's names ( '50s on 5, '60s on 6, etc.) and channel numbers - but with Sirius DJs supplanting many of XM's. The personalities include "Cousin Brucie" Morrow and two DJs formerly with KFRC: Bill Lee and Ron Parker. The '80s channel is now populated by all ex-MTV VJs. Meantime, Sirius subscribers who've always wondered about some of XM's more high-profile offerings can now find them on their radios: Dylan's wonderful "Theme Time Radio Hour," Petty's "Buried Treasure" show of personal faves; Willie Nelson's classic country channel; B.B. King's "Bluesville," and, for older-than-oldies music fans, '40s on 4.
XM subscribers won't automatically get Sirius' $500 million star, Stern (more on that, in a bit), but they now have access to such Sirius stations as Elvis Radio, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio, the Dead Channel, Eminem's Shade 45, "Little Steven" Van Zandt's Underground Garage, Jimmy Buffett's Radio Margaritaville, Siriusly Sinatra, Jamie Foxx's comedy channel and Metropolitan Opera Radio.
It's an amazing variety of excellent programming (and commercial-free, on the music channels), and, no doubt, a huge puzzle for Greenstein to work out. But on the phone, he sounded chipper about the changes he had to make, at the expense of lost jobs, bruised egos and disoriented listeners. The company surveyed subscribers, he said.
"There were certain genres that clearly rose to the top. There weren't many complaints at all."
And where there were, he restored channels or personalities it had cut, including a disco and old-school hip-hop channel on Sirius and DJ Meg Griffin, whose Sirius Disorder channel was eliminated, but who's now on XM's "The Loft," which is on both lineups.
But not everybody gets everything. XM people who want Stern need to upgrade with a Best of Sirius package, adding $4 a month to their subscription fee. They'll also get NFL games and talk shows, Martha Stewart, Playboy and NASCAR. For Sirius subscribers, a Best of XM set (same price) gets them Major League Baseball games and shows 24/7, plus Oprah Winfrey, Opie & Anthony, XM Public Radio, the NBA and more.
So, what about Karmazin's pledge of lower prices? Listeners who want only music or only news, talk and sports can find packages of 55 and 60 stations, respectively, for $9.99. And Sirius subscribers can opt for a group of 50 music or talk stations at $6.99.
As for Sirius XM's survival - it's steeped in $1 billion of debt that's coming due this year - at press time, it had made a deal with Liberty Media, owner of DirecTV, for a $530 million loan to allow it to avoid bankruptcy. At least for now. At a recent stockholders meeting, Karmazin said, "There's no question, this company needs to make money. This company has a lot going for it, but it has never made a dime."
Howard Stern, rock journalist: Paul McCartney is a master at self-marketing. For his latest CD, "Electric Arguments," in the guise of the Fireman (himself and a producer called Youth), he did interviews with such stellar rock journalists as Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern. Both Stern and sidekick Robin Quivers were openly excited by the ex-Beatle's visit. "I've got to just soak this in," Stern said when McCartney arrived. "That I'm sitting here with you." Said McCartney: "You've got to soak it in? What about me?" Stern, who lists the Beatles along with Mad magazine "and a little of the Three Stooges" as his primary influences, tried to help the giddy Quivers get a date with McCartney ("Show Paul your breasts," he advised), and asked him whether he'd had an interracial date. Yes, he said, "back in the day, before John fell in love with me." A very relaxed McCartney talked about the Beatles, revealing the original name for the Abbey Road album was "Mount Everest" because the engineer smoked Everest cigarettes, and defended Ringo Starr's announced intention to refuse autographs. "Listen, Ringo's not that busy," Stern said. McCartney responded, "Look, he has the right to do whatever he wants to do in life." When Stern asked why he used the Fireman instead of his own name, McCartney said, "I walk in the woods, and you make fires there. And my dad was a fireman. ...When you think about it, 'Sgt. Pepper's' was the Beatles hiding behind that, pretending we're in another band."
Radio on the TV: All right, it's easy for me to counsel lovers of oldies, standards, jazz, classic country and other formats that have become extinct on commercial radio, to get on the Internet or pay for HD or satellite radio. It all sounds so complicated or costly. It isn't, but that's another column. Here's another option if you have Comcast digital cable, and especially if your television is connected to your stereo system. If so, try Music Choice, which offers a wide world of channels of nonstop music. No commercials or DJs, and they provide song and artist info onscreen. Go to 935 for big bands and swing, 936 for standards (think KABL), 934 for easy listening (think of the original KABL), 930 for jazz, 931 for blues, 928 for "solid gold oldies," 906 for classic R&B and 903 for classic country. Now you're set. At home, anyway.
Ben Fong-Torres is a freelance writer.
So i have a limit order in for .10
You guys think we'll see any sell off before market close?
No....my prediction from yesterday was that SIRI would close green today. i still think that it will....
l'il trader,
if you sell 200 shares every 25 seconds....
maybe you can make it happen.
SIRI closed green @ .128......