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Sirius XM Fumbled Channel Merge at the Worst Time

Friday, November 14, 2008

No doubt this is not going to gain me any fans at Sirius XM, but this needs to be said. The company did its subscribers a huge disservice on Wednesday by pushing its massive channel reorganization on its nearly 20 million subscribers with little (if any) warning. This was a massive mistake for Sirius XM, and [...]

XM, Sirius Change Lineups As Expected

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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While much of the talk previous to today centered around changes to XM’s lineup, Sirius XM has made changes to both lineups effective immediately. Essentially, it takes a large majority of the channels on either service and combines them, with a few stations either going off the air or being moved onto either service’s online [...]

Sirius XM Takes a Big Hit, Still is Not Making Money

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Despite the best efforts of the company to fight back against those who question its financial health, people are still talking about the company’s disappointing results post-merger. This is not going to be helped along at all by Sirius XM’s most recent quarter: it posted a staggering $4.88 billion loss. Revenues did increase 17%, something CEO [...]

Hey, XM and Sirius: Are You Two Services or One?

Saturday, November 8, 2008

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Over at CNET, Matt Rosoff is reporting on the supposed impending channel merge between XM Radio and Sirius, the two satellite radio companies that merged in July. (In October, the two services began to offer extra-cost best-of packages of each others’ unique programming, such as Sirius’s Howard Stern channel and XM’s Oprah one.) The channel merge is [...]

Sirius XM Makes Good on A La Carte Promise

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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The satellite radio operator on Thursday debuted its first “a la carte” capable radio, the Starmate 5 for Sirius, while also giving users the option to get the best of the other service without having to change radios in most cases. The Best of Sirius package for XM includes Howard Stern, the NFL, NASCAR, additional college [...]