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Charles Heathco

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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:02 am Post subject: XM radio cost? bankruptcy posibilities

My 2 cents worth, paying H Stern several million a year was a move I think could bankrupt them, who will just LISTEN to that panderer, Im sure most watch him on the tube strictly for the visual content. Charlie Heathco 6A. Do not archive

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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:50 am Post subject: XM radio cost? bankruptcy posibilities

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 My 2 cents worth, paying H Stern several million a year was a move I think 

 could bankrupt them, who will just LISTEN to that panderer, Im sure most 

 watch him on the tube strictly for the visual content. Charlie Heathco 6A.


	


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But that was Sirius.  They don't have aviation weather.  If they go away, 

that just means more XM customers.



Larry Pardue

Carlsbad, NM



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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: XM radio cost? bankruptcy posibilities

It was Sirius the hired Stern not XM . . .

On 2/19/06, charles heathco <cheathco(at)junct.com> wrote:

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 My 2 cents worth, paying H Stern several million a year was a move I think could bankrupt them, who will just LISTEN to that panderer, Im sure most watch him on the tube strictly for the visual content. Charlie Heathco 6A. Do not archive

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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: XM radio cost? bankruptcy posibilities

Sirius...no weather...not necessarily and not forever.  Word is WSI is

looking to hookup with Sirius to provide their weather downloads.

Though WSI subscriptions are no better than XM.



Chuck Jensen

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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: XM radio cost? bankruptcy posibilities

And it was for $500,000,000 (5 hundred million) for five years.



Crap costs a lot  guess



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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: XM radio cost? bankruptcy posibilities

I've been an XM customer since 2002-03 when there were only a few hundred

thousand subscribers.  I chose them over Sirius because I liked their

funding base (GM and Honda) and thought they would be the one to survive.

 In 08/2003 they had 700,000 subscribers, 2004 - 2.5 million subscribers and

Acura and Audi invested making their radios standard in their high-end cars,

by December of 2004 they had 3.1 million subscribers along with Bob Edwards

from NPR, Toyota, Nissan, SAAB, VW etc. by 10/2005 5 million subscribers and

by January of 2006 6 million customers.  With that kind of growth I don't'

see them folding any time soon.



I've got 4 XM radios and XM feeding my EX500 in my RV6.  It's an addiction

and like cable TV (who would ever pay for TV) once you've used it you can

get away from it!



As for Stern ($670MM total contract) .. that's been corrected he is on

Sirius.  However the assumption that no one will buy the radios because he's

there has not proved to be true.  The projections are the Sirius has added

2.7million subscribers since the Stern announcement in 2004.  How many just

for stern who knows.  They currently project that they that they have 3

million subscribers so the 'gap' between XM and Sirius is about the same as

when he announced.  We'll just have to see how it pans out.  Wheather you

like his style etc, his fans are rabidly loyal.



I use XM weather all the time... it is incredible and worth every cent

especially for a VFR pilot on long cross countries.  It's far superior to

the narrow-cast weather we originally got from Avidyne and in the long run

less expensive.  Once you use it you'll never  be without it and it's

available NOW unlike ADS-b in the mid-west.



Regards,



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On 2/19/06, John Fasching <n1cxo320(at)salidaco.com> wrote:

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 And it was for $500,000,000 (5 hundred million) for five years.



 Crap costs a lot  guess



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