Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19679409 en Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:49 EDT Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:49 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19696858 james : Obviously because they would now have access to the great Bababooey.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19696858 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:48:44 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19691430 onebadmofo :
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said by onebadmofo See Profile :

AT&T is now Cingular. After acquiring those other towers...they're STILL shitty?
Well prior to the original merger, in which Cingular bought out the old AT&T Wireless (2003ish I think?), they had roamed on each other's networks. I had noticed the same dead zones we ran into near my relatives' houses back at that time are still there now.
Yeah I have those dead zones with Nextel. You go into my mother in laws house and there goes your reception.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19691430 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:04:53 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19690522 pnh102 :
said by onebadmofo See Profile :

AT&T is now Cingular. After acquiring those other towers...they're STILL shitty?
Well prior to the original merger, in which Cingular bought out the old AT&T Wireless (2003ish I think?), they had roamed on each other's networks. I had noticed the same dead zones we ran into near my relatives' houses back at that time are still there now.
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said by pnh102 See Profile :

said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Doesn't seeing that pay day make you sick ? I think he is a good ceo but not that good.
Well just to clarify, I would have no problem with Karmazin making infinity dollars an hour if Sirius was also making that kind of money.
said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Seeing at&t and the comcast ones make me sick as well. These drops add a lot to the bucket when it comes to price increases.
I'm not familiar with AT&T or Comcast's financial details so I can't really comment on their executive pay. However, I do know that AT&T Wireless still seems to have the same dead zones in the same places as it has had for many years, and has yet to fix them. You'd think with all the money spent on trashing the Cingular brand that they could have put up a few new cell towers instead.
AT&T is now Cingular. After acquiring those other towers...they're STILL shitty?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19686244 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:49:27 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19685459 pnh102 :
said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Doesn't seeing that pay day make you sick ? I think he is a good ceo but not that good.
Well just to clarify, I would have no problem with Karmazin making infinity dollars an hour if Sirius was also making that kind of money.
said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Seeing at&t and the comcast ones make me sick as well. These drops add a lot to the bucket when it comes to price increases.
I'm not familiar with AT&T or Comcast's financial details so I can't really comment on their executive pay. However, I do know that AT&T Wireless still seems to have the same dead zones in the same places as it has had for many years, and has yet to fix them. You'd think with all the money spent on trashing the Cingular brand that they could have put up a few new cell towers instead.
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said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

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said by MadMANN See Profile :

If you think they are shit now, you should have seen them before he showed up and pulled the sub numbers up. They would be out of business completely if not for him.
Oh yeah I seen them. That's why I bought into them. I though he'd bring that business up and I thought I'd make some money off of them. Turns out...I'm losing money.
I made a nice chunk. I owned their stock when it was at the low low price of 1.76 a share, needless to say I sat on it and watched XM climb thanks to clearchannels advertising infusion and kept holding , once that sucker hit almost $10 a share i dumped it faster then I could type.

Laughed all the way to the bank.

Right now owning Sirius is a good looking gamble if they merge it's a gold mine.
I heard that if they merge, stocks on the Sirius side won't much of anything. But the XM side of things could see a big increase.

How could that be true?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19683901 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:03:03 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19683855 Reese1972 : The sound is not that good either.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19683855 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:50:30 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19682565 BosstonesOwn : Because Oprah is just a brand , she doesn't develop content for their system , just rehashed shit from her show.

Oprah took the money and ran , just like she does from her followers.
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said by pnh102 See Profile :

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Sirius Satellite Radio: Mel Karmazin, CEO, $31.1 million


"Gordon Gekko" was right.

I love my Sirius service but paying any executive this kind of salary when the company is losing money hand over fist is insane.

I'll make an offer to Sirius... Hire me to be the CEO. I will continue losing money, but take only $1 million a year.
Doesn't seeing that pay day make you sick ? I think he is a good ceo but not that good.

Seeing at&t and the comcast ones make me sick as well. These drops add a lot to the bucket when it comes to price increases.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19682563 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:37:15 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19682561 BosstonesOwn :
said by onebadmofo See Profile :

said by MadMANN See Profile :

If you think they are shit now, you should have seen them before he showed up and pulled the sub numbers up. They would be out of business completely if not for him.
Oh yeah I seen them. That's why I bought into them. I though he'd bring that business up and I thought I'd make some money off of them. Turns out...I'm losing money.
I made a nice chunk. I owned their stock when it was at the low low price of 1.76 a share, needless to say I sat on it and watched XM climb thanks to clearchannels advertising infusion and kept holding , once that sucker hit almost $10 a share i dumped it faster then I could type.

Laughed all the way to the bank.

Right now owning Sirius is a good looking gamble if they merge it's a gold mine.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19682561 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:35:32 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19681000 gswonsn : They will continue to lose money as long as they offer the inferior content that they do and over pay those that don't deserve that much money. I am only worried that if and/or when their merger with the much netter XM radio that they will change it. I got a free subscription to Sirius with a new car and it has been the biggest disappointment of that purchase. They are not the best radio on radio, but merely a non-commercial subscription radio that is no better than listening to free over the air broadcast. Why is Stern worth that much money when XM was able to get Oprah for much less than $1 million? Seems that they are much better bargainers and would some day some be profitable since they are paying talent and executives all the money that their subscribers pay each month.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19681000 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:33:59 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679757 Titus Pullo :
said by pnh102 See Profile :

said by MadMANN See Profile :

And Howard Stern is making over three times that per year.
Stern is worth every penny and then some.
Let's quantify to whom: Stern is worth three times that much to Sirius; he's worth nothing to me, and hasn't been since I outgrew him 20 years ago. Same tired old shtick still working its magic on the young or developmentally challenged.

The communism crap argument is too old to entertain. The salaries of CEOs are obscene in comparison to labor. Period.
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said by MadMANN See Profile :

If you think they are shit now, you should have seen them before he showed up and pulled the sub numbers up. They would be out of business completely if not for him.
Oh yeah I seen them. That's why I bought into them. I though he'd bring that business up and I thought I'd make some money off of them. Turns out...I'm losing money. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679733 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:17:41 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679513 MadMANN : If you think they are shit now, you should have seen them before he showed up and pulled the sub numbers up. They would be out of business completely if not for him.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679513 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:30:53 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679478 onebadmofo : But if he's bringing in so much more customers, why are their stocks are nothing but shit?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679478 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:23:46 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679409 MadMANN :
said by pnh102 See Profile :

said by MadMANN See Profile :

And Howard Stern is making over three times that per year. At least the talent is making more than the suit in this case.
Stern is worth every penny and then some. If he had not single-handedly increase Sirius' subscribership by at least 4x, Sirius would have gone under by now.
I agree 100%.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679409 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:09:47 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679330 pnh102 :
said by MadMANN See Profile :

And Howard Stern is making over three times that per year. At least the talent is making more than the suit in this case.
Stern is worth every penny and then some. If he had not single-handedly increase Sirius' subscribership by at least 4x, Sirius would have gone under by now.
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Either get someone in there who can change some things and help the annual reports, or give this asshat a 95% pay cut.

Edit: there != they're - doh!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679285 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:48:34 EDT Re: No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679282 MadMANN : And Howard Stern is making over three times that per year. At least the talent is making more than the suit in this case.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679282 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:48:20 EDT No Wonder Sirius is Losing Money! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679241 pnh102 :
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Sirius Satellite Radio: Mel Karmazin, CEO, $31.1 million

"Gordon Gekko" was right.

I love my Sirius service but paying any executive this kind of salary when the company is losing money hand over fist is insane.

I'll make an offer to Sirius... Hire me to be the CEO. I will continue losing money, but take only $1 million a year.
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Only SHATNER is Kirk.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19679241 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:42:17 EDT