Re: [IRCA] Poll on satellite radio acceptance.

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Disclamer: I trade stock and options in both companies professionally and am 
ethically required to state that nothing I will say should be taken as a 
recommendation to buy or sell either stock.

Satellite radio is making decent market penetration and I think it's main 
use is in autos and some businesses. I have only had XM in rental cars on 
trips and found it OK, but not good enough that I signed up upon my return 
home. I really didn't care for ads for XM and other fanfare and ads for 
other XM channels every several minutes in breaks. However, quite a few like 
the portable receivers.

I think there is room for one sat radio company but not two. In several 
years we will see how well they've done and whether they'll merge (if 
FCC/gov allows on monopolistic grounds) or if one or both are taken over. 
Will a take over be a real aquisition by a CC or ABC or ? Or will it be a 
white knight saving one or both companies from the brink of bankruptcy ? It 
will be interesting to see !

Enough said .. 73 KAZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LAWRENCE STOLER" <lstoler99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poll on satellite radio acceptance.


>I usually just read this list and find it interesting.  I don't usually
> comment but I had to on this topic.
>
> I have heard and read all the comments and arguments about satellite radio
> pro and con.  I have listened to XM through a friend that I visited in 
> Texas
> last year who has it in his home.  I do not have XM or Sirius at this 
> point.
>
> I do not think most people in America are ready to pay for radio.  The way
> the medium is programmed these days has resulted in people using it as a
> background source because it does not stand out but that's another 
> subject.
>
> The people that are not happy with what they hear on regular over the air
> radio have so many alternatives and the number of choices increases all 
> the
> time.  For example, I find so much to listen to on the internet that an
> investment in satellite radio will not be worth it at this point.  I would
> not have time for it.
>
> Ultimately as was said in a previous post, it is the content that will 
> make
> or brake it for Sirius and XM.  It will take years before either company
> breaks even and it will depend on the number of subscribers they get.
>
> By the time the goal of these companies is achieved, so many choices will
> exist that satellite radio may not get the attention it is looking for.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poll on satellite radio acceptance.
>
>
>> Patrick,
>>
>> Like you, I get a bunch of music channels, but on my cable rather than
>> satellite dish.  Only of use in the house though.  I rarely listen to it.
>>
>> In the past I listened to baseball I couldn't otherwise hear, via the
>> Internet and still do.  Every game is available for what I consider a
>> small
>> fee for the season, but again confined to the house -- although I guess 
>> if
>> you had an elaborate mobile computing arrangement it might be possible to
>> break free of the wires.
>>
>> If I could listen to a game on a local broadcast outlet, that would be my
>> preference because it is the most convenient.  Since my team is not the
>> home town one though, that option is not available.
>>
>> What convinced me to buy XM Satellite service was the availability of
>> baseball and the announcement of the portable XM receivers.  I could now
>> take baseball with me just as I might with an AM portable radio, with the
>> advantage of not being limited as to teams that could be followed.
>> Clearly
>> more expensive than an AM radio, and with a subscription fee, but with a
>> far broader reach in return.  Now that I have it, I find other content I
>> enjoy that is not otherwise available.
>>
>> This was the justification for me.  I expect others were similarly
>> motivated, though likely not a major percentage of all XM subscribers, 
>> and
>> no doubt a minute percentage of baseball fans.  Of no interest to me, but
>> obviously considered a big draw by Sirius, Howard Stern (I think that's
>> the
>> guy) is another reason some people will subscribe.  Mobile music without
>> the need to download or record is likely a major draw.
>>
>> If the content on satellite is not unique enough for an individual, then
>> the alternatives are always there and they'll not be satellite
>> subscribers.  In every instance it is the content that attracts
>> subscribers, as I see it, not the sound quality or other technological
>> issues -- so long as there are not major impediments in the technology.
>>
>> As a mobile medium, considering what people must be paying in cell phone
>> charges, satellite radio is almost free, and more expansive than all the
>> local AM and FM outlets combined.
>>
>> And as I always add, IMHO.
>>
>> Curt
>>
>>
>>
>> At 06:16 PM 1/3/2006, you wrote:
>>>Curt,
>>>
>>>In my case, I have satellite radio with the Dish Network and also with
>>>my Big Dish. Not in the car though. The Dish Network has Sirius's music
>>>channels, plus there are zillions of music channels and radio stations
>>>on satellite in different digital formats. I would not pay for it
>>>separately either. If I want music, I just record it and play it in the
>>>van which I do often anyway, especially when I travel.
>>>
>>>73,
>>>
>>>Patrick
>>>
>>>Patrick Martin
>>>Seaside  OR
>>>KAVT Reception Manager
>>>

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