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I think it was a 10 year contract and iirc he's only going to do 4 shows a week. I have no fucking clue where Sirius is going to get the money to pay stern 10 million a year with the rest of their overpaid purchases in the past 8 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowdisease
They're following the Amazon model. Amazon was losing money, lots of it, for the first 5 or 6 years of their existence.Quote:
I have no fucking clue where Sirius is going to get the money to pay stern 10 million a year with the rest of their overpaid purchases in the past 8 months.
You mean that non-satelite radio will be flooded with Spanish language music to make white people pay for a service they used to recieve for free?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
No way...
yes wayQuote:
Originally Posted by Josh
DEY TERK ERR RADIO!!!
XM has 3 already, with the next gen ones on the way which will be be MP3 players as well. Sirius is more than a year behind. I wouldn't wait around for them to catch up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowdisease
Yeah, however, Sirius' business model, even going by their own predictions, doesn't see them moving into the black until much farther down than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Say what you will about the service, you have to be basically retarded to buy Sirius stock. XM is much more conservative on the business end, and they're kicking sirius' ass with subscriptions and should be in the black by the end of 2006 or so.
It was 5 years, but yeah, he's doing 4 days a week, 9 months a year. Lame.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
$100 million a year. It's a 5 year, half-billion dollar deal, if you can imagine such a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
You know that Sirius portable is awesome! Why get an XM unit that can record 4 hours of programming when you can get the Sirius equivalent that can do an amazing 44 minutes!?
Its $100 million for the *whole show*. That's the show's budget.
Anyway, I can clearly see whats happening with satellite radio, what with Frog and Schlep, some sort of religious war similar to Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Linux, Nintendo vs. Sega, whatever, is forming.
Sad.
This is ok. I lived with Mexican radio for the past year.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
Much of it is preferable to anything else that could be on the radio.
Mena? Yes please.
Are college students still shouting things like this at the top of their lungs all the time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Revoltor
Weird to hear that the change was in the middle of the day, I just remember putting it on once when I was changing CDs in my car and hearing it be some crappy rap song... my roommate was like "yeah, it changed over the weekend I think"... this would have been my senior year of college, so I'd place it at late 2003. But hey, it could have been early since I don't listen to the radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
I was on a plane to Detroit (well, layover in detroit, my final destination was CO) and some guy sitting next to me claimed he knew the guy that ran 104 and said he pitched the idea to change it to Urban since 93.7 was wrecking shop in ratings.
Dunno about PLR, but that's been responded to. CCC is the only one left in CT, and I live on the border to MA, so I listen to Rock 102.1 once in a great while. They are still indy, or at least they haven't changed at all in forever.
I listen to a local college station 107.7, 102.1 (rock 102 - classic rock), WCCC, and WAAF from Wocester/Boston if ever I listen to the radio, which is just when I've been on the road a while and sick of whatever handfull of CDs I brought with me (my new car doesn't support MP3s like my old one did).