Harley Davidson Forums

Touring Models Road King, Road King Custom, Road King Classic, Road Glide, Street Glide, Electra Glide, Electra Glide Classic, and Electra Glide Ultra Classic bikes.
Sponsored by:
Sponsored by:

Sirrius or Xm radio

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
  #11  
Old 02-09-2009, 05:54 PM
burnafatty's Avatar
burnafatty
burnafatty is offline
Tourer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 303
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
Default
You are screwed!....just joking!
 
Reply Like
  #12  
Old 02-09-2009, 06:03 PM
bnelele's Avatar
bnelele
bnelele is offline
Advanced
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Morgan Hill, Ca
Posts: 86
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default
Originally Posted by Daves Not Here!
Yes, car sales are horrible, they have not put out a new combined product yet and their programming contracts total $475.4 million per year right now!

$80 million per year for Stern
$31.43 million per year for NFL
$21.5 million per year for Nascar
$59 million per year for Major League Baseball
Plus smaller contracts like Martha Stewart, college football, etc....

Not a bright future when you really look at it closer. Maybe the reason the stock is at 11 cents a share now.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/26/tech...tune/index.htm
Yes, it seems as if they have a lot going out with not a lot coming in. Alot of people bought a lifetime subscription for 4 or 5 hundred on a promo signup. Those who pay on a monthly basis provide a source of income for them, but if they get bought out by another company I am not sure if they would have to honour those lifetime contracts. Its sure nice to get a good station on our scoots when were out in the boonies
 
Reply Like
  #13  
Old 02-10-2009, 10:33 AM
cfmii11's Avatar
cfmii11
cfmii11 is offline
Road Master
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 771
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default
I have Sirius in the car and was waiting for a setup for the bike.
I'll think I'll just hang tight and see what happens.
 
Reply Like
  #14  
Old 02-10-2009, 01:11 PM
IAMSWUTIAMS's Avatar
IAMSWUTIAMS
IAMSWUTIAMS is offline
Extreme HDF Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: San Diego, Mexifornia
Posts: 18,664
Received 13 Likes on 12 Posts
Default
There might be a hostile takeover attempt by Echostar.
 
Reply Like
  #15  
Old 02-10-2009, 03:21 PM
Flying Horse's Avatar
Flying Horse
Flying Horse is offline
Road Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Right Coast
Posts: 1,989
Received 11 Likes on 8 Posts
Default
Originally Posted by Daves Not Here!
Yes, car sales are horrible, they have not put out a new combined product yet and their programming contracts total $475.4 million per year right now!

$80 million per year for Stern
$31.43 million per year for NFL
$21.5 million per year for Nascar
$59 million per year for Major League Baseball
Plus smaller contracts like Martha Stewart, college football, etc....

Not a bright future when you really look at it closer. Maybe the reason the stock is at 11 cents a share now.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/26/tech...tune/index.htm
Thats an awful lot of expense and poor management. Those contracts have to be reworked or cancelled, those payments are ridiculous.
 
Reply Like
  #16  
Old 02-10-2009, 03:50 PM
bobalou1999's Avatar
bobalou1999
bobalou1999 is offline
Intermediate
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location:
Posts: 49
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default Merger
Originally Posted by Trock
Good question. I took my credit card off file with them and don't plan on paying more than 2-3 months at a time. I doubt if they will go out of business but they may file BR or something like that. I sure you already know life time means life of the radio and not you I just don't think their going anywhere but there may be some changes. The merger would have been ok if they would have done it qiucker. No one was buying new radios because they didn't know what was going to happen. Siriusxm managment sucks. If they go under it's because they didn't handle the merger very well. And their not doing much better now.
The merger was not held up by Sirius managment,but by the Republican members on the FCC.The merger was approved by the Federal Trade Commission as not being a monopolly,but was held up by members of the FCC for over a year.They did approve the Exxon/Mobil merger in under 3 weeks .
 
Reply Like
  #17  
Old 02-10-2009, 03:52 PM
2008FLHP's Avatar
2008FLHP
2008FLHP is offline
Outstanding HDF Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: NC
Posts: 2,782
Likes: 0
Received 7 Likes on 3 Posts
Default
and dont forget bababooey he needs to be paid so he can payoff those highchairs
 
Attached Thumbnails Sirrius or Xm radio-1979garyfootballoi0.jpg  
Reply Like
  #18  
Old 02-10-2009, 03:53 PM
IAMSWUTIAMS's Avatar
IAMSWUTIAMS
IAMSWUTIAMS is offline
Extreme HDF Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: San Diego, Mexifornia
Posts: 18,664
Received 13 Likes on 12 Posts
Default
I think they're barstools
 
Reply Like
  #19  
Old 02-10-2009, 04:06 PM
Trock's Avatar
Trock
Trock is offline
Outstanding HDF Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Missouri
Posts: 2,847
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default
Originally Posted by bobalou1999
The merger was not held up by Sirius managment,but by the Republican members on the FCC.The merger was approved by the Federal Trade Commission as not being a monopolly,but was held up by members of the FCC for over a year.They did approve the Exxon/Mobil merger in under 3 weeks .
I know they had nothing to do with the merger. I just mean that the management in general sucks. They said they wouldn't raise rates when they went before the FCC. They just forgot to mention they would raise rates on your second or third radio. They also will start to charge for online listening when it was free before. They also have not developed new radios that will recieve both xm and sirius fast enough. Some of their contracts for some of their show are just crazy. And they canceled a lot of channels that people were pissed about. They need people signing up not canceling because of rates and content.
 
Last edited by Trock; 02-10-2009 at 04:08 PM.
Reply Like
  #20  
Old 02-10-2009, 04:13 PM
DGlide04's Avatar
DGlide04
DGlide04 is offline
Elite HDF Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Hudson Valley- NY
Posts: 4,019
Likes: 0
Received 3 Likes on 3 Posts
Default Satellite Radio
Originally Posted by Flying Horse
Thats an awful lot of expense and poor management. Those contracts have to be reworked or cancelled, those payments are ridiculous.
The contracts will get canceled if they go under and declare bankruptcy. It would be interesting to see how much cheese Howard, Opie and Athony and the others will get when the contracts are no longer valid. They went to satellite to get away from the censorship on FM radio, but if Echostar or someone else is the only game in town, they won't really have any position to bargain from.

This is going to get interesting.
 
Reply Like



Advanced Search
Quick Reply: Sirrius or Xm radio


Reply Closed Thread Share
Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:33 PM.