This Start-Up Expert Is Bearish on Sirius XM (AAPL, AMZN, P, SIRI)

This Start-Up Expert Is Bearish on Sirius XM

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Report this Comment On December 10, 2011, at 2:30 PM, southernbeachguy wrote:

I do not think that you understand the Sirus Market. Sirus has 21 Million PAYING subscribers that LOVE Sirus and do not think that $15 is much to pay. Pandora is a Free service that is listened by people (mostly Children) that don't want to pay for a service. Sirus is growing, they had $500 Million free cash flow last year and expect to have $850 this year. Sirus has a great selection of Music, sports, new & Talk. Just because Pandora & Sirus both play music, they attract 2 different subscribers. In a terrible economy Sirus has grown. When the Economy comes back the subscriber base will really grow. Just my thoughts.
Report this Comment On December 10, 2011, at 3:17 PM, buzzltyr wrote:

I have held sirius thru the 6 cents days, every couple months someone warns against Pandora. You have go to be kidding me. Sirius is for people who can afford a car, not for college students
Report this Comment On December 10, 2011, at 4:31 PM, hwireless wrote:

Buzz,
If sirius is for people who can only afford a car, then the cell phone industry is in big trouble. Not to mention all the churn they must have from that youth market.
Report this Comment On December 10, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Siriusbrit wrote:

"He explains why shares his thoughts on the prospects for an Apple TV set". are you kidding me! At least put a little effort in ,so that you do not sound like a complete moron, throwing something out there just to earn a buck on 'clicks'!
Guess you were running late for a game or something? Sirius is here to stay and has NO competition when it comes to listening to the following over the 'radio': Stern, Live football, baseball and soccer, Live financial info, Martha Stewart, Oprah, Comedy Channels etc. etc. Oh! and by the way Sirius also has music stations as well......Pandora! well, let me see, SatRad 2.0 takes care of that little bit of competition!
Sirius for Professionals, Pandora for the homeless!
Report this Comment On December 11, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Austin77478 wrote:

This guy IMHO doesn't know what he is talking about. "999 all you can eat?" How is this going to be delivered without something reliable like satellite? Also, can these other companies afford multiple content costs? Think outside the box man!
Report this Comment On December 11, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Austin77478 wrote:

I will give The Motley Fool credit for allowing a chance for a rebuttal to the audio interview, unlike some goat/hero guy.
Report this Comment On December 11, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Siri1 wrote:

Oh, and probably the most overlooked information is that SiriusXM doesn't live and die by "radio" what the satellites are capable of: All kinds of content delivery, government uses, oh I almost forgot the badwidth spectrum is pretty much priceless. Yea Spotify and Pandora competition- who are you kidding?

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