You're such an optimist, 1/13 sounds right to me. :)
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Someone flunked proofreading.
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Analysis by PC Magazine
It's a good
Hmmm; that seems light too, suggesting less than 1 person in 13
listens to radio.
Nothing seems to jive with "23 million" in connection with the story.
Now $13 billion is the size of the deal. Maybe someone somewhere
slipped a digit.
Oh well...this will all be subject to review and dissection a
I meant *AM/FM* users.
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Somewhere in the PR it said that the two services combined would have
14 million users.
I tried finding a reference to "23 million" in the companies' PR but
haven't yet.
R
On 2/20/07, Scott Royall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Here are stats from 2004
AM STATIONS - 4781
FM COMMERCIAL - 6224
FM EDUCATIONAL - 2471
TOTAL: 13,476
On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Rob de Santos wrote:
Yea, I did, too.
Probably should be 23,000 but then maybe in the minds of some there
are 23,000,000 :-)
Think of the job openings D
Or 23 million users.
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Yea, I did, too.
That doesn't add up either.
>From Wikipedia,
"As of June 2004, the FCC had licensed 4,771 AM stations, 6,218
commercial FM stations, and 2,497 educational FM stations."
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_radio_stations_in_North_America.
Richard
On 2/20/07, Rob de Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Yea, I did, too.
Probably should be 23,000 but then maybe in the minds of some there are
23,000,000 :-)
Think of the job openings David!
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David Goren wrote:
> It's a good article but I found this sentence a bit strange
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> According to Parsons, the proposed XM-Sirius entity would compete
> against 23 million AM/FM stations
A radio station for every 20 people or so if you count cont
It's a good article but I found this sentence a bit strange
According to Parsons, the proposed XM-Sirius entity would compete
against 23 million AM/FM stations
On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Scott Royall wrote:
I find this article a bit meatier.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,20
I find this article a bit meatier.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2096700,00.asp
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One of the wrinkles I read today was a commitment from Sirius / XM to
offer "a la carte" pricing. That might head off some concerns.
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
On 2/20/07, Scott Royall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We should remember that CNN was a de facto monopoly in the cable market fo
I was more talking about the portion of the RF spectrum, the topic of this
mailing list, used by their subscribers. I don't need to belabor how
difficult it is for would-be providers to enter this market. Lofting a
constellation of satellites is still beyond the means of most countries,
much less p
We should remember that CNN was a de facto monopoly in the cable market for
decades.
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Glenn, we already know we're atypical. After all, we still have HF radios.
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I'm one listener that has thought long and hard about satellite radio
and haven't yet made the leap. I would love to be able to listen to
football from the BBC and CBC 1 at home or in my car with a high quality
signal, but the subscription fee has stopped me.
To be honest, with good quality sp
Following is a view from a CNN columnist that says the deal will be
good for consumers.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/20/technology/sirius_xm/
Headline: "Sirius-XM deal is sweet music for consumers"
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
On 2/19/07, Scott Royall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is
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