Comments on: Liberty: Stern is safe — for now

By: Tim G

Tim G — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:51:36 +0000

I too would probably dump SiriusXM without Stern. That said, I do love the music channels and also tuning into Foxnews during breaking news. It would be harder without Stern.

By: Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:30:42 +0000

I’m with that last guy! I only listen to 100-101…and I even got the best of XM just so they have more revenue! Stern is as bad as can! I’m gone if he’s gone!

By: Fafa Fluey

Fafa Fluey — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:17:26 +0000

Howard Stern is the ONLY reason that I am a subscriber to SiriusXM. If he leaves, I leave.

By: Underdog Lady

Underdog Lady — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:21:43 +0000

just to do some quick math on the Stern investment. not pure finance math but just basic math to start out and get ballpark figure: Stern is paid $100 Million a year (actually not Stern. that figure is the budget to run the show, including paying everyone else on the show and having the Sybian cleaned every couple weeks, but I digress..), average subscription is ~$13 per month. there are 12 months in a year. in order for Stern to pay for himself he would have had to brought on about 641k listeners. let’s round to 700k just for fun. Prior to Stern’s announcement of going over to Sirius they had 662k subscribers. A year later they had 3 Million. beginning of 2008 they had over 8million. Now obviously you can’t attribute all of this to Stern, but I know it is fairly obvious that Stern either directly brought in at least a couple million of those, as well as brought such a large awareness of Sirius to the general public that people signed on for other content that they were made aware of. So while that contract number may look big I do believe that Sirius as a company would have gone belly up had the ‘Stern Effect’ not been in place

By: Dan Carver

Dan Carver — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:37:30 +0000

“But does this mean the big money deals that Karmazin signed with the likes of Howard Stern…”

Some fact checking is in order here. Mel Karmazin did not sign Howard Stern. Howard Stern signed with Sirius before Karmazin was hired as CEO.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:48:10 +0000

I think give the trouble Sirius is in its going to be necessary
to do the following:
Cut salary of FoxNews people such as Brian and the Judge,John Gibson and Bill O’Reilly to change their compensation to
a more realistic level. That would be $50 per show without
benefits, for the benefit of the survival of the company,
like GM auto workers taking pay cuts.
Also Lynn Samuels be dropped from Sirius Left entirely for
lying on her employment application…and presenting a show
that is worse than water torcher.

By: Adam Shrug

Adam Shrug — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:51:56 +0000

Ba-ba-booey, ba-ba-booey.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:51:02 +0000

Fine news!