Is Satellite Radio Doomed if Howard Stern retires?
06-22-15 | 09:40 AM
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Bluetooth takes care of the "plugging in part, and I've not run into any data issues myself. Especially with podcasts which are downloaded automatically for me at home.
06-22-15 | 09:58 AM
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Right, I just think it's silly to base the entirety of the subscribership on 800 random people, just like TV ratings.
06-22-15 | 10:03 AM
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Who?
Wife and I have had XM subscriptions off and on for years and Stern was never a factor. When my wife bought her car two years ago it was part of the package, and every time it expires she calls and threatens to leave unless they give her an absurdly cheap deal, which they always do.
Wife and I have had XM subscriptions off and on for years and Stern was never a factor. When my wife bought her car two years ago it was part of the package, and every time it expires she calls and threatens to leave unless they give her an absurdly cheap deal, which they always do.
06-22-15 | 10:12 AM
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I may keep it when that day comes but probably not. I like the Grateful Dead channel but other than that, it's nothing I don't have on my iPhone at better sound quality.
06-22-15 | 10:18 AM
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I joined Sirius a number of years ago not because of Stern, who I've never listened to, but because I was sick of terrestrial radio, with all of the ads and annoying DJs. Just too much talking. As Sirius evolved, I found that the DJs were talking more and more, often with veiled ads. I got sick of it and went to Spotify. I pay $10 a month for Spotify, can download everything I want and listen in the car via bluetooth or anywhere else for that matter. I also listen to podcasts as well.
For price, here in Canada, it looks like if you want internet streaming, Stern and the premium channels, it's now over $300 a year. That's insane. Of course, once you threaten to cancel, you can get it for much cheaper (I was paying $90 a year when I quit earlier this year). I often found the reception in my city wasn't great, so with all of these factors contributing, I decided not to renew, despite being a loyal fan for quite a while.
For price, here in Canada, it looks like if you want internet streaming, Stern and the premium channels, it's now over $300 a year. That's insane. Of course, once you threaten to cancel, you can get it for much cheaper (I was paying $90 a year when I quit earlier this year). I often found the reception in my city wasn't great, so with all of these factors contributing, I decided not to renew, despite being a loyal fan for quite a while.
06-22-15 | 10:30 AM
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Anyway, the last published numbers are from 2007, and it's likely that given the advent of Pandora, Spotify, etc. they have only gone down.
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-big-are...terns-ratings/
Places it at 1.2M listeners per week. That's about 400k per show. Sirius has over 25M subscribers. So it may even be worse than 12%. Much worse.
Howard doesn't even really comment anymore about his subscriber base on air. He knows listenership has gone down. He's an acquired taste to begin with, and there are more benign options out there. In truth, how many millenials are listening to Howard anyway? He's not really a voice of their generation.
Howard has been good for SXM but I do not think it will mean their demise if he leaves.
06-22-15 | 10:31 AM
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06-22-15 | 02:07 PM
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Anyone know how many business customers satellite radio has? I know they've approached my friend's bar and my GF's business before, but (in my GF's case) they wanted 20-30% more per month than Muzak, and in any event, my GF's company had a few months left on their contract with Muzak.
06-22-15 | 06:16 PM
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I always find many of his shows and interviews on YouTube or elsewhere online. I can't imagine why anyone would pay a 100 dollars just for Stern.
06-22-15 | 06:50 PM
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Not a statistic major I gather.
Anyway, the last published numbers are from 2007, and it's likely that given the advent of Pandora, Spotify, etc. they have only gone down.
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-big-are...terns-ratings/
Places it at 1.2M listeners per week. That's about 400k per show. Sirius has over 25M subscribers. So it may even be worse than 12%. Much worse.
Howard doesn't even really comment anymore about his subscriber base on air. He knows listenership has gone down. He's an acquired taste to begin with, and there are more benign options out there. In truth, how many millenials are listening to Howard anyway? He's not really a voice of their generation.
Howard has been good for SXM but I do not think it will mean their demise if he leaves.
Anyway, the last published numbers are from 2007, and it's likely that given the advent of Pandora, Spotify, etc. they have only gone down.
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-big-are...terns-ratings/
Places it at 1.2M listeners per week. That's about 400k per show. Sirius has over 25M subscribers. So it may even be worse than 12%. Much worse.
Howard doesn't even really comment anymore about his subscriber base on air. He knows listenership has gone down. He's an acquired taste to begin with, and there are more benign options out there. In truth, how many millenials are listening to Howard anyway? He's not really a voice of their generation.
Howard has been good for SXM but I do not think it will mean their demise if he leaves.
06-25-15 | 01:09 AM
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I listen to Twins baseball, NFL, and Sinatra.
The rest is JUNK to me.
The rest is JUNK to me.
06-25-15 | 04:35 AM
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I have the internet radio version and as much as I pay for it ,I would have thought that there would be more sports(NHL,NBA,MLS,NFL) team broadcasts put all I get is MLB and very few college games .
06-25-15 | 07:07 AM
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06-25-15 | 01:46 PM
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I have it for 2 channels: Caliente and the NFL Network.
07-22-15 | 06:56 AM
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I have been listening to Howard Stern going back to the 1980's, but I actually think I would keep Sirius even if he retired.
He was on vacation for the past 2 weeks, and they played 'The History of Howard Stern' throughout the day of all his great clips since he started in the 1970's, and it made me realize how average his show is these days. He is still entertaining, but the show hasn't been great for atleast 10-15 years, as when he came back this week I sort of missed the last 2 weeks of all his 'best of' clips.
He was on vacation for the past 2 weeks, and they played 'The History of Howard Stern' throughout the day of all his great clips since he started in the 1970's, and it made me realize how average his show is these days. He is still entertaining, but the show hasn't been great for atleast 10-15 years, as when he came back this week I sort of missed the last 2 weeks of all his 'best of' clips.
07-22-15 | 07:54 AM
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I'd probably keep it. I like the 24/7 Grateful Dead channel. 
Bingo.
Plus Pandora fucking sucks. Their smart play listing blows not to mention annoying ads. If I listen to music, I listen to the 62.2 days worth of music I curated on my phone via iTunes Match.
You can't imagine someone waking up and going to work and just wanting to put the radio on?
Sigh. I love the people that want 60 year old Howard Stern to still be throwing bologna on strippers while Artie half laughs in a heroin-induced haze. Howard Stern has become one of the finest interviewers in broadcasting. I for one have also grown older and don't need to hear zany Howie insulting guests and painting breast o'green any longer. 
Plus Pandora fucking sucks. Their smart play listing blows not to mention annoying ads. If I listen to music, I listen to the 62.2 days worth of music I curated on my phone via iTunes Match.
I have been listening to Howard Stern going back to the 1980's, but I actually think I would keep Sirius even if he retired.
He was on vacation for the past 2 weeks, and they played 'The History of Howard Stern' throughout the day of all his great clips since he started in the 1970's, and it made me realize how average his show is these days. He is still entertaining, but the show hasn't been great for atleast 10-15 years, as when he came back this week I sort of missed the last 2 weeks of all his 'best of' clips.
He was on vacation for the past 2 weeks, and they played 'The History of Howard Stern' throughout the day of all his great clips since he started in the 1970's, and it made me realize how average his show is these days. He is still entertaining, but the show hasn't been great for atleast 10-15 years, as when he came back this week I sort of missed the last 2 weeks of all his 'best of' clips.
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07-30-15 | 04:11 PM
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Personally, we pay for Sirius/XM in my wife's car for music. Mainstream radio plays the same old BS constantly, and if it's new it's boring. I haven't listened to Stern for years on Sirius, and in my own car just do NPR to avoid hearing AC/DC and Nirvana all day long.
08-04-15 | 10:26 AM
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Sigh. I love the people that want 60 year old Howard Stern to still be throwing bologna on strippers while Artie half laughs in a heroin-induced haze. Howard Stern has become one of the finest interviewers in broadcasting. I for one have also grown older and don't need to hear zany Howie insulting guests and painting breast o'green any longer.
I have always loved Stern's interviews (simply because they aren't phony compared to an actor who goes on some late night show or Good Morning America and everything is pretty much rehearsed), I enjoy when Stern does the news with Robin and his bits were usually great too. What has changed about Stern is that I think the show lost alot after Jackie and Billy West left. Jackie was a great writer and his laugh in the backround was funny as hell, and Billy could do any impression.
Also, Stern got divorced and married a hot model so it sort of went against what made it funny before. When he was married and had 3 kids, he was this guy who was the King of all Media and yet he would go home to his wife and kids like every average Joe. He was able to live all of his fantasies through the show because he would never cheat on Alison. Now he has a hot wife and that whole schtick is gone because he finally got the grand prize.
Don't get me wrong, Stern is still the best on Radio, but not nearly as great as he was 15-20 years ago.
08-04-15 | 11:05 AM
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Anybody listening or have listened to The History Of Howard Stern on Sirius?
It is quite extensive and long. All parts are available in their In Demand section.
It is quite extensive and long. All parts are available in their In Demand section.
08-04-15 | 11:30 AM
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Plus, they played the actual scene from WNBC with Pig Vomit where Stern goes into his office and starts hounding him while holding the phone so the listeners could hear. I always thought they played that part up in the movie, but it was pretty accurate and just as funny!
08-04-15 | 01:15 PM
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I just cancelled. I had internet radio. It was way too expensive plus the sound quality was poor.
08-04-15 | 04:31 PM
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I still listen to Stern on demand, but I like it best when there are no interviews, period. Just him goofing on/with his staff is entertaining enough.
I will agree he is still the best interviewer in the business. I just tend to skip over most of them.
I will agree he is still the best interviewer in the business. I just tend to skip over most of them.
12-15-15 | 09:44 AM
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There aren’t many celebrities with the power to move a company’s stock price. But Howard Stern is one of them: He helped to lift Sirius XM Holdings shares 5.3% in pre-market trading this morning after agreeing to stay on the air for five years as part of a 12 year deal with the satellite radio company that includes its first foray into streamed video programming.
He’ll keep The Howard Stern Show going on SiriusXM for five years. He’ll produce his Howard 101 channel, with new and old episodes plus additional programming.
Sirius also picked up 12-year rights to Stern’s audio and video performances from his 30 year career. Video plans “will be announced at a future date,” the company says. They will include video from his show as well as “the Howard Stern archives and special programming.”
Stern says that SiriusXM’s “best days are ahead. So, if you are not listening to SiriusXM and The Howard Stern Show, then you are really more like a zombie, a rotting corpse monster, living half a life, deadened and blackened inside. It’s as if you were still watching black and white television while shopping in actual stores on your way to the post office to fax a memo.”
He calls company CEO Jim Meyer “my life partner and the baby we are about to have is our new streaming video app. The joy we are going to bring you in the very near future will make you feel like Christmas is every day. Ho, Ho, Howard…out.”
For his part, Meyer calls the deal with Stern “unique and pioneering.”
They crafted it over several months with Stern’s long time agent Don Buchwald. He says the terms “required a lot of give and take, as well as creative thinking on everyone’s part, and I am grateful to them …for the hard work they invested to make this deal a reality.”
The deal comes a day before Stern’s last scheduled show from his previous five-year contract, which Macquarie Securities’ Amy Yong estimates included as much as $500 million in cash and stock. Prior to this morning’s announcement, she predicted that a new deal could raise the total as much as 20%, possibly increasing SiriusXM’s programming outlays about 3%.
Although the company, controlled by John Malone’s Liberty Media, might save money by ending the relationship, “concern would shift to customer attrition and Sirius XM’s advantage in a competitive space,” she says.
But Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Swinburne concluded early this month that, although the company made a profit from Stern, losing Stern would be “manageable” based on a November online survey of 2,000 audio listeners. About 9% of the satellite radio company’s subscribers in the survey said that they mostly bought it for Stern. Yet 70% primarily listen to music.
He’ll keep The Howard Stern Show going on SiriusXM for five years. He’ll produce his Howard 101 channel, with new and old episodes plus additional programming.
Sirius also picked up 12-year rights to Stern’s audio and video performances from his 30 year career. Video plans “will be announced at a future date,” the company says. They will include video from his show as well as “the Howard Stern archives and special programming.”
Stern says that SiriusXM’s “best days are ahead. So, if you are not listening to SiriusXM and The Howard Stern Show, then you are really more like a zombie, a rotting corpse monster, living half a life, deadened and blackened inside. It’s as if you were still watching black and white television while shopping in actual stores on your way to the post office to fax a memo.”
He calls company CEO Jim Meyer “my life partner and the baby we are about to have is our new streaming video app. The joy we are going to bring you in the very near future will make you feel like Christmas is every day. Ho, Ho, Howard…out.”
For his part, Meyer calls the deal with Stern “unique and pioneering.”
They crafted it over several months with Stern’s long time agent Don Buchwald. He says the terms “required a lot of give and take, as well as creative thinking on everyone’s part, and I am grateful to them …for the hard work they invested to make this deal a reality.”
The deal comes a day before Stern’s last scheduled show from his previous five-year contract, which Macquarie Securities’ Amy Yong estimates included as much as $500 million in cash and stock. Prior to this morning’s announcement, she predicted that a new deal could raise the total as much as 20%, possibly increasing SiriusXM’s programming outlays about 3%.
Although the company, controlled by John Malone’s Liberty Media, might save money by ending the relationship, “concern would shift to customer attrition and Sirius XM’s advantage in a competitive space,” she says.
But Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Swinburne concluded early this month that, although the company made a profit from Stern, losing Stern would be “manageable” based on a November online survey of 2,000 audio listeners. About 9% of the satellite radio company’s subscribers in the survey said that they mostly bought it for Stern. Yet 70% primarily listen to music.