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VegasLightz
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Posted - January 14 2006 : 3:38p

I was going through Stern withdrawals so I broke down and bought the Sirius S50. There are so many features on this receiver that I'll need a 12 year old to help me figure out how to use them, but it plays great. I'm sure next month Sirius will come out with a truly portable receiver and this unit will be out dated, but until then at least my mornings are now filled with laughs and giggles!

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Posted - January 14 2006 : 5:36p

Thats a great toy you have there

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Posted - January 14 2006 : 5:51p

Have fun listening to the now uncut Stern. JIMMY

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Posted - January 14 2006 : 6:18p

Cool new toy.

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Posted - January 14 2006 : 6:33p

Thats a pretty cool unit, I was checking one out the other day.

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Posted - January 14 2006 : 10:44p

Nice

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 9:41a

I heard they gave him another 200 mil as a bonus. How the hell are they going to recover 700 Mil over 5 years?

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 9:51a

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I heard they gave him another 200 mil as a bonus. How the hell are they going to recover 700 Mil over 5 years?

Damn good question! They sure spend their investors money it seems to me quite freely. I think they have like 3 million subscribers and if you take the monthly 12.95 charge multiply it times the number of subscribers I still can't see how they can make a profit. Considering Stern is not their only employee, what it costs for rental time from the Satellite and the rest of their equipment, building space, overhead................but, they have been around for a long time!

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 9:55a

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I heard they gave him another 200 mil as a bonus. How the hell are they going to recover 700 Mil over 5 years?

But those sorts of bonus' are usually tied to other things, ie: X number of new subs or whatever. I doubt he got a check for $200,000,000 up front.

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 10:33a

Speaking of Sirius, they now make a direct plugin tuner for 2004-up Sony headunits, but nobody has it available yet, and I can't find any info on wether it's compatible with my cdx-f7715x. I'm guessing it is since it's a 2005 model, but I don't want to buy one until I'm sure.

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 11:02a

I heard that 200 mil was in stock, not cash, I could be wrong tho.

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 11:35a

It was in the form of stock because he met his subscriber level before the deadline. I think it was 3million subs.

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Posted - January 15 2006 : 12:15p

I had Sirius before Sterns, and truthfully I still don't listen to him, but we will have NASCAR in 2007

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