Sirius XM shares are up about 6% mid-day after the company said that a January price hike will help next year’s revenues grow 10% to about $3.3B while its free cash flow will rise 75% to about $700M. CEO Mel Karmazin is salivating over the satellite radio company’s first price increase in a decade, to $14.49 a month from $12.95. Karmazin told the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference that although the economy is “very sloppy,” Sirius XM expects to end this year with about 22.2M subscribers — up more than 7%, a higher increase than the company saw in 2010.


Think Mel will pay Howard’s bonus now? By the way, I’m seeking work as a professional school bus driver.
HOWARD ISN’T WORTH A BONUS !! He should be happy with he makes.
SiriusXM will suffer the same fate as Netflix.
These two phonies count the free trial users as subscribers, even though 99% cancel after freebie. Complete fraudulent books for suckers to fall for it. Problem is they do.
One day they will both be mentioned in same breath as Worldcom = bankrupt fraudulent mofos.
Source or STFU
Howard IS SiriusXM. He’s the only reason I subscribe in both cars. If I just wanted music I have an iPhone. I might miss the additional news channels but I wouldn’t pay for them. I pay for Howard and only for Howard.
Karmazin has ruined XM and probably the future of satellite radio. Whenever you need to ruin a creative business, put in an industry hack! I guess this is his reward for kissing Stern’s pimpled ass all these years!
Took 2 “disconnects” from Sirius employees but finally canceled. Wasn’t worth it before and now definitely isn’t. Hey Mel drool over that.