Sirius today announced that it ended the third quarter with 5,119,308 subscribers, 135% above third quarter 2005 ending subscribers of 2,173,920. SIRIUS added 441,101 net subscribers in the third quarter of 2006, a 23% increase over year-ago third quarter net subscriber additions.
I am taking more interest in news about Sirius after I became a subscriber myself a bit over a month ago. It’s good to see that the number of subscribers is increasing. I wonder how many of these subscribers are there for Howard Stern and then how many have other reasons. Myself, I just wanted to be able to listen to a lot of stuff and wasn’t really satisfied with the offerings found on terrestrial radio these days.
Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) stock shot up in early morning trading to 4.15 from a close yesterday of 4.00.