{"id":180,"date":"2006-10-04T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2006-10-17T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T14:36:41","slug":"sirius-satellite-radio-passes-51-million-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Sirius Satellite Radio Passes 5.1 Million Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I am taking more interest in news about Sirius after I became a subscriber myself a bit over a month ago.  It&#8217;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&#8217;t really satisfied with the offerings found on terrestrial radio these days.<\/p>\n<p>Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) stock shot up in early morning trading to 4.15 from a close yesterday of 4.00.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/investor.sirius.com\/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=213347&#038;cat=&#038;newsroom=\">read more<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/business_finance\/Sirius_Satellite_Radio_Passes_5_1_Million_Subscribers\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sirius Satellite Radio Passes 5.1 Million Subscribers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}