Dr. Remulac

Sirius XM Works Hard to Reduce February Debt

"...improve our balance sheet"
"...employed by us..."

Tyler, are you speaking as an employee or as a shareholder?

Finally Some Good News for Sirius Shareholders

Many companies have employed the use of reverse stocks and have come back. But I don't believe it was the reverse that saved them. They were large companies that could not fail basically due to their humongous size. I'm not saying the reverse split will save SIRI, but I do believe SIRI will survive. A reverse split is a smaller issue, and deserves a little less attention.

There are bigger SIRI fish to fry. I would like to see Mel Karmazin step up to a microphone and state his exact plan to manage the debt. I no longer want to hear "We are working on it". There is no downside to making debt refinance plans public. Why is there nothing to dissuade shareholder fears? To be so quiet and aloof smacks of fear and deperation. I don't want to hear about cost savings (Show them to us! A few layoffs aren't too impressive), synergies (Nothing worth noting has been synergized!) and EBITDA (I want to know how much we'll make AFTER ITDA!).

Also, what's this crap mentioned in yesterday's BusinessWeek article ( www.businessweek.com/m... ) about DOUBLING the number of shares? That's kinda new! Anybody know what our shares will be worth if that gets approved? Doesn't mean much if you're holding from the upper ranges, but why continue to hold if you KNOW it's gonna get diluted?

This stock is going nowhere until investors' worries about the outstanding debt is satisfied. Period. They could say they made a buttload of money last quarter, layoff more employees and sell Howard Stern's hair on eBay for all I care. I want this debt paid down or refinanced to something feasibly manageable. Now. And I'm not voting to approve more shares to get there. Do it the old-fashioned way, Mel. Be the CEO. I don't want to be your buddy. Your exemplary past in this business no longer impresses me.

Why Isn't There a Sirius iPod?

I AM serious, and why does it have any bearing on whether Apple has a monopoly on .... whatever you mean? It doesn't have to be on an iPod. Sirius has opened up the door to third-party development of devices. You wouldn't like to have a device you wouldn't need to upload files to? You wouldn't like a device and a service that knows what you like and gives it to you?

Why Isn't There a Sirius iPod?

But what I want is for Sirius to remember what I like and play more of it. I don't want to have to store things on the device.

Why Isn't There a Sirius iPod?

The real killer app will combine the functionality of the iPod, Sirius service, and the personalization that Pandora or Slacker offer. Here's my vision, check it out. You turn on your iPod-like device and you punch in a name of a band, creating a "radio station" playlist like on Pandora or Slacker. Then, if a song you like comes on you hit the "Favorites" button. If you don't like it you press the "Ban" button. You eventually have an ever-updating playlist of songs fed to your device live every time you power it on.

The only thing is, I suspect Slacker or Pandora are already working on such a service. And they may not need Sirius to deliver the content. They would get more global coverage by working with the mobile phone industry, which has more coverage. But if they could swing it with Sirius, they could add their content to the feature set.

Any way, THAT is what I would like to see. That is the device I would want for Christmas. Not an iPod that requires my constant attention, as the author here demonstrates.

Jim Cramer's Unnecessary Beating Over Sirius

The real lesson here is that nobody is going to do research on a stock any better than you can do for yourself. Any blame game played by any investor is a futile attempt at denial. YOU bought it. Not Jim Cramer. Even if Jim Cramer went on his show and spent an hour shouting "YOU MUST BY THIS STOCK! IT IS GOING TO MAKE YOU FILTHY RICH!", it is YOUR fault when it doesn't come to fruition. Adult game. Adult decisions. Do you want your adult decision made by a guy on TV selling soap, throwing things, pushing sound effect buttons? The timing of his opinions against the timing of the financing and merger silliness is inconsequential. The point is, as the author explains, is that nobody saw what the company had to do with refinancing coming except Mel Karmazin, whom I hold culpable in the least for not warning shareholders of his "sudden" plan. Don't tell me he didn't have advance notice. Those plans don't just land in his lap in a few minutes. He held back so the stock price wouldn't take as big a nosedive. The FCC was the facilitator for the conditions, but it was Mel that executed the deal that dropped the stock price to 1.50. Not like it wasn't already struggling, but that was a big drop in a small amount of time, and I blame Mel Karmazin and his executive staff for engineering the post-merger dip. Bad form, in my opinion.

Why Did Adelstein Reverse His Position on the SIRI-XM Merger?

You start this article out by trying to paint yourself as a neutral observer, but your comments sound just like a lot of the crazy people on the message boards that spit absurdities in numerous threads that go nowhere. How does a la cart pricing cover diversity in programming? Those are unrelated things. And that "translation" is a good example of the unreasonable hatred being spread throughout those same message boards. It's unpalatable to read unless you're another one of the crazed mob that applaudes anybody that writes long articles in favor of their hatred for the FCC.

I can appreciate that your comments are opinion and don't have to carry any burden for real proof. But really, you could've done better than to pander to a bunch of ticked-off shareholders (all 100 shares they account for). Look deeper and you may see more nefarious activity to report. This article is just a longer, more public version of a message board rant. Take a look at the rest of your comments on this article. Your fans of this article are the same all-caps crowd that posts this junk all day on Yahoo. No real substance. Just a keyboard vomit.