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  • commented 2 years ago
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  • Another Crack in Sirius Business Model



    That crashing sound you hear is another piece of Sirius' business model falling apart. Sirius has got 3 three things going for it:

    - Decent radio content you can't find on other stations: sports, talk, Howard Stern

    - Penetration in car audio

    - Its own pipe to mobile users outside of cell towers

    Now that Slacker has teamed with ESPN on sports the first one just got weaker. Pandora has done a similar thing with the comedy stations they added. Still not comparable to Sirius content but it's a function of time. Sirius better hope that their pipes are needed by the mobile telcos because their walled garden of content is falling apart. [ less... ]
    Another Crack in Sirius Business Model [img width="532" height="414" title='Slacker Teams with ESPN' caption='']http://library.trefis.com.s3.amazonaws.com/29-slacker_teams_with_espn.png[/img] That crashing sound you hear is another piece of Sirius' business model falling apart. Sirius has got 3 three things going for it: - Decent radio content you can't find on other stations: sports, talk, Howard Stern - Penetration in car audio - Its own pipe to mobile users outside of cell towers Now that Slacker has teamed with ESPN on sports the first one just got weaker. Pandora has done a similar thing with the comedy stations they added. Still not comparable to Sirius content but it's a function of time. Sirius better hope that their pipes are needed by the mobile telcos because their walled garden of content is falling apart.



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