sirius
Sirus-
XM charges for access to its Sirius Music Player, but for the past few days, some customers can't get it to work. One of them
in this forum says it only connects after
Howard Stern is over, and speculates that some cost-cutting measures have reduced available bandwidth, leading to locked-out customers. In another thread customers are complaining that popular third-party streaming radio services have been sent
cease-and-desist letters from Sirius, further limiting access to streaming Sirius programming online. Naturally, Sirius-XM hasn't responded to customer queries about the issue.
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bankruptcy
Liberty Media, the owner of DirecTV, has swooped in at the last minute to save Sirius from certain bankruptcy. Liberty will invest a $530 million in the form of
loans to the
satellite radio company, $175 million of which will go to paying debt that comes due for Sirius today.
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sinus blaster
The first ad featuring rank, unbleeped obscenity has aired on the
Sirius network. The product? Appropriately enough, a nasal inhalant featuring capsaicin called Sinus Blaster.
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readers
Rebates are scams. Rebates are scams. We'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that
rebates are scams.
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Consumerist
