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Originally Posted by ken0042
Madman's gif says it all. While the XM birds stay above the equator, the Sirius ones appear to to a figure 8. So that means that anything with a greater than 30 degree from level hight will block XM, Sirius at it's lowest point to us is over Minnesota. So closer to 60 or 70 degrees is needed to block the signal.
But regarding the bankrupcy, I guess I'm glad I'm only month to month. However I think this might be a move to get rid of huge salaries (like Stern.) A bankrupcy order will allow them to continue a lower cost operation like providing music and comedy. It might even allow them to sell one or two of their satellite; because do they really need 5 up there now?
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To be honest, their problem isn't paying a guy like stern a lot of money, he brought a lot of subscribers. If Stern wasn't on satelite I'd never ever listen, their music programming is terrible. They got rid of the punk channel, so there's no need for me to even listen to their music anymore, (yes I know faction plays punk, but they mix in rap and other crap with very mediocre punk music).
Their problem is they paid people like Martha Stewart, Jamie Foxx, and Oprah a TON of money, and they provide very little content for what they are being paid, and I don't think anybody signed up to listen to their channels.