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July 05, 2005
XM Adds 640,000 Subscribers - best second quarter in history
On Friday, XM Satellite Radio announced that they’ve added 640,000 new net subscribers in the second quarter.
This brings their total number up to 4.4 Million subscribers - doubling their subscriber base in one year - a rapid growth that no analysts expected at all.
Rumor has it that Sirius Satellite Radio may uncharacteristically be releasing their subscriber numbers this week. I expect Sirius to have an incredible quarter as well driven by their rebate promotion. We shall see.
July 5, 2005 12:39 PM
Comments
Congrats to XM! This shows that Satellite Radio is more popular and has a brighter future than a lot of people ever expected!
Posted by: Tyler at July 5, 2005 02:08 PM
i like the fact that XM (and Sirius) are growing faster than ever. But whenever i listen to terrestrial radio im surprised that there arent 20 million subscribers already.
Posted by: rio at July 5, 2005 08:17 PM
Woo Hoo!
Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2005 10:04 PM
The growth is due to the Canada & Japanese content to be made available on XM. Down with liquid metal.
Posted by: dave rivers at July 6, 2005 07:58 AM
