The Motley Fool has poignant article on XM’s Q305 report, focusing especially on the Q305 loss versus the Q304 loss ($131.9 million vs $118 million respectively). Spin it anyway you want, a loss is a loss and it stinks no matter what.

Fool.com has it’s ups and downs in my book though, especially when it comes to the satellite radio industry. Sometimes they seem to come out with decent articles… this one isn’t necessarily one of them. If you’re hell bent on reading an anti-XM (and anti-SIRIUS for that matter) article, then go ahead and read this and wallow in the filth. The tone of the article is overall negative — I wonder if they wrote it just after listening to the XM Conference Call? Listening to that didn’t necessarily make me all that excited about XM either.

XM Satellite Radio ended 3Q05 with 5,034,642 subscribers, doubling the 2,516,023 subscribers for last year’s third quarter. The growth was driven by third quarter net subscriber additions of 617,152, a 48% increase over the same period last year (415,671 new net subscribers). Given its performance for this year, XM reaffirmed its guidance of exceeding 6 million subscribers by the end of 2005.

XM Satellite Radio has scheduled a conference call on Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 10:00 AM ET for the announcement and discussions of their 3Q05 financial results.

To listen to the conference call via telephone, call 877-265-5808 (or 706-679-7931 if you’re local) approximately 10 minutes prior to the planned start of the call. You’ll also be able to listen to the webcast here.

Radio Ink reports that Kagan Research is predicting the satellite radio industry as a whole will reach cash-flow postive in 2008. Brilliant! This incredible insight is brought to us in full detail in Kagan’s Datebook Satellite Radio Outlook 2005: Analysis and Projections for the Industry.

It truly amazes me the level of repetition these analysts can regurgitate over and over, yet using different words they can charge for it all over again! Earlier this year, Kagan gave us an eye-opening discovery that XM will reach positive cash flow by 2007 and Sirius will likely do so in 2008. Brilliant!