{"id":93,"date":"2006-03-20T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:04:31","slug":"sirius-crosses-4-million-subscriber-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/sirius-crosses-4-million-subscriber-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirius crosses 4 million subscriber mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/sirius_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4384 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Sirius Satellite Radio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/sirius-satellite-tops-4-million-subscribers-1356378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced yesterday<\/a> that they crossed the 4 million subscriber mark. It took them a little over 3 months to grow from 2 million (September 15th, 2005) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna10616017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3 million<\/a> (December 27th, 2005). It took less than 3 months for Sirius to go from 3 million to 4 million (March 20th, 2006). If they keep up this growth rate, Sirius would end the year with over 7 million subscribers. <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q\/bc?s=SIRI&amp;t=5d&amp;l=on&amp;z=m&amp;q=l&amp;c=\">Sirius&#8217; stock<\/a> is up significantly over the last week on this news. XM reached <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061028235157\/http:\/\/www.orbitcast.com\/archives\/xm-satellite-radio-tops-six-million-subscribers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6 million<\/a> on January 4th, so they will need to announce something about passing 7 million in the next week or so to keep pace with Sirius.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirius Satellite Radio announced yesterday that they crossed the 4 million subscriber mark. It took them a little over 3 months to grow from 2 million (September 15th, 2005) to 3 million (December 27th, 2005). It took less than 3 months for Sirius to go from 3 million to 4 million (March 20th, 2006). If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-satellite-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}