{"id":559,"date":"2004-01-15T04:01:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/satellite-radio-taking-off\/"},"modified":"2004-01-15T04:01:21","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T09:01:21","slug":"satellite-radio-taking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/satellite-radio-taking-off\/","title":{"rendered":"satellite radio taking off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ars technica explores the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news\/posts\/1073794067.html\">satellite radio boom<\/a>.  it&#8217;s not a huge boom (yet) &#8211; sirius ended 2002 with just under 30, 000 subscribers,  xm ended 2002 with just under 350, 000, so that&#8217;s a 380,000-subscriber base.  at $10\/month, it makes a $45.6 million\/year business, with huge sunk costs on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>what&#8217;s notable is the growth &#8211; xm went from 28,000 to 350,000 subscribers during 2003, and is making a push to get to a million by the end of this year&#8230; there&#8217;s a lot to chew on here, but i think this is a strong validation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/active_versus_passive_music_consumption.html\">passive listener model<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ars technica explores the satellite radio boom. it&#8217;s not a huge boom (yet) &#8211; sirius ended 2002 with just under 30, 000 subscribers, xm ended 2002 with just under 350, 000, so that&#8217;s a 380,000-subscriber base. at $10\/month, it makes a $45.6 million\/year business, with huge sunk costs on infrastructure. what&#8217;s notable is the growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}