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I hope people check out the JFK episode you did. That was a great episode.

BTW: Do you know if the 800 number work outside the US? I don't think so = why no Euros called.

Quote from: williedee on November 12, 2013, 12:49:02 PM
the trouble seemed to stem from the way the player was designed (having the 5 hour replay available is probably a big one)

the only other technical issue would be that they didn't have enough servers provisioned to host his stream

Its all about platform and knowledge.
They can have 10000000000000 windows servers and it would never work. I know. I have been in the business for over 20 years with servers that always are online. (accepted 99.9999%).

The IT business is the business with the most incompetent people. At least 90% working with it have zero clue. They have no idea what an IF/AND/OR gate is. They only know about Windows and clicking some windows.
The sad thing is that these people often are becomes IT chefs and/or CEOs. Just look at Nokia and how Microsoft Stephen Elop destroyed the world largest cell phone company in just a couple of years. I worked at Ericsson when they where nr1 in the world and they hired a MSFT guy. Less then 5 years later from nr1 to out of business.

Sirius don't even have huge loads on their servers. When they offered free streaming for a week they had on average 100K unique listeners per day. Thats nothing.

Sirius under Mel was an incompetent company. Maybe John Malone can fix it.

Quote from: From Somewhere Out There on November 15, 2013, 12:50:12 PM
You are the best. You hold the cards and no matter what they say, do not sign a NC. The powers to be are only interested in profit. You are guaranteed profit to them and when push comes to shove they will do whatever you want.

How to the powers do profit from a non-compete?

Are they afraid that Art will launch satellites and take SiriusXM 20+ million subscribers?

Sirius should show some class and let Art go without non-compete.

If this was radio, I could understand non-compete. Then Art could go to another station and compete, but there is no other satellite company for Art to sign up on and compete from.

Quote from: Mind Flayer Monk on November 12, 2013, 08:19:57 AM
It was 75k per year and then some unknown % from the ccrane and other "Art" advertisements he read.

75K?
And they pay Howard 80 million + 60% of the advertising.

Its insane. Howard raked in over 900 million from Sirius during his first 5 years. (500 million base, 28 million merger bonus, 330 million subscriber bonus + 30-50% of the advertising). And Sirius pays a legend like Art 75K?