Sirius is offering a 2-day promotion (today and tomorrow) of free Internet radio to highlight Stern is now online. I just registered and it was quick and easy, without requiring a credit card number, though I doubt I’d ever go for a paid account at $12.95 a month… I get tons of free online music via Pandora, and AIM 6.0 even streams a decent amount of XM radio (also free). Why $12.95 you ask? Sirius would like to recoup some of their 500+ million dollar investment.
Orbitcast writes: The jury’s still out on whether or not consumers will actually respond to this “Howard Stern Worldwide” event, or that subscribers will actually sign up to an Internet-only service that costs the same as as the regular service. The standard consumer mindset is that anything over the Internet should be provided at a discount (or free).