Declining Sales
I, personally, subscribed to Sirius after it announced the Howard Stern signing. I believe, in my opinion, that the deliningsales of radios (aside from those in cars) was due in large part to the merger and how long the process took. I am sure the same thing happened during the Echo Star & Dish Networks merger talks (ed. hope I'm getting the two companies correct). No one was sure how the merger was going to pan out, so they kept a holding pattern. I feel that now that the merger is comlpeted, you'll see an increase in the sales of the radios.
That said, I like the service. It's refreshing to hear broadcasters actually be 'human', letting a curse slip out every once in a while (depending on what you listen to). The comedy channels are uncensored, so you can hear a Ricahrd Pryor or Geogre Carlin skit the way it was intedned to be heard.