Are you Sirius?

Howard Stern, about whom LAGuy wrote earlier, is reportedly making 500 million bucks over 5 years. This is what I heard on the radio today, and despite the enormous power of the computer in front of me, have not fully checked out. How many subscribers does Sirius radio have anyway? It would take a lot of movement for Howard to bring that many people with him to pay radio. Is this destined to failure? Now granted I have a completely different perception of Mr. Stern from having only briefly been exposed to his "honesty" when his show played on local cable TV. But regardless of whether you love him or hate him, it seems noone can bring 500 million dollars worth of listeners into pay radioin 5 years. It will be interesting to see how this experiment in capitalism works out. (I'm sure Howard with a half a bil-, will be doing fine regardless.)