Sirius (SIRI): Firing The CEO Does Nothing

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The latest chess move in the game to get control of Sirius XM (SIRI) is that the creditors are threatening to fire CEO Mel Karmazin if he takes the company into Chapter 11.

The Wall Street Journal reports that “A group of Sirius XM Radio Inc. creditors says it is prepared to seek the ouster of Chief Executive Mel Karmazin and other senior executives if the company files for bankruptcy instead of cutting a deal with an investor that would allow it to remain solvent.”

The action will come a little late for creditors who will see most of the value of their debt destroyed in court proceedings.

Creditors do not seem to want to accept the inevitable.  Sirius is almost surely dead, certainly as a public company and perhaps as a viable entity of any kind.

The satellite radio company relies heavily on new car sales to build its subscription base and that means its years of growth may be at an end.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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