A new by research firm Bridge Ratings said it has detected a "softening interest by Stern listeners" in the idea of following Howard Stern to Sirius Satellite Radio and plunking down money to hear him on the satcaster's service. Bridge said in a release that its projection for the period October 2005 through February 2006 is now less than 1,300,000 new Sirius subscribers by the end of February 2006. In terms of raw numbers, Bridge now expects Sirius to add a total of 1.265 million new subscribers instead of 1.484 million by the end of January.

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