[URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=2887179"]The satellite radio providers will announce a "merger of equals" later today, ABC News has confirmed. Sirius chief Mel Karmazin will lead the new firm.[/URL]
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XM & Sirius Satellite Radios To Merge
30 durable postsStarted 2007-02-19Latest 2008-03-27
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why would they let the sirius guy run the group? he fucked up sirius, to the point where XM is killing them.
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[QUOTE]The merger would require regulatory approval as well as anti-trust scrutiny.
Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, reportedly said last month that a merger could not be approved under current FCC regulations.[/QUOTE]
Kinda wondered about this myself. Kinda hard to believe that this wouldn't be anti-competitive, so the antitrust lawyer in me thinks this is a horrible idea.
That said, as a user of both XM and Sirius, I'm pretty happy to hear about this, at least in theory. I've found that there are some things that Sirius does better, and some things that XM does better. I really hope they take the best of both worlds rather than just going with the programming from one or the other.
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hmmm maybe this will actually allow these guys to finally start making some profit...
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i don't think there is an anti-competition argument to be made, since its such a new line of business. once these two are merged, I can definitely see another media player getting involved, especially if the profitability materializes like it should. there aren't enough barriers to entry to keep people out for long...
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Why would they want to come together i mean i could see XM buying them out.....
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[QUOTE=day_for_night;446757]i don't think there is an anti-competition argument to be made, since its such a new line of business. once these two are merged, I can definitely see another media player getting involved, especially if the profitability materializes like it should. there aren't enough barriers to entry to keep people out for long...[/QUOTE]
Well, that's not really the standard, though. Starting with the assumption that satellite radio is its own distinct market (which is not self-evident, BTW), this merger would represent the consolidation of an entire market in one player -- and a consolidation that occurs not because one player gets knocked out as a result of competition, but because the players have decided that it is better for them to combine efforts than compete.
If they want to get this through, they are going to have to convince the FTC that they compete in a broader market than just competing against one another -- which is a bit of a tough sell, IMO -- or that the barriers to entry are so low that additional competition in the satellite radio market is imminent.
Remember that DirecTV and Dish -- which actually compete with cable as well and are therefore in a broader market than Sirius and XM -- have tried to merge on at least one occasion in the past, and that merger was blocked because of the likely anticompetitive impact. It is, at a minimum, something that you can expect regulators to look at really hard.
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Not interested.
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Agreed. Not interested. It's a great way to lose money if you're a shareholder.
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I think it is great for the Sirius & XM users alike because as a subscriber you get the content of both providers for the same price, I am a Sirius subscriber and am excited for this.
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it's not a monopoly.
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[QUOTE=88Mariner;446895]it's not a monopoly.[/QUOTE]
please elaborate
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[QUOTE=Nigel Harkness;446889]I think it is great for the Sirius & XM users alike because as a subscriber you get the content of both providers for the same price, I am a Sirius subscriber and am excited for this.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I really hope it works out this way. Like I said earlier, I like Sirius for some things and XM for others. Would be great to just have one service that has it all...
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I just wish I could get back to listening to XM80 when I want. Tons of great shows on there. Def Mix, Thump Radio, D:Fuse Show. and a bunch of others...i guess i'll have to get Directv again.
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approved
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/24/siriusxm-merger-gets-fed_n_93133.html[/url]
:D
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sirius kicks the shit out of XM.
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jibgolly is going to beat your ass for resurecting an old post
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I dont look at thread create date, I just reply...
would you rather have 3 duplicate threads or one that is updated every 3 months?. :-P
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oh i'm seeing the news now on Drudge. nm. sorry.
this is great news for the world of radio. particularly fantastic news in fact.
I hope it breeds competitors.
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woot. called it.
i should retire and just predict things :p
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lmao 88....
in toasty's case (and i would expect this from a user such as he is) he is completely right in updating old news in the way he did. this is interesting, and i honestly dont remember reading this thread when it was originally posted. so it's all new(s) to me again. ;)
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I am looking forward to XM80. Kinda beats Sirius Area 33, imo.
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Anyone know what is going to happen to the MLB channels (if anything)?
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^ not sure, but i'm hoping MLB goes on strike again.
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I like Sirius for rock stations, but prefer XM for the dance music stations.
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[quote=|Thrax|;581447]sirius kicks the shit out of XM.[/quote]
Not true...if they are now the same company.
I'm glad to hear they are finally allowed to do what businesses do...do business.
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ok, ok.. i give up....
now, may I have more really cool channels? :)
plz
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was listening to a commentary on this on my local radio classical station, they were talking about the merger, but the bad things are they would most likely get rid of one of the jazz stations and the kids programming. Now I can't understand why they would get rid of some wonderful stuff like Jazz...as long as it's the real jazz and not that smooth jazz crap. But they can have twenty channels of top 40 shit.
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Both XM and Sirius have multiple jazz stations. Perhaps they are going to drop some of the stations that would be duplicative of one another, i.e., consolidate the stations with the exact same format.
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I hope that they bring baseball and O & A over to the merger so that I can have Stern, O&A, NFL & MLB man oh man that sounds lovely