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Hope they keep baseball; one of the reasons I got XM.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/25/AR2008052501702.html

>>XM Radio's search for financing comes in the midst of a tight credit environment as well as its efforts to merge with Sirius. The Justice Department cleared the marriage in March, and the deal awaits final regulatory approval by the Federal Communications Commission. After a long-delayed review of the merger, which was announced in February 2007, FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin said the commission may reach an agreement by the end of June.

Under their merger agreement, XM and Sirius are restricted in their ability to incur additional debt financing beyond existing credit lines and are limited in the amount of new equity they can issue without first getting each other's approval.

1 posted on 05/27/2008 7:43:07 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio
I was able to hear the Yankees fall behind, then lose, to the Orioles yesterday on XM.


2 posted on 05/27/2008 7:45:16 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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XM is in need of $120 million of financing - to pay for baseball

That sounds

3 posted on 05/27/2008 7:46:30 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: raccoonradio

As much as I love XM, and baseball on XM - it doesn’t seem to me that this is a business model that is viable.

I’ll miss it when it finally does fold.


6 posted on 05/27/2008 8:01:48 AM PDT by jtal
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To: raccoonradio

They spent too much on Oprah.


7 posted on 05/27/2008 8:03:18 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: raccoonradio

I heard this morning on the radio that the MLB was sending out cease and dessit orders to liitle leaguers using MLB team names such as Red Socks, Giants, Cardinals, etc.
MLB can go out of business.


8 posted on 05/27/2008 8:04:36 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: raccoonradio
Time to start a pool to bet where on earth the XM Satellites crash to the ground.
10 posted on 05/27/2008 11:13:58 AM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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