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Freepmail me to be added.
Clear Channel can own 1,200 radio stations in the U.S. that these two companies have to compete with, yet their merger is a monopoly?
How much competition will there be if one goes belly up!
If they don't merge, one or both of them will eventually go out of business because there will NEVER be an overwhelming demand for satellite radio because, in the end, it's just the same old non-interactive radio that Marconi invented.
Mobile broadband in some form, be it via satellite or WIFI, can do subscription radio and the rest of the Internet, and the technology is already being deployed.
Sirius and XM cost more than my dialup connection, and my dialup connection is a lot more useful.
I would bet a thousand dollars that this "group of law students" who had this study created is in some way associated with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).
This smells like a put up job.
Their basic argument is flawed - they claim satellite subscribers would be harmed when in fact for the same money they will get all the content from both services.
They are both losing money hand over fist and consolidation would allow economies of scale. They compete with local broadcasters, IPODs and cell phone musics services - there is plenty of competition.
John Ashcroft prostituted himself to XM before being rebuffed. He then chose to lobby on behalf of the NAB against the merger, which shows what a complete sellout scumbag Ashcroft really is. Pathetic and disgusting. What a whore. And I used to defend the guy. No more.
Um, what dictionary did they use for their study? I could have done the study for free at www.dictionary.com
I bet it took 20million dollars.
What about the dozen-or-so years XM was around, by itself, before the genesis of Sirius?
First of all, they'll be a stronger competitor in the radio market together than separately.
Second, they're planning to sell some of their satellite space so they won't be a monopoly.
2.Satellite radio will be gone in 5 years.
3. I used to subscribe but I got rid of it. $13 a month to listen to filth? Forget it.
NOTE: This is sarcasm. Getting the inane talking points out of the way.
(I left off sarcasm tags last time, and got peppered, lol!)
Well, then let the merger proceed and regulate the crap out of it.
Did a few thousand FM and AM radio stations close down recently?
The MSM,Universities,Hollywood,Music industries, non profits are a monopoly so break them all up.
Talkers Magazine had him at 2.25 million weekly listeners in late 2006. For comparison, Opie & Anthony had 1 million and G. Gordon Liddy was at 1.5 million.