Amen. They should not let them merge, if htey don’t, those companies will probably go out of business. NASCAR and other sports would go back on the normal radio. Potty mouthed entertainers like Howard Stern would end up in oblivion. And who cares if there’s not a place to listen to some obscure song from from Foghat or some eyeliner wearing punk rocker from Seattle that no one’s ever heard of?
Raises his hand...
I would care, quite a bit, in fact.
Discovering new types of music and rediscovering forgotten hits are but two of the joys of satellite radio.
Satellite radio puts the joy back into radio. Pure and simple...
P.S. MRN and PRN have terrestrial affiliates in most major cities - satellite is not your only option to listen to the race.
Well alot of us LOVE our satellite radios. My stations are rarely off the talk radio stations. No one is making you pay for it if you don’t want it. You’d rather they go bankrupt so none of us would have the choice apparently.
That’s a pretty authoritarian statement on a pro-freedom web site.
Every one of you misses the bigger point here.
The reason Democrats such as Kerry don’t want the merger is because they want both companies to go out of business.
Why? Fairness Doctrine.
The Democrats will put the Fairness Doctrine back in once they have the WH and Congress.
Of course, this will put a crimp in conservative radio. Those hosts will need a place to do their shows...satellite radio.
Do you understand now?
On the other hand, you are aware that a number of conservative talk shows and hosts will lose much if not all of their audience if XM and Sirius die, right?
“And who cares if there’s not a place to listen to some obscure song from from Foghat or some eyeliner wearing punk rocker from Seattle that no one’s ever heard of?”
I care that I am able to listen to the Metropolitan Opera any time I want, or cooking classes, or a whole station of kids’ songs which keep my kids singing while I drive, or EWTN and 3 stations of gospel music and I’m willing to pay for it.