I have Sirius. I will cancel. I’m totally serial.
2 companies.
I guess there is such a thing as too much competition.
Satellite radio must be really important. Other mergers sail right through, but not this one. Go figure.
What are congress and the FCC going to do? Make the companies split apart again?
Then some executive will make a contribution or two to the necessary lefty Senator, and no one will ever care again.
ROTFLOL!! Radio welfare!!
Goldman Sachs has all but killed both companies over the past week. I have been investing a long time but never seen a more corrupt attempt by politicians, FCC, National Association of Broadcasters, etc.. to kill two companies. Guys, and girls, this is your gov at work.
That would be CONSERVATIVES!
Interestingly little piece of political judo, there. The NAB originally opposed ANY establishment of satellite broadcasting, arguing it’d take customers from them. Now it’s opposing the merger, most likely because it figures they’ll both go under if they don’t merge.
Let me work through the logic of this....
The same people who didn’t listen to (Dead) Air America when it was on free radio are now expected to listen to it on satellite for a fee. That’s some business plan!
(snort) There aren’t enough hours in the day, for even a bed bound Media addict to listen to even more than a handful of channels. Fart America, even without much in the way of Liberal competition, drowned like a mute boy who fell overboard from the Titanic, miles before it hit the berg....
” Hello Hello Hello, Is there anybody out there?....”
Pay for radio? trend sheep.
As an XM subscriber, I’m already subjected to Err Amerika, the Oprah channel, Take Five, The Power, and XM Public Radio.
But I also get America’s Talk, America Right, Talk Radio, Fox News Talk, and Family Talk.
It all balances out.
Oh come on.
Nothing quite like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
As far as I can see, paid programming like XM/Sirius, is not going to be subject to the "fairness" doctrine if the RATs ever manage to resurrect that. And if Obama wins in November, look for it to be back less than 12 weeks after the coronation.
The article said they were going to set aside the channels. Big whoop. They will still be able to charge something for them. Or, even if bad comes to worse, and they have to give away the airtime for free, they don't have to subsidize the content.
No one listened when it was free, and no one is going to pay to listen to cr@p. Without a subsidy for content, liberals, community groups, and "underrepresented" groups are going to have a hard time competing.
Plus, one of the big reasons talk radio is so successful is that radio is the medium for people with jobs. The mindless unemployed watch TV, those with something worthwhile to do listen driving to work or sometimes at work. This is not a liberal audience.
If the price of having conservative pay radio is that they also carry liberal channels no one will listen to, that is the price and I am willing to pay it.
“To all: Please cancel your subscription if the Government forces left wing content —”
Will do.
“groups that are underrepresented in entertainment broadcasting” LOL
That’s a laugh.
Will conservatives get equal time OR ELSE!