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XM and Sirius is fee for service and on a specific narrow band. They’re not public airwaves. I suppose Obama could charge exhorbinant fees to launch anynew sats but I think the French would be happy to pick up the slack. I expect Sirius XM will be where Rush and Sean and a few others will wind up. At that time I’ll sign up for sat radio.

The recent permission to merge Sirius/XM came from the FCC. Part of the deal was the allocation of more "channels" where liberal drivel will have access...likely at a reduced rate, but certainly subsidized by paying customers. Similar to bundling of shopping, sports and music channels on cable whether you want to pay for them or not. As a consumer, I'll check the product and price. If it doesn't measure up, it will be off my list of bills. Right now, I enjoy listening to Levin on XM166 or Sirius144 depending on which vehicle I'm using. Our 2008 Mercury Mariner came with a Sirius radio. Previously, I put the XM SkyFi into the old Escape 4x4. We'll just have to see how things pan out.