XM and Sirius Merger?

chipset writes "Well, it seems Sirius and XM are in talks again. This story from FoxNews indicates they are in merger discussions and want to expand their reach into all communications from space. This includes Cell, Music, and TV. I would love to see something like this take place. Give DirecTV and DishNetwork a little competition."

Comments

Uh, no

[Anonymous Coward]

Sirius CEO says no merger.

Re:Give DirecTV and Dish a little competition?!?!?

[savagedome]

I think the Sirius CEO denied the marger.

http://www.forbes.com/2005/01/26/0126autofacescan0 4.html/

False.

[LordJezo]

Nope. Sorry.
http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news /business/digital/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_ id=1000777229

Re:Give DirecTV and Dish a little competition?!?!?

[FrYGuY101]

Don't worry.

It's a hoax.

Not true says Mel!

[Stubtify]

http://www.forbes.com/2005/01/26/0126autofacescan0 4.html all the lovely details on the official response to this merger. The story broke this morning and not an hour later Mel Karmazin (Sirius CEO) had a response out. Its up to you to decide if that's spin control or the truth.

Really?

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves]

I flipped past Fox News just a few minutes ago and they reported that the president of XM had no idea where this story came from.

Rumor Denied

[spin2cool]

Yep - the denial was reported earlier today on several sources:
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Re:they would give traditional media good competit

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearchannel knows this and that is why they own a large percentage of one of the companies. XM I think.

Repeat after me: Clear Channel no longer owns any substantial percentage of XM.

Re:Huh?

[jerw134]

Actually, ClearChannel sold off their entire share of XM a while ago.

Re:they would give traditional media good competit

[jerw134]

ClearChannel used to own part of XM, but they don't anymore.

Re:Why the DEC logo?

[tverbeek]

{sigh} Last summer I had to explain this to my new 24-year-old coworker, who thought it was funny that one of our computer labs was full of old computers that bragged (with the above logo) about being "digital", as if that was some kind of fancy feature or something. The first computer I ever logged into was a PDP, I got most of my formal CS education using VAXen, and I even went to DECUS back in the early 90's, so it was a bit painful having to explain to him what DEC was, and that it was founded back when "digital equipment" was something pretty fancy.