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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."
By reducing competition in satellite radio? No thanks.
sulli
RTFJ.
Oh, yeah, I'm from the NY area too. I bitch about Fox 5's news coverage every day; they seem to over-dramatize everything.
Competition? You mean after I rip out my factory radio and replace it with another radio, just to try out the other service, and then if I liked the first one....
If there was a broadcast standard there would be competition. Right now it's two proprietary semi-monopolies for most consumers.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I'm guessing that the category is marked "digital" in the submission interface, and the submitter is too young to remember DEC and thinks the category is for digital lifestyle devices.
Are you a moron? XM? Clear Channel? WTF are you smoking!?!? Whatever it is, keep away from me!
I really hope something like this doesn't happen.
I have Sirius, and I'm pleased as punch with it. I can't see how merging with XM (if the story is, in fact, true) would make things any better.
Sirius has some great stations with good DJs. The bigger you make the company, the more whitewashed it becomes. I don't know what XM is all about, but people who have it tell me they like it. That's fine. But a little compitition never hurt anyone. Monopolies, on the other hand, usually don't work, espically with something as subjective as music.
The Internet is generally stupid
..and Bungie said there was no deal with Microsoft days before they were bought out. Point being, you cannot trust business press releases..EVER.. they have no obligation to tell you the truth and they may very well be under some form of NDA...
IIRC, Clear Channel has so little stake left in XM, they are no longer on the Board of Directors and no longer have any influence in the direction XM takes. To me, that sounds like a very small part. Insignificant really.
For proof... I think this will suffice...
And Carly is starting to take lots of flak about it too. Go look at http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=HPQ
.. you guessed it: axed the other one.
So why, EXACTLY, did we buy compaq?
Alpha?..NOPE its a "sunset business" (read: carly's axe swings)
Tru64?..NOPE, "the ROI is too low" (read: Carly's axe swings.)
To grab their market share in PCs?...NOPE, that lasted what, 1 or 2 quarters?
To enhance our product line?...NOPE, if HP and CPQ were selling the same product, we picked the better of the 2 and
So, as near as I can tell, the only reason we bought Compaq was so carly could fire a bunch of people and eliminate a competitor that was already dying..
just my $0.02 worth
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oh wait, this thread was about Sirius and XM.. sorry