You could be right about the merger creating a monopoly. But if one of them ends up bankrupt & off the air won't that create a monopoly too. The way they are burning through cash,I don't think they can both survive alone.

No Company With the Rights To SATRADs Rules, And 8 Million Checks A Month @ 13.00, Goes Off The Air, Believe Me.
Thier Are 8-10 Million XM Receivers Out Thier, Logic Tells Everyone, Worse Case, Reciver Runs Operation, Till New Buyer Step In.
ALSO, GM Is XMs Largest Partner,
So No Radios Go Silent, Or Satelites Get Turned Off.
REMEMBER, Parrsons Has Already Stated " We Don't Have To Do This Deal"
They Have Made It Clear To The FCC, Poverty Is Not Part Of The Arguement For Merger.
It's About One Thing, The Combined Value Of Two Stocks, Has A Higher Value Then The Two Alone.
My Fear, The Combined Company Stock, Reaches It's Peak, And nstitutions, Who Own Lion's Share--DUMP.
And The Market Is Stuck With This Merger, And Government Regulations (Price Caps On Subscription)
Which Mel Will Give The Government To Allow This Merger.--Unbelievable--A CEO That Wants Government Regulation Of Price.
EMIL J KOVACH JR

EMIL J KOVACH JR

Well the thing that I find completely different of the XM-Sirius deal vs the other echostar- dish deal is in the exclusive content deals.

With either TV proviser, I could watch pretty much the same channels on TV and get the same programs. Really, a merger would just mean that there was 1 company, with the exact same programming.


With the XM-Sirius merger, each company has exclusive deals. As it stands, I can hear Oprah on XM, but if I want to hear Howard Stern, I have to subscribe to Sirius. How is this good for me? I want to listen to both programs on 1 radio with 1 subscription!

In the end, with the TV deals, the Satelite companies did not own and operate the TV networks, but with SatRad, XM and Sirius actually
own and operate a lot of their content stations. The comaprission may be similar but it really is not exactly the same at all.

I would love a merger if the price could be controled. I recently purchased a new car and I had no choice but to take sirius. I wanted major league baseball but that is on XM. The merger would give the concumer the best of two worlds