Satellite Radio

What Are your thoughts on the Siruis/XM merger?

I don’t ask many questions but I have one for you all! As we enter November, you will see the Sirius and XM satellite radio merger in the news more and more. My question is… What do you think about the merger? I personally think that if they don’t merge Clear channel communications will buy XM. However, I think programming will go down once they merge. And jobs will be cut. But I always remember that we will still get the best in music and entertainment they can’t mess it up that bad. What do you think?
I forgot about price. They are supposed to lower prices however I find this to be a monopoly situation, they are free to do what they wish but they are trying to compete with Free radio. I don’t see a price increase in the merger. However, if they don’t merge i see prices going up in the future.

With everything I’ve been reading the past week, I think it’s in the bag. As another poster stated, it is the only way satellite radio will survive. Both companies are still in the red, so this is their only hope at cutting costs (trimming the number of programmers, terrestrial repeater locations, et al). As far as programming, not much will change in the near future. People who subscribe to XM now will continue to get their same channels (just maybe programmed by a Sirius programmer), and vice versa.

Yes, there probably will be some decline in the programming, but the alternative is for satellite radio to fold altogether. I don’t think they can really raise subscription costs or add commercials on the music channels without losing subscribers like crazy. There are alternatives out there for music. it is just the talk/entertainment that listeners can’t get elsewhere, and I don’t know that satellite radio can survive on this alone.

Maybe for the Howard Stern fans, but he has a finite contract and he will probably retire when that is up (forget how long his contract is for). Other than that, commercial-free music is satellite radio’s biggest draw and adding commercials would be its death.

Howard Stern – Jesse Ventura on 9/11 Pt2

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