Justice Dept. OK's Sirius and XM merger

[Fatter than Joey]

I know this has been talked about in the past...

 

FCC still needs to sign off on it... Read about it here

 

 

EDIT: Spelling fix - Brian

[davego]

I've held Sirius stock for about 2 years. Selfishly, I'm going to be very happy if the FCC signs off on this.

[Brian the Automator]

I guess I'm not sure about it.... If it means anything more than a couple of dollar a month increase, I'm going to be unhappy about it...

[RyDogg66]

If/when this happens I will re-subscribe. I unvoluntarily unsubscribed when my car was broken into and everything was taken including my XM2go and Sirius radio system.

[Fatter than Joey]

I don't think subscriptions are going to go up -- I think people will be able to purchase things that they can't have access to right now.

 

This guy seems to think the subscription rate will drop.

[davego]

The idea is that both companies will offer more choices to subscribers. for example you can buy both the NFL and Baseball regardless of which receiver you own. Both claim they can be more efficient operating as one company. Not sure about that, but I suppose they are not going to be less efficient.

[Fatter than Joey]

Yeah -- the merger makes quite a bit of sense to me. They should have let Direct and Dish merge a few years ago.

[davego]

I wonder if Direct and Dish will look into it again if this one gets thru. I'm really torn on less competition in the market place; but hard to argue against more consumer choice and efficiency.

[brettac1]

As long as I can still hear O&A and Ron & Fez, I could care less.

[LouisEly]

I am very concerned because:

 

1) They better honor the Sirius lifetime subscription I bought a couple of years ago, and

 

B) Some cars, including mine, have a factory-installed satellite radio system and that better work for as long as I have this car. It's one thing to replace a little mobile receiver... it's another thing to replace a factory-installed antenna and receiver in a car (and that I paid $75 to switch the service from the old receiver to the car).

[brewcrewreview]

LouisEly,

I contacted Sirius about this a few months back because I have the lifetime subscription as well. They assured me they will honor the deal if the merger happens with all programming from XM and Sirius.

[Time for a Miller]

I guess I might need to resubscribe to XM then. I just wish they always played Uecker instead of the home town announcers. I remember just cringing at the Cubs "Homers" on the radio.

[Invader3K]

I think the merger is good...there is no way both services would survive "as is" right now, anyway. Their real competition is terrestrial radio and other mediums.