XM and Sirius Merging

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02-24-2007, 02:12 AM

BigBird01

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XM and Sirius Merging

Well from what I read on the XM website they are merging. So seems like we all get the best of both worlds. I have XM now and I love it I hope it stays great.

Where I got the info from.

http://www.xmradio.com/merger/index.xmc#newradios

02-24-2007, 02:21 AM

emerlin

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That would be nice. I am not buying in until there's a clear winner. I bought Betamax, you know...

02-24-2007, 02:38 AM

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I have Sirius...I just hope the signal strength gets better when they merge.

02-24-2007, 04:21 AM

Shawnee

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Since I have both XM and Sirius that might be a good thing

02-24-2007, 06:41 AM

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I personally think that they will remain seperate services, kinda like sprint/nextel. They stand to make more money if you have to choose one or the other, but I dont think the government is going to like it much because they are the only two sattelite radio companies and that is a huge monopilization. Id be surprised if the gov. allowed such a transaction.

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02-24-2007, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by stevedb28

I personally think that they will remain seperate services, kinda like sprint/nextel.

They already said they would be merging the two services if the deal goes through, eliminating repetitive stations.

02-24-2007, 02:28 PM

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So, will Sirius lose some channels?

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02-24-2007, 02:46 PM

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So, will Sirius lose some channels?

They both will, assuming the deal goes through. The repetitive channels will be eliminated (ie. only one 70's channel, only one 80's channel, etc.). I assume they will go with whichever one they feel is the better suited.