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XM and Sirius Officially Merge

Tags: XM + Sirius + Merge

Motu
Posted by Motu 1 year 9 months ago; via techdirt.com/articles/200...

Rumors of a merger between XM and Sirius have been around for pretty much as long as the two companies have been operating -- and now, they're finally true.

The two companies plan to merge and meld together their content offerings and technical platforms to create a single satellite-radio provider. The biggest obstacle to the plans is the FCC approval required for it to move ahead, and FCC chair Kevin Martin has made comments in the past that make it look like he wouldn't approve such a deal. The problem is the way that the FCC looks at...

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XM and Sirius to merge?

Tags: XM + Sirius + merge + Howard Stern + Martha Stewart

Ambassador
Posted by Ambassador 1 year 11 months ago; via nytimes.com/2007/01/01/te...

The New York Times is suggesting that the two players in the satellite radio market — XM and Sirius — may try to merge in 2007. Sirius signed Howard Stern in 2006 and saw its fortune and subscriber base rise, but still not surpass XM’s, and neither company’s stock price is doing well. A merger would consolidate costs and alter programming very little. Besides personalities like Stern and Martha Stewart on Sirius and Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Degeneres on XM, the two offer similar music and news programming.

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