Please, FCC. Do the right thing for once.
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This just in... subscribers to get dicked.* Greater Programming and Content Choices -- The combined company is
committed to consumer choice, including offering consumers the ability
to pick and choose the channels and content they want on a more a la
carte basis. The combined company will also provide consumers with a
broader selection of content, including a wide range of commercial-free
music channels, exclusive and non-exclusive sports coverage, news,
talk, and entertainment programming. Together, XM and SIRIUS will be
able to improve on products such as real-time traffic and rear-seat
video and introduce new ones such as advanced data services including
enhanced traffic, weather and infotainment offerings.
* Accelerated Technological Innovation -- The merger will enable the
combined company to develop and introduce a wider range of lower cost,
easy-to-use, and multi-functional devices through efficiencies in chip
set and radio design and procurement. Such innovation is essential to
remaining competitive in the consumer electronics-driven world of audio
entertainment.
* Benefits to OEM and Retail Partners -- The combined company will offer
automakers and retailers the opportunity to provide a broader content
offering to their customers. Consumer electronics retailers, including
Best Buy, Circuit City, RadioShack, Wal-Mart and others, will benefit
from enhanced product offerings that should allow satellite radio to
compete more effectively.
* Enhanced Financial Performance -- This transaction will enhance the
long-term financial success of satellite radio by allowing the combined
company to better manage its costs through sales and marketing and
subscriber acquisition efficiencies, satellite fleet synergies, combined
R&D and other benefits from economies of scale. Wall Street equity
analysts have published estimates of the present value of cost synergies
ranging from $3 billion to $7 billion.
* More Competitive Audio Entertainment Provider -- The combination of an
enhanced programming lineup with improved technology, distribution and
financials will better position satellite radio to compete for
consumers' attention and entertainment dollars against a host of
products and services in the highly competitive and rapidly evolving
audio entertainment marketplace. In addition to existing competition
from free "over-the-air" AM and FM radio as well as iPods and mobile
phone streaming, satellite radio will face new challenges from the rapid
growth of HD Radio, Internet radio and next generation wireless
technologies.
Indeed.SPIKE NESMITH! wrote:Please, FCC. Do the right thing for once.
I've tried and tried and I can't find ANY way that this benefits anyone other than XM who were on the fast track to the toilet. It certainly doesn't benefit the subscribers.Greater Programming and Content Choices -- The combined company is
committed to consumer choice, including offering consumers the ability
to pick and choose the channels and content they want on a more a la
carte basis.
They say no, because they already have stiff competition from terrestrial radio, iPods, and soon HD and internet radio.Hoosier Daddy wrote:So ... if approved, this would make SatRadio a monopoly?
...and will I wind up having to replace the sat radios that I've already bought?K-Rock wrote:They say no, because they already have stiff competition from terrestrial radio, iPods, and soon HD and internet radio.Hoosier Daddy wrote:So ... if approved, this would make SatRadio a monopoly?
I still think that there's enough room for two satrad providers, but the way these companies have burned through cash, the shareholders are demanding a return. A merge is the fastest way to do it.
The technology that got sadrad off the ground is nothing short of amazing. They had to create it, and because nobody has done it before, it was incredibly expensive to develop. They are still paying for it to this day.
The marketing and talent costs go without saying...
But the real question is: how do the dual subs decide which service to cut?
You fucking hypocrite...NAB STATEMENT IN RESPONSE
TO SIRIUS/XM PROPOSED MERGER
WASHINGTON, DC - The following statement can be attributed to NAB Executive Vice President Dennis Wharton.
..."When the FCC authorized satellite radio, it specifically found that the public would be served best by two competitive nationwide systems. Now, with their stock prices at rock bottom and their business model in disarray because of profligate spending practices, they seek a government bail-out to avoid competing in the marketplace.
"In coming weeks, policymakers will have to weigh whether an industry that makes Howard Stern its poster child should be rewarded with a monopoly platform for offensive programming. We’re hopeful that this anti-consumer proposal will be rejected."