Comments on: Big News … round here, anyway

By: David Aldridge

David Aldridge — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:45:14 +0000

It has all been very contentious for sure. Incidentally, lowering prices has not been a rationale for the merger.

There’s a pretty balanced write-up on the history of it at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM/Sirius_merger

Personally I have always found the terrestrial broadcasters’ output to be un-listenable. Apparantly I’m not in one of their target demographics of something so if you took the all the FM radios away from my cars and house it could be years before I noticed. Take away the “BBC World Service” from my daily commute and “XM Kids” from driving round on the weekend, and all the other XM channels I dip into as my hypershort attention span dictates, and that could be a serious mental health problem.

By: joel garry

joel garry — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:23:06 +0000

So you’ve got two unprofitable companies claiming that their merger into a satellite monopoly will lower prices somehow, and the FCC saying it’s not a monopoly because consumers might have ipods or broadband internet or cellphones.

Well, at least mergers make for interesting times in IS departments.

By: Donald K. Burleson

Donald K. Burleson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:59:56 +0000

Oops, try this link for the FCC song:

http://www.jibjab.com/view/197052

By: Donald K. Burleson

Donald K. Burleson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:59:00 +0000

>> Just the FCC to go now.

Ah, Uncle Charley . . .

Have you heard the “FCC Song”?

http://www.radioearth.com/FamilyGuyFCC.html