Sirius/XM To Merge?

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Sirius and XM Radio to merge? Shares of satellite radio operators XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. rose Friday, on speculation that the companies might merge or combine in another way. "We believe a 50/50 enterprise value split or perhaps a slight premium to XM shareholders may be warranted in a merger scenario," Stifel Nicolaus analyst Kit Spring said in a Thursday client note, keeping a "Buy" rating on XM shares. RBC Capital Markets analyst Ryan Vineyard in a Friday note to investors said a combination would generate long-term value for shareholders, given slow retail channel growth. Advertising, office, retail incentives and other synergies total between $5 billion to $6 billion, he wrote. Vineyard believes XM would need to be the acquirer, since it has 7.6 million subscribers to Sirius's 6 million.(Business Week), so..what does this mean for NASCAR Radio, which is now on Sirius? no idea, but looks like total speculation at this point.
 
i think it would be cool if it happened....Sirius has the better programming i think...but XM has the better radios....
 
This has been rumored for months. Will XM subscribers pay more? How do they resolve the differences in technology? What about programming? Seems to me the consumer loses in all of this. When there is only 1 option there is no option.
 
Shouldn't happen

If there were only ONE supplier the price would skyrocket! I doubt it will be allowed. Either could sell to anyone else but not to oneanother.
Betsy;)
 
The merger has been rumored for several months.

Prices might initially go up. But just like when DirecTV bought several out in the late 90's, other companies soon followed and are still around today.
 
MRM There were 3 satellite TV companies. Direct TV purchased the weakest one.. Leaving 2 companies which keeps the price of TV down.
Since there are only two satellite radio companies one purchasing the other would allow the final company to raise prices to whatever they want.
Betsy:rolleyes:
 
July of last year Dish (owned by Echo-Star) and DirecTV were again talking merger. This was blocked in 2002, but US government regulators rejected the deal over antitrust concerns. Maybe XM and Sirius meet the same fate. At this point it is serving to drive up speculation.
 
At this point they do not have much else to look towards. Each company continue to fight for customers yet they both continue to loose money by the boatloads. Does not matter to me one bit since I have a demo account that I do not have to pay for. :)
 
There are simply too many local stations for me to EVER pay for satellite radio. I undertstand they are giving it away with most new cars... but I for one am not interested.
Nor do I see many folks in highly populated areas going for pay-for-listen radio.
Like many of the NEW inventions..yeah you can do it, but the question is WHY?
An example is: I was told the new Chevys send the owner an email when the car needs an oil change... Yep! It is possible to do this...but WHY?
Betsy:rolleyes:
 
You've got a good point there Betsy. Just like cable/satelite TV, you can get way more than you really want. Just recently, I went for the next level of cable TV and have only used the extra channels seldom. However, the upgrade did include a DVR, and that my dear friends, has been used extensively.
 
Betsy said:
There are simply too many local stations for me to EVER pay for satellite radio. I undertstand they are giving it away with most new cars... but I for one am not interested.
Nor do I see many folks in highly populated areas going for pay-for-listen radio.
Like many of the NEW inventions..yeah you can do it, but the question is WHY?
An example is: I was told the new Chevys send the owner an email when the car needs an oil change... Yep! It is possible to do this...but WHY?
Betsy:rolleyes:
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i thought the same thing.....until i got one......i cant stand reg. radio now.

comercials comericals comericals......
 
FCC Nixes Prospect of Sirius-XM Merger
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin didn’t use those exact words Wednesday morning (Jan. 17) when he chatted with reporters after the commission’s monthly open meeting, but he made it clear that FCC regulations created when the satellite radio service was conceived more than a decade ago clearly state that “two satellite radio operators [must] remain in place,” Martin said.
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Betsy said:
MRM There were 3 satellite TV companies. Direct TV purchased the weakest one.. Leaving 2 companies which keeps the price of TV down.
Since there are only two satellite radio companies one purchasing the other would allow the final company to raise prices to whatever they want.
Betsy:rolleyes:
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There could be another company getting ready to start. If so, the merger will go through. If not, I'm sure it will be blocked. I don't subscribe to either, so it doesn't affect me either way.
 
I bought Sirius for myself for Xmas. Radio Shack had a real good deal. And, with the NASCAR line up it's been well worth it. Also, we took a trip this past weekend and I plugged the radio into my headphones so I could listen to the game. This left the CD player for my wife and the DVD player for the grandkids. That solved a lot of problems and I didn't have to change channels every 100 miles or so.
 
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