Like subscription television, which offers a wide variety of classic sitcoms, original programming and premium movies for a monthly fee, satellite radio providers beam music and exclusive sports programming to their subscribers every day. As anyone who has this feature will tell you, it definitely makes the daily commute a lot more enjoyable. Currently, only ...
Sirius and XM, the nation’s two satellite radio providers, merged in 2008 after a long government approval process. And it wasn’t just the companies that merged-the programming merged as well, allowing subscribers from either service to sample offerings that were previously exclusive to the competition. The strength of satellite radio has always been that it ...
I spend a lot of time in front of my computer each week. As a freelance writer, I not only use my computer for writing, but also for research and fact checking. Through the years, I have had many a day where writer’s block has set in. When it does, one of my favorite pastimes ...
After viewing the post-merger subscription options which the merged XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio plan to offer, I have a suggestion. Believe me, if this can be done, it will offer a better value for current subscribers and will likely help the newly merged company to convince newcomers that satellite radio really is ...
Monday, Feb. 19, 2007 — XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite announced this afternoon that they would be merging. The value of the combined company will be approximately $13 billion dollars. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of this year, although there is some question about whether federal regulators will allow ...
Recently, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio announced several post-merger subscription plans. While it’s good to finally have some idea of what will happen regarding subscriptions when and if the merger goes through, these plans leave me wondering if the merger is really as good for the subscriber as Mel Karmazin and Gary Parsons ...
