XM/Sirius Merge
Well, it's finally happened. XM/Sirius have merged, and they are currently both subscribers of XM and Sirius will be able to get a mixture of channels. I was driving home yesterday, and saw some Sirius stations on my XM roady, and was pleasantly surprised. Any current XM/Sirius cartridge/dock/antenna should work in picking up both. There are expanded packages available for XM subscribers for Sirius content like Howard Stern, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Van Stevens on
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Of course you know, with the merger, they're bound for some layoffs and many subscribers are really tightening their belts. Merger on any company is not a good idea. I don't know what these peeople are thinking that merging will be better. To whose advantage? It just makes it worse.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Bradford on -
I'm not happy with the merge. :(
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I'm not happy with any mergers of any companies. I wonder why CEO's think merging is better. Is it better for the CEO's only?
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Permalink Reply by John Soltis on -
In this case, it's only better for the bottom line and that only temporarily.
Mergers sometimes make sense, if one of the companies was near bankruptcy for example (I don't think that was the case here), but all too often they are just a way of eliminating competition.
Van Stevens said:I'm not happy with any mergers of any companies. I wonder why CEO's think merging is better. Is it better for the CEO's only?
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Permalink Reply by Leon Elder on -
The merger of these two companies is absolutely a good thing. It has taken two failing companies and created one company that may survive. Think about this, what is better, two companies that fail and everyones looses their jobs or a merger that allows at least some of them to keep a job. They would not have merged if they were not in trouble, otherwise it would just have been a hostile takeover, where a more powerful company comes in and fires everybody and closes up shop.
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Leon, that is a great point you have just made. I never did think of it that way.
Leon Elder said:The merger of these two companies is absolutely a good thing. It has taken two failing companies and created one company that may survive. Think about this, what is better, two companies that fail and everyones looses their jobs or a merger that allows at least some of them to keep a job. They would not have merged if they were not in trouble, otherwise it would just have been a hostile takeover, where a more powerful company comes in and fires everybody and closes up shop.
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