How Will The Combined XM-Sirius Affect You?
Originally announced 800 years ago, the XM-Sirius merger looks to be a done deal. The FCC has confirmed that there’s an agreement in principal to allow the companies to merge. This means what, exactly, to you, the good ol’ consumer?
The FCC put a bunch of restrictions on the companies to ensure that consumers don’t get screwed. For one, there needs to be cross-compatible radios (radios that work with both services) within nine months. Also good news for us, the companies aren’t allowed to raise prices for at least three years.
The combined company will also be forced to off a la carte programming. So if all you want is the Comedy Channels, then, theoretically, you’ll be able to subscribe to just those.
This merger talk has been going on since last year, so we’re pretty damn sick of it, but it’s good to see that consumers don’t get screwed by the combined company.
Tate’s merger conditions revealed - Report [Orbitcast]
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I sure hope this means we will get more latin music channels. Ideally, we would have the same music channels you can get on Comcast, where music is broken out into latin music sub-genres. I currently have XM and the latin music channels are definitely lacking in specialization. I would love a dedicated salsa/latin jazz channel, for example.
Posted by zaperoko | July 27, 2008