Lysis
join:2005-03-30
Brooklyn, NY | reply to Mactron
Re: So what?!?! this is a sham
the merger would benefit consumers (twice at much programing - and they say they will lower the price)
the merger benefits satellite radio and allows satellite radio to exist
NAB and the regular radios do not like satellite, and lobbying hard against this merger, and its working apparently - 180 days!! bad for consumers that the politcians are listening to them |
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| Right. We all know that people in the business world are totally honest: just ask Ken Lay. |
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would NOT be twice as much programming... since alot of channels play the same content (same genre), there is no point to have 2x country, 2x 80, 2x 90's and so on.
The best part would be having all the sports in one place, MLB, NHL, NBA, Nascar... whatever else there is. |
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| It's definitely going to lead to less content choice on the music spectrum. Karmazin has already admitted that the "similar" music channels will likely have their operations combined. The ONLY people who are going to be happy with this deal are those who need to hear every f--king pro sports event under the sun, and that assumes there's enough bandwidth on both services to support it. The MLB channels can take up something like 256kbps on XM, and I think that's a lot considering that their two transponders only put out about 3mbps each.
Both of these services sound like total crap. Unfortunately neither one seems to care anything at all about sound quality. (XM actually seems to put effort into making it sound like crap by adding EQ in an attempt to override the decisions made by the audio coder that is pumping out puny little 32 or 40kbps steams.) |
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