lrtc
join:2004-06-05
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| Can't wait
I welcome the merger and I hope it is allowed (I am a Sirius subscriber). As for opposition, does it really matter there are a few gas companies and there seems to be no competition between them at all. If one raises the price it seems like the others follow. |
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P Ness
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| so sad that this merger has taken almost longer then many major mergers that people felt should not have been approved including att, exxonmobile, ect.....
esp when there is 20 different places to get this content both paid and FREE
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brooklynman4
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Brooklyn, NY | I thin ppart of the merger is for them to have a rival. |
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Siryak
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The thing is though they will still have competition. There is still FM radio. If they raise the prices you can rest assured that they will loose a large amount of customers. They are doing good to get $10 out of them. Especially whenever they can use FM for free.
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Mactron
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P Ness
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said by brooklynman4  :I thin ppart of the merger is for them to have a rival. you mean like the radio in your car that gives you free music?
or the ipod you can dock in your car to get any music you want
or the cell phone that lets you download any song you want
or HDradio that gives you even more FREE music...some even commercial free?
...want more?
How about slacker that is launching soon
How about WiFi that is going to make streaming easier while in a car
How about the new company announced this week that had already paid for their sat's?
want more???
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Steve Mehs
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| I can’t believe people actually consider iPods competition to satellite radio. Sure they both provide audio entertainment, but it’s live v prerecorded, there a huge difference. So CDs, audio cassettes, 8 Tracks, and records were competition for FM radio in the past? I think not. Meanwhile Clear Channel bought a bunch of stations yet there was all of this so called ‘competition’.
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you mean like the radio in your car that gives you free music?
or the ipod you can dock in your car to get any music you want
or the cell phone that lets you download any song you want
or HDradio that gives you even more FREE music...some even commercial free?
...want more?
How about slacker that is launching soon
How about WiFi that is going to make streaming easier while in a car
How about the new company announced this week that had already paid for their sat's?
want more???
None of those things mean jack shit. It’s XM and Sirius competing against EACH OTHER that led them to be as great as they are. Face it, a rats fart creates a better listening experience then terrestrial radio. You don’t have to aim to high to outdo that garbage. Free radio blows. It’s absolutely disgusting that in 2007 AM/FM Radio still lives. I haven’t listened to dinosaur radio in years. Free radio, you get what you pay for. HD Radio is a joke and a lame gimmick terrestrial radio is doing. I can't believe some people don't pay for radio.
As a 4 year subscriber to XM and a 3 year subscriber to Sirius, I like each service the way it is. The competition between them both makes them great. I really hope the merger does not go through and I have a feeling it won’t. I don’t want a combined service, I don’t want cheaper service, I want what I’m getting now.
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P Ness
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| XM/Sirius is 95% not live.....btw
does not mean if none of those things mean jack shit, they are AUDIO that you can listen to in your car, at your home and on the run.....
they both play music, they both have talk programing, they both play sports, ect....
they are the exact same thing except one is local, one is not. one comes from a sat the other comes from antena's.....
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Steve Mehs
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| Put in a CD or put your iPod on shuffle and they’ll be no surprises. You know exactly what you are going to hear. But on XM and Sirius and you never know what you’ll hear. The iPod, CDs, whatever is NOT AND NEVER WILL BE competition to SDARS.
Was it because of CDs, the iPod or even terrestrial radio that XM split up classic rock into two eras, or was it in response to Sirius doing it? Was it because of CDs, the iPod or even terrestrial radio that Sirius added a Christian Rock station or was it because XM had one?
I can’t get Tennessee Titans radio play by play here in Buffalo and I can’t get Buffalo Sabres play by play when I’m out of town on dinosaur radio, and I sure as hell can’t get it on my iPod. I have discovered so much music thanks to XM and Sirius that I would have never heard, I downloaded and put them on my iPod. Much like 15 years ago people listened to terrestrial radio heard a song they liked and then bought the CD
Do you have XM? Do you have Sirius? And I mean actually having it, not having a friend who has it, or having Dish or DirecTV feeds. Saying “they are the exact same thing except one is local, one is not” is completely not true and shows you have no idea what you are talking about, terrestrial radio and satellite radio both provide audio entertainment and that’s where their similarities stop.
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P Ness
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said by Time4aNAP :None of those examples cited are in the same market as Sirius/XM. If you don't know what markets and marketplaces are, or their significance in this matter, do feel free to take a business 101 class. tell me boss what market are they in?
radio is not in the market of giving you music to listen to while you drive? Radio personalities to listen too while you drive? Live content while you drive.....ect...ect....
why because one can provide the nationally? well guess what so does clear channel dont limit your thought process to a station's name....they are all owned by a single company and its more then likley you can get the same kind of music in every market....
so tell me why they are not in the same market?
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P Ness
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the technology exsist that allows digital radio to charge for access and charge a monthly fee. because they choose not to and have commercials means nothing to "which market they are in"
they both provide the same PRODUCT. name what they provide that is a different product and i will accept it
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Siryak
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said by Time4aNAP :said by Siryak :The thing is though they will still have competition. That remains to be seen. There is still FM radio. If they raise the prices you can rest assured that they will loose [sic] a large amount of customers. They are doing good to get $10 out of them. Especially whenever they can use FM for free. Do you really mean "If Sirius and/or XM (not FM radio stations) raise their prices..."? Someone who has made a significant capital investment in a receiver for either of the services has a very good motivation to keep paying for service at any cost, vs. being left with a very expensive paperweight. Commercial "FM radio" broadcasts are not competition for Sirius or XM. It's an entirely different service, with different rules and different limitations. No matter how much you're willing to pay, you can't get an FM radio station's programming without commercials. Apples and oranges are both edible, but they're not interchangeable. Yes FM is competition. Because if they go any higher than their current price people will drop them like flies and go back to FM. I have XM radio and it is not worth a penny more than I am paying for it. Yes it is nice to be rid of the commercials, but I am only willing to pay so much to get rid of them. I can barely justify the cost as it is.
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darbea
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Re: Can't wait
I've been an XM subscriber for a couple of years. IMHO, they have a better programming selection than sirius. However, Sirius has NFL channels, while XM doesn't. XM carries NBA, NHL, NL baseball. I'd rather have NFL. The odd thing, lately, is I have turned away from listening to a variety of stations and first got hooked on Air America. Sometime later, my son put on the Comedy channel, #150, and I've been hooked ever since. Sure, there are some stand ups, who, lacking real talent, rely on excessive vulgarity and swearing. But there are many out there that I never heard of before that have real talent, good material, good delivery, etc. A really good way to discover new talent, and also hear some great pioneers like Redd Fox and others from his generation, and compare their 'blue' material to the modern stand up.
The merger would give us more choices, and that's always a good thing. Too bad that Howard Stern comes with the package, but then again, I don't have to listen to him...
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Time4aNAP
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What I want to know is why I keep seeing this non sequitur comparison to other cases that have nothing whatsoever with the one at hand. Please explain.
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Time4aNAP
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July 15th, @08:29AM
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None of those examples cited are in the same market as Sirius/XM.
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