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    • Tue May 20th 11:51 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      thanksgovt, First of all where did you come up with, that the president gives a rats ass about this merger. I think the president could care less. As for the two democrats and the roll they play, read my other comments I have gone over that many many times also read the reuters article. I will repeat this though, I believe if the congress was controled by republicans right now Martin would have called for a vote a long time ago, and would not care id the 2 democrats were heard or not and would have been happy with a 3 to 2 vote.
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    • Tue May 20th 11:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      thanksgovt, as to it being the 2 democrats holding this up, yes it is. Why because it is easy, Martin has already said he expacted a decision on this by the end of the year. You have to ask yourself, why would he say that if he, A.) was not ready to vote on it, and B.) at this point, ready to approve it.

      As to the being president, that is realitivly simple, most (that does not include libertarians) want/like power and there is no more powerful job.
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    • Tue May 20th 11:11 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      birdman264, Did you read what I said, are you that dumb or what. I, in a nut shell, Said the numbers they give are the good ones they want to put out, they dont tell you about the bad ones, NOT AGAINST THE LAW TO DO. Especially when they get into a fictitious things like being able to count their parking lot subs. Please read what I said in that comment. Was it against the SEC not to give the ARPU when including the parking lot subs? ANSWER = NO, but they didn't give it did they. Something you would have seen if you would have read the comment correctly I gave on this.
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    • Tue May 20th 10:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      thanksgovt, you sound conspiratorial. First of all nobody (I only include the commissioners) at the FCC are taking bribes, you have to get real there.

      thanksgovt, and sompsonic, You both sound like dumb ass democrats that cant come to grip with what your own parties ideology is. Do ether of you read, why dont you read the Reuters article I told you about and then come back and try and claim that dumb shit. Where are you two going to be when Martin is hauled in front of a democrat congress, because the 2 democrats on the board went crying to congress and told them; we were not heard, we had plenty of other things that needed to be gone over, this merger should have never been approved. Are you going to write congress and tell them what they are doing to Martin is bullshit, some how I dought it.
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    • Tue May 20th 10:35 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      yoyoYO, Do you understand that SIRI ARPU is screwed because of the deferred revenew factor. Do you reallize that the way SIRI deals are structured are much better then the way XMSR deal are. Tell that to GM about being able to restructure its deal. I think they would say fat chance, they are sitting pretty with what they got, and are not going to give it up anytime soon. The only way they may is if a merger would happen, then maybe. yoyoYO you make it sound like it is a light switch that XMSR can just switch anytime, that is far from the case.

      I will agree, about both being creative with the accounting though.
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    • Tue May 20th 10:19 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      Stan, come on, there are planty of companies out there with enough cash on hand that could pay to get a bankrupt XMSR. You act like service will be interupted while they go through bankrupcy Like XMSR will come to a total hult. Did Northwest or any airline for that matter just shut its doors and ground the plans? Answer = NO, Vary few companies do. Your opinion may be true for retail as far as people going more towards SIRI, but the OEMs would not stop.
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    • Tue May 20th 10:05 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      dissappointed American, Try doing some reasearch first and blame the right people. Try reading the Reuters article I suggested you read first.
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    • Tue May 20th 10:00 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      My point is he blames Martin for this, yet Martin was the one saying that it would be decided by the end of the year. Martin cant help it if the democrats keep tring to slow this up, he cant help it if the two democrats keep wanting conditions that would not be acceptable to SIRI/XMSR. he cant help it, if the democrats want to pretend that they are the DOJ instead of the FCC. If he wants to put up a bitch note, then he should make sure the right people are the ones being blamed.
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    • Tue May 20th 09:20 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      FilthyLucre, and disappointed American, should read the Reuters article "US Antitrust lawers say Obama mat be optimistic". It shows just which political party ideology is against mergers in general. Here is a clue, it is not the republicans.
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    • Tue May 20th 09:00 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      P.S. I am sick and tired of disappointed American, cut and pasting his manifesto everywhere.
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    • Tue May 20th 08:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      birdman264, I dont put to much in XMSRs numbers anymore, they tell you only what they want you to hear. They say the retail market is not that important anymore that is because SIRI now beats them by 186,000 subcribers in it. They want to try and include the parking lot subcribers in a fictional way and include it in evey way it makes their numbers look good (here is a clue try figuring them in on ARPU, they wont because they dont get paid for them and that means it will destroy it). Then forget to mention that they cant count them because they do not get paid for them. Someone should tell them that just because there is a satellite radio in their OEMs does not mean it is a subcriber, you need to get paid for the subcribtion. There is a reason SIRI doesn't count its cars with Kia for example, because they dont get paid until the car is sold and a person is subcribing.
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    • Tue May 20th 06:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sirius/XM Merger: What Happens if It Doesn’t Happen?
      ForBetter, you are right. There is no way in hell this company would not get picked up out of bankrupcy. When I said 2 billion That gave the dept holders almost 50% of their value back. That would be a dream for banks holding the dept. in a company in bankrupcy. Not to mention the cuurent satellites in orbit are worth almost 2 billion to who ever picks up this deal, depending on how much of them was lease back.

      I personally dont see it happening though, I cant see the banks saying; We see you are only 3 to 6 months from being profitable but we just cant give you another 150 million on top of the 4 billion we have already. We would reather you go bankrupt and not get vary much back.
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    • Tue May 20th 05:49 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Stan, I dont agree with what you say, about Sirius being the only one left. As for start up cost, hell some entity could vary easy pick XMSR up for a song while it is in bankrupcy. As to the late entry, there would be none if they bought XMSR. I just cant see how you could think, some other entity would let the (most likely) 11 million and growing subcribers at the time of bankrupcy just wither on the vine. Not to mention all the deals that XMSR has with all its OEM partners, and would most likely be able to at least change the deal they had with GM to make that more reasonable (with a something is better then nothing deal). Hell I could see someone picking it up for 2 billion or less and not have shareholder/dept baggage. I am sorry I just dont see that ever happening. I think you are way out of the ball park on that part of your article. But on a happier note I like the rest of your article.
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    • Mon May 19th 20:00 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      XM, Sirius Draw Merger Lines
      cos1000, I have to say I normally do not play in the channel this much. Like you, for me it is something to keep me occupied. I have to say though you were more intelligent then I though. I only sold the extra 2000 I bought because it was so low, but I should have sold the other 3,000 I normally use to mess around with. I usually wait til it gets to 2.95 - 3.20 for that though.


      For all those democrats out there, that want this merger to go through, and think it is the republicans holding this up or think this would have gone better if a democrat got into office instead of Bush. Read the Reuters atricle, "US Antitrust lawers say Obama maybe optimisic". It shows just which ideology is the one that is for mergers in general. I will tell you this much now, IT IS NOT THE DEMOCRAT IDEOLOGY.
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    • Mon May 19th 17:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      XM, Sirius Draw Merger Lines
      Roxieanne, I cant agree more, here here, well said.
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