Finally, Sirius & XM announcing merger plan today

[mzkhadir]

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[49erinnc]

As a Sirius subscriber, I'm very happy to hear this and I think the real winner will be anyone who subscribes to either satellite provider. But I wonder if we can expect our monthly rates to go up after a merge? I think they'll tick off a lot of people if they jack up the price.

 

[jdini76]

Stern was off today. I am curiuous to hear his thoughts on this.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: jdini76
Stern was off today. I am curiuous to hear his thoughts on this.

It means more listeners for him, so he's probably happy about it.

 

[shocksyde]

my friends works at Xm, hope she doesn't get dropped due to the merger

 

[iRONic]

Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

 

[evident]

cool, more content but i swear if they jack up prices i will flip

 

[KarmaPolice]

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: evident
cool, more content but i swear if they jack up prices i will flip

I paid for 1 year up front. I probably should have gone for the 2 year plan...wonder if I could still get that.

 

[spidey07]

My guess is they will have differently priced "packages" that let you chose channels.

Just like the cable company.

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

I've waited this long...

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: spidey07
My guess is they will have differently priced "packages" that let you chose channels.

Just like the cable company.

"Tiers" FTL!

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

why wouldnt they just be able to add each other's content to their current programming? ie have Stern's 100/101 channels on XM as different channels?

 

[ChaoZ]

How much better is Sirius than XM? I had a free XM trial and their channels were bleh.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
How much better is Sirius than XM? I had a free XM trial and their channels were bleh.

I have XM and i like it...never tried sirius but my uncle has both and says they are pretty much the same. Baseball is the best sport to listen to on the radio and XM has that so its pretty much why I stick with it.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

why wouldnt they just be able to add each other's content to their current programming? ie have Stern's 100/101 channels on XM as different channels?

Satellite is extremely bandwidth limited. Theyve already stretched their paltry bandwidth far too thin - doubling the channels would make it absolutely inaudible.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
How much better is Sirius than XM? I had a free XM trial and their channels were bleh.

never had xm....but with sirius i usually only listen to howard, maxim and nfl out of market broadcast games. i was gettingt terrible reception at night with espn radio on am so now i just listen to it on satellite and its great.

xm has O&A, oprah and baseball.....sirius has stern, maxim, nfl and nascar. sirius' lineup has more appeal to me then xm's

 

[Yreka]

I have both services, they are very similar.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

why wouldnt they just be able to add each other's content to their current programming? ie have Stern's 100/101 channels on XM as different channels?

Satellite is extremely bandwidth limited. Theyve already stretched their paltry bandwidth far too thin - doubling the channels would make it absolutely inaudible.

well, maybe they can get rid of some of the unnecessary music channels.

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

why wouldnt they just be able to add each other's content to their current programming? ie have Stern's 100/101 channels on XM as different channels?

Satellite is extremely bandwidth limited. Theyve already stretched their paltry bandwidth far too thin - doubling the channels would make it absolutely inaudible.

well, maybe they can get rid of some of the unnecessary music channels.

Yep.. like all the NON-English channels and those weather/traffic channels..

 

[KarmaPolice]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

why wouldnt they just be able to add each other's content to their current programming? ie have Stern's 100/101 channels on XM as different channels?

Satellite is extremely bandwidth limited. Theyve already stretched their paltry bandwidth far too thin - doubling the channels would make it absolutely inaudible.

well, maybe they can get rid of some of the unnecessary music channels.

Yep.. like all the NON-English channels and those weather/traffic channels..

XM has some internationl channles but where is the damn Japan or even asain ones! Come on where is he Jpop love.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: iRONic
Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'll subscribe as soon as it's rolled out.

Thats gonna be a while and like I said in the other thread(omgits a repost) that its probably not going to happen at all. Even if they do merge your not gonna have a reciever that can get both signals for a long long time. They cannot allienate their entire user base and tell them to get new units, they will have to keep the two seperate.

why wouldnt they just be able to add each other's content to their current programming? ie have Stern's 100/101 channels on XM as different channels?

Satellite is extremely bandwidth limited. Theyve already stretched their paltry bandwidth far too thin - doubling the channels would make it absolutely inaudible.

well, maybe they can get rid of some of the unnecessary music channels.

Yep.. like all the NON-English channels and those weather/traffic channels..

Why should they get rid of Non-English channels? Some of us here speak more than one language and like to listen to Non-English channels as well as the regular ones. In fact, I wish they had more International channels. Just because you are an uneducated mouthbreather doesn't mean the rest of us are.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: iRONic

Originally posted by: spidey07
My guess is they will have differently priced "packages" that let you chose channels.

Just like the cable company.

"Tiers" FTL!

Why? Who wants to pay for a sports package they wouldn't ever use? Or hip hop stations they never listen to? If I was a satellite radio customer, my listening habits would be a lot like my cable TV viewing habits - I'd listen to 4 or 5 channels, tops. If I could get those 5 channels for half of what it costs me to get 100+ channels I don't listen to, sign me up.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: 49erinnc
As a Sirius subscriber, I'm very happy to hear this and I think the real winner will be anyone who subscribes to either satellite provider. But I wonder if we can expect our monthly rates to go up after a merge? I think they'll tick off a lot of people if they jack up the price.

The only reason for the merge is to eliminate competition and raise rates.

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: iRONic

Originally posted by: spidey07
My guess is they will have differently priced "packages" that let you chose channels.

Just like the cable company.

"Tiers" FTL!

Why? Who wants to pay for a sports package they wouldn't ever use? Or hip hop stations they never listen to? If I was a satellite radio customer, my listening habits would be a lot like my cable TV viewing habits - I'd listen to 4 or 5 channels, tops. If I could get those 5 channels for half of what it costs me to get 100+ channels I don't listen to, sign me up.

Because if they structured the tiers like most cable companies do currently your scenario would not be supported.