The Justice Department has approved the merger of the two satellite radio companies, Sirius and XM. Now the FCC must okay the deal, which is likely.
I don't know what this will mean for consumers -- I don't subscribe to either service -- but I do know that it means fewer jobs, a subject I'm particularly sensitive to these days. The beach is starting to get awfully crowded.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Merging in Space
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Hey Paul, I miss you on the radio. Probably not as much as you miss being there. My wife got me Sirius two Christmases ago. I was very surprised and asked her what led her to get it, and she noted my rabid football fandom and said that I would probably like the NFL network. I do like the NFL network.
It seems to me that all of the quality free radio shows are being dumped for, (I was going to say hate but that is too strong), wedge issue radio. In my opinion, shows that take a topic and let the listener comment pro or con, or take a topic and present each side in an informative way are no longer there. I guess the silent middle has been silent too long. I think if democrats would concentrate more on restricting ownership percentages in markets, as opposed to the equal time for opposing viewpoints stuff, we would have better radio.
Sorry that I have contributed to your employment woes with my continued listening to Sirius, but I do like the product. I keep monitoring your site in hopes of getting good news of you being hired somewhere and soon.
The merger may not cost jobs-at least in the short term, it may create jobs- the companies have yet to develop the products to get the combined content to the listener-so, you might have a temporary increase-or at leas thte jobns stay put becasue they need both to develop the hardware. The jobhs may stay the same if the companies need the same number of employees to service their existing companies they may not need to lay people off. If there is an increse in subscribers that may increse the number of employees. If the merger does not take place there would be greater loss of jobs as both companies would most likely go out of business.
You would be great on satilite radio- due to the decrese in commercials, your content could be compressed into two hours instead of four so you work day would be shorter and we would still get the full serving. Or you stretch it out and we get even more. There si still room for commercials to increase revenue, but the $12.95 a month helps reduce that. Howard Stern has commercials, but not the 20 minutes of them or more an hour. He will go for an hour before palying a commerical, I suspect that is not just to revenue, but includes needing to take a break to re-organize and hit the bathroom.
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