FCC approves Sirius-XM satellite radio merger
(CNET) CNET - The Federal Communications Commission on Friday formally approved Sirius Satellite Radio's $3.3 billion buyout of former competitor XM Satellite Radio with conditions. YahooTechNews [..]
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Sirius Suits Take Over At Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) For all the talk of "merger of equals," this, from the start was a takeover of XM by Sirius (SIRI) and mega-personality Mel Karmazin. Today, Mel made it official, naming Sirius execs t [..]
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While SIRI-XMSR Wait For FCC, Market Deteriorates Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) may yet get their merger approved after 15 months or so. At that point, who's going to care?
While Sirius and XM wait f [..]
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Will A La Carte Programming Save Sirius-XM? No (SIRI) Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) has started rolling out some of the features that it promised during its merger review process, like cross-over programming between the two satelite radio services, and new r [..]
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Sirius: Costs Flat, But New Subscribers Plummet 50% (SIRI) Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) pre-announced its Q2 results/subscriber numbers today on the eve of its now-approved, $3.6 billion acquisition of XM Satellite Radio (XMSR). The good news [..]
Sirius (SIRI): FCC Delay Hurting Satellite Radio Sales Both Sirius (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) reported earnings today and one common theme emerged: people just aren't buying these things at retail and both companies are relying mor [..]
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FCC: We'll Rule On Sirius - XM By The End Of June (SIRI, XMSR) FCC chairman Kevin Martin finally gave a sign on a timetable for a ruling on the long-delayed Sirius Satellite Radio's (SIRI) takeover of XM Satellite Radio (XMSR). "The commission could [..]
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Goldman Whacks Sirius XM Growth Estimates, Drops Price Target To $0.25 (SIRI) Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) has enough bad news to deal with: A souring consumer economy; the decline of the U.S. car industry, where Sirius gets many of its new subscribers; and growing competition. Some new concerns for Mel Karmazi [..]
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Mel Karmazin's Bad Week: Sirius Trading Below $1 (SIRI) Feel like taking a flier on satellite radio? Mel Karmazin? Howard Stern? Today's the day.
That's because shares in Sirius XM Satellite Radio (SIRI) are measured now in pennies, or fractions of a dollar. [..]
XM Still Growing Ahead Of Sirius Merger, But Slower (XMSR) XM Satellite Radio's (XMSR) imminent merger with rival Sirius (SIRI) hasn't stopped people from signing up for satellite radio service. XM said today that it signed up 322,000 net new subscrib [..]
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Goldman Brings Sirius-XM Crashing Back To Earth (SIRI, XMSR) Shares of Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) are getting hammered after a Goldman Sachs analyst cut his price targets for both and argued that young people would [..]
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Sirius XM Keeps Tanking: Now 14 Cents (SIRI) How low will Sirius XM (SIRI) go? The satellite radio company closed at $0.14 today, down 14% on the day and down 30% from Tuesday, when it closed at $0.20.
Why? No Sirius-specific news, again, but more general [..]
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Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) completes 17 months of merger hell (thank you, FCC) with its formal acquisition of XM Radio today. The XM brand alive in the combined company's name, Sirius [..]
Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) may yet get their merger approved after 15 months or so. At that point, who's going to care?
While Sirius and XM wait f [..]
Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) are in final talks with the FCC to settle outstanding enforcement issues in a deal would pave the way for appr [..]
Both Sirius (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) reported earnings today and one common theme emerged: people just aren't buying these things at retail and both companies are relying mor [..]
FCC chairman Kevin Martin finally gave a sign on a timetable for a ruling on the long-delayed Sirius Satellite Radio's (SIRI) takeover of XM Satellite Radio (XMSR). "The commission could [..]
Feel like taking a flier on satellite radio? Mel Karmazin? Howard Stern? Today's the day.
That's because shares in Sirius XM Satellite Radio (SIRI) are measured now in pennies, or fractions of a dollar. [..]
