Comments on: The Latest Consolidation: “XMSIRIUS” http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:04:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: RLM http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79520 RLM Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:18:08 +0000 http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79520 Why worry about the merger of commerical radio broadcasting companiies on the deaf blog? Who cares? If one and another VRS company merge into the real Godzilla company to quash on other competitors. That would be really a different story for us, deaf readers and bloggers. Let hearing people handle their own problems, not ours. What happened to the Anti-Sherman Act??? Don't it have any teeth anymore? GWB want to be another Theodore Roosevelt (T.R.), but he didn't live up to his personal idol, T.R. or Karl Rowe's real idol (???). FCC could learn something from Governor Mike O'Malley about the importance of having the regulatory board to govern and dissect any arising concerns within companies with public interests. We ought to worry more about the conversion of analog to digtial television system by the end of 2007. Will there any chaotic occurence among the less forunate population for not able to access to the television airwaves without converters. Robert L. Mason (RLM) Why worry about the merger of commerical radio broadcasting companiies on the deaf blog? Who cares?

If one and another VRS company merge into the real Godzilla company to quash on other competitors. That would be really a different story for us, deaf readers and bloggers.

Let hearing people handle their own problems, not ours.

What happened to the Anti-Sherman Act??? Don’t it have any teeth anymore? GWB want to be another Theodore Roosevelt (T.R.), but he didn’t live up to his personal idol, T.R. or Karl Rowe’s real idol (???).

FCC could learn something from Governor Mike O’Malley about the importance of having the regulatory board to govern and dissect any arising concerns within companies with public interests.

We ought to worry more about the conversion of analog to digtial television system by the end of 2007. Will there any chaotic occurence among the less forunate population for not able to access to the television airwaves without converters.

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

]]> By: Merge and Conquer http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79461 Merge and Conquer Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:52:21 +0000 http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79461 Help us see this better: Aren't these two companies the entire market, with 100% of the customers between them right now? How would this change with their merger? Protesting the merger seems to be akin to forcing two diners to eat the same meal using own forks instead of sharing one? Also, not to nitpick, isn't antritrust concerns actually the jurisdiction of the FTC? The FCC is concerned only with spectrum scarcity, which I think is not an issue with satellite radio technology. Help us see this better: Aren’t these two companies the entire market, with 100% of the customers between them right now? How would this change with their merger? Protesting the merger seems to be akin to forcing two diners to eat the same meal using own forks instead of sharing one?

Also, not to nitpick, isn’t antritrust concerns actually the jurisdiction of the FTC? The FCC is concerned only with spectrum scarcity, which I think is not an issue with satellite radio technology.

]]> By: Oscar http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79454 Oscar Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:22:22 +0000 http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79454 Merge: I agree with you; XMSIRIUS would enlarge the sat radio market by consolidating and thus eliminating the competition factor, but the FCC's beef would be that the offspring of the merger could turn into a goliath by monopolizing the sat radio market and not giving would-be competitors a chance to secure a place at the trough, so to speak. Merge: I agree with you; XMSIRIUS would enlarge the sat radio market by consolidating and thus eliminating the competition factor, but the FCC’s beef would be that the offspring of the merger could turn into a goliath by monopolizing the sat radio market and not giving would-be competitors a chance to secure a place at the trough, so to speak.

]]> By: Merge and Conquer http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79444 Merge and Conquer Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:07:39 +0000 http://www.deafdc.com/blog/oscar-ocuto/2007-02-26/the-latest-consolidation-xmsirius/#comment-79444 Mergers aren't all good. AOL Time Warner was a memorable disaster for both as their combined value ended up being less than each was worth. But I wonder how both would fare today if they never merged. Sometimes mergers are necessary in order to remain competitive. The satellite radio market is foreign to me but if there are yet enough subscribers, Sirius and XM might think a merger to be the better choice over continued competition? Mergers aren’t all good. AOL Time Warner was a memorable disaster for both as their combined value ended up being less than each was worth. But I wonder how both would fare today if they never merged.

Sometimes mergers are necessary in order to remain competitive. The satellite radio market is foreign to me but if there are yet enough subscribers, Sirius and XM might think a merger to be the better choice over continued competition?

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