XM / Sirius Satellite radio merger being pushed HARD now! Let's stop this crazy thing!

[cascadiance]

(as Cold Cut would say in their day...)

After KLSD went dark last Friday, on Saturday I resubscribed to Sirius Satellite radio, since I already had the equipment, etc. and so I wouldn't be without decent radio options driving here. Noticed on their web site, the person I spoke to when signing up, and on promos blasting around every few minutes that they are REALLY pushing Sirius stock holders now to send in their proxy votes to approve the XM / Sirius merger.

Now, its being made to sound like it will be "good" for the customer as they will get offered more choices, but from where I'm sitting, with each of these services already preempting certain channels at times (like their progressive talk channels) to make room for sports broadcasts periodically, I could see them "streamlining things" so that instead of having progressive talk on both services they might cut back to one between the two of them, etc. or even remove them altogether if they work like Clear Channel when they get "too big for their britches" with that monopoly power that this merger will give to them.

I wonder if it is time for a quick petition rally or other "raise awareness" campaign to Sirius and XM stockholders to have them understand what is really at stake here. We're short on time, as the promos said that they wanted these proxies mailed in to them by Tuesday (TOMORROW!).

If you want to read up on this, try and go to Sirius's talk board at:

http://www.siriusbackstage.com/forum /

or more importantly, go to this one web page that really starts to explain the concerns that many have with this merger. I've already been the victim of one monopolistic media raw deal this last week with KLSD and Clear Channel. Let's stop this one in its tracks. Then I'll feel better. Rumor has it here that the Republican controlled FCC is trying to quietly push this through now too!

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/report-doj-antitrust-chief-to-approve-merger.html