>The FCC has finally voted to approve the merger between XM and SIRIUS Satellite Radio late last Friday afternoon. As expected, the vote was 3-2, with Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate casting the deciding vote to approve; a deal that took almost 18 months to complete.Now it will be interesting to see which urban stations survive […]
>Chairman Kevin Martin tells the Wall Street Journal they’ve got “an agreement in principle”. The companies just issued a press release on the outlines of a consent decree. XM would pay about $17 million and Sirius another $2 million, and they’d both deal with “variant terrestrial repeaters” and non-compliant radios still owned by consumers. (This […]
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