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Sirius-XM: Day 445

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

Remember the Sirius-XM deal?   It was in all the papers March before last, when the two satellite radio firms asked the FCC for permission to merge.   The FCC still hasn’t made a decision on the issue (the Justice Department approved the deal earlier t ... Continue reading »

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  • Why assume something has "gone so terribly wrong"? Maybe this is exactly what the process is designed to do. Some factions within the FCC simply be trying to wait out Sirius and XM in the hopes that they'll grow tired and quit the deal altogether.

    Heck, just today the Federal Trade Commission "won" a challenge to a hospital merger when the parties threw in the towel -- after FTC staff took more than *two* years to review the deal.
  • Right ON! Wars have been won and lost in less time.

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