Sirius/XM

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by Kasept

SRP,

There are still details to be worked out regarding each others equipment from what we're being told. Info as soon as we're given further explanation of the 'next steps'.

Pretty exciting though obviously, as it opens up the possibility of more than doubling the potential audience for the show...

SB

I could swear I asked this same question about equipment almost two years ago.......they don't exactly break speed records with developing technology for radio do they?

[TheSpyder]

I thought I heard that they were going to run as two seperate companies for some time before they merged programming.

I got a life time subscription to Sirius and am wondering if that will go in the trash once it's finalized. Hope not.

Spyder

[BillW]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

I thought I heard that they were going to run as two seperate companies for some time before they merged programming.

I got a life time subscription to Sirius and am wondering if that will go in the trash once it's finalized. Hope not.

Spyder

You're probably right. They can't just launch a new satellite next week tell their whole customer base that all receivers are now obsolete and everybody will have to buy a new one. I guess it's possible that they have enough resources on one of the satellites to carry all programming that they can switch the customer base over to, but more than likely the customer's receivers aren't compatible with both satellites anyway.

[jwkniska]

XM's website says that the first combined subscriptions are supposed to be out this fall.