Thursday, January 18, 2007

Sirius, XM Can't Merge: FCC Chief

By TSC Staff
1/17/2007 3:17 PM EST

Shares of Sirius Satellite Radio (
SIRI) and rival XM (XMSR) tumbled Wednesday after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said agency rules wouldn't allow the two to merge.

A potential merger of the companies has been the subject of repeated speculation in recent months, but Bloomberg quoted FCC Chairman Kevin Martin as saying that existing regulations prohibit a single owner for the two satellite-ratio operators.

Martin made the comments following an FCC meeting. Sirius was dropping 5.5% to $3.92. XM was slumping 7.6% to $15.83.

Good... Fuck XM. We will ground them into dust.

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