I think you have your clocks flip flopped? The article says merger on the clock 248 days while the clock next to the article says 356 days.

I think you have your clocks flip flopped? The article says merger on the clock 248 days while the clock next to the article says 356 days.

The clock on the front page is the amount of time since Mel made the announcement. However, the actually request has only been in front of the FCC for a little while less than that.

Maybe they'll want to kill two birds at one meeting and approve both issues. (fingers crossed!)

Or better yet, reject Sirius-XM.

Rejecting the Sirius-XM merger will do no good for anyone except for the NAB.

Agree with Jon E. It's in the best interest for the consumer that this merger be rejected. I think the FCC will place way to many restrictions on a merged company, and of course there will be no choice of provider for the consumer.

It would be in the best interests of the consumers for the government to mandate a flat rate of 1 dollar per month. But is it the right thing to enforce that upon a company and its shareholders? People need to look at this from a more open viewpoint. This whole thing has gotten crazy. Minimal logic and effort would have gotten this thing done months ago.

If the companies don't merge, they will tank. The best you can hope for is that if they don't merge, they'll get bought out by some other conglomerates. Maybe Apple, if we're lucky.

No way would they let Apple buy XM or Sirius. That would be anticompetetive. Oh, wait, they don't compete. Sorry.

It seems like the time is ripe

"To put this in perspective in comparison to the Sirius-XM merger: the Liberty-DirecTV transaction has been on the FCC's clock for 355 days, while Sirius-XM has been on the clock for 248 days.

So at that pace, we have another 3 months or so ahead of us."

An irresponsible post by Ryan. Martin said in the press last month when questioned that he guessed the FCC would decide on the DirecTV/Liberty merger and the Sirius XM merger in the first quarter. The fact that the FCC is moving on Liberty DirecTV before the DOJ has stated anything on it is really a very major point here, and Ryan totally missed it. Ryan also missed the point that Martin stuck to his own prediction of first quarter on this TV deal.

Bad post Ryan. You missed 2 key points. Sorry man.

Here are the 2 key points from Broadcasting and Cable that Ryan missed. These links were posted in the forums -

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6522926.html

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The FCC will try to complete its reviews of the Sirius/XM and Liberty/DirecTV deals by the end of March.
That's according to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. "If I had to guess, I would guess the commission will be trying to address it in the first quarter of this year."
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6530474.html

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Martin had said last month to look for a decision (Liberty/ DirecTV) in the first quarter, although he also said he expected the Department of Justice to come out with its review of the deal first.

He added that he doesn't know what the DOJ has done. "We have coordinated it," he said, "but we have decided that we are going to go forward on this at this time."