I actually like the form letter. It can usually be amended so you can change the wording if you choose. For many people, finding out how to even go about learning who to send a letter to can be a daunting challenge. I filled out a form letter to Roger Goodell about Michael Vick and was able to edit it to my choosing. I'd never have bothered to look into getting his email address w/o the easy link of the form letter and was glad to have a chance to voice an opinion where I otherwise wouldn't have been able to. While I agree it makes it easier to send out a lot of messages from people that may not completely agree with everything in it, it gives a voice to people who would otherwise be to busy to comment or have no idea how to. I also think that any form letter should be viewed as such and put into context. What's the difference between this & being asked to sign a petition? That's all this is after all, an online petition.

whats inherently wrong about this type of crap is that it probably isn't even actual humans completeing and sending in the form letter...who knows where these things are coming from? is a bot going through the phone book and randomly picking out names addresses to send on behalf of? is it Clear Channel filing them on behalf of each of their employees?

what i'd really like to know is how this form letter falls in relation to new developments or whatnot along the timeline so far? did this just happen to pop-up whenever it was announced that there'd be a decision rendered by the end of the quarter or year? did this just happen to pop up when the former FCC head said he doesn't think its a bad thing?

I think we should keep in mind that merger PRO-ponents have been clogging the FCC with letters, as well. Whether they are "form" letters is inconsequential (probably writing letters to FCC is pretty much inconsequential, anyway, unless one has some standing in making remarks).

How is the oponents' writing of form letters one iota different from pro-merger shareholders and listeners going to the respective websites set up by XM/SIRI and making their views known?

Ultimately, one would hope the law will rule the day, NOT the meaningless, anecdotal views of a few letter-writers on one side or the other.

pfreak- the problem with the form letter is that you can also manipulate the system. They NAB can post something like that on their website and say "this is what we sent" then you could modify and change the wording if you wish. The point is you can use it to manipulate the system if you don't write the letter on your own chances are the issue is not that important to you. So let it be decided by the people who do care and may benefit negatively or positively from the issue.

THESE ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE!! THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT

Filed on Behalf of: Alan
Filed By: Kirshbom
Attorney/Author Name: Alan
Date Posted Online: 07/30/07
Complete Mailing Address:
11800 W. grange Ave
hales Corners, WI 53130
Stop the merger. Consumers benefit from choices in the marketplace. If this merger succeeds,
consumers will lose! Support fair business practices. Vote against the merger.

Filed on Behalf of: Alan Kirshbom
Attorney/Author Name: Alan Kirshbom
Date Posted Online: 08/15/07
Complete Mailing Address:
11800 W. grange Ave
Hales Corners, WI 53130
I oppose the merger. What happened to fair competition, consumerrights. What about the violations regarding cross compatibilty of equiptment. This merger is bull. Don't let it happen.

Notice how Alan Kirshbom filed two comments; one with his correct name, the other separating 'Alan' and 'Kirshbom' into different fields.

And as an added extra bonus:
Poster: akirshbom
http://monsterenergy.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4062
Solid Rock
WJJO 94.1 Madison Wisconsin

TELL ME YOU HONESTLY THINK THIS IS "FAIR"

Filed on Behalf of: Samuiel Daiwkins
Attorney/Author Name: Samuiel Daiwkins
Date Posted Online: 08/29/07
Complete Mailing Address:
822 Oxford St
Berkeley, CA 94707

Filed on Behalf of: Saeermuel Dawyyuukins
Attorney/Author Name: Saeermuel Dawyyuukins
Date Posted Online: 08/29/07
Complete Mailing Address:
822 Oxford St
Berkeley, CA 94707.

These two particular opposition form letters were filed on the same date, and appear to be the same person with names spelled differently. Both of these comments are classified as "no description" which characterizes the opposition form letter campaign comprised of approximately 2,500 comments so far.

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_S/threadview?m=me&bn=22318&tid=3123214&mid=3123214&tof=1&frt=3#3123214

Whatever it takes to stop this merger, I'm for. Mel and all the upper echelon of both companies should be ashamed of themselves. I see Gary Parsons is taking 5 million more out of the company for walking away. Disgusting and shameful. Both companies got themselves into their financial messes by their irresponsible spending and poor business ethics, and now they want to ruin the uniqueness of the experience for those of us that have supported the product to further line the upper echelon's pockets. I say no, and would gladly loan a computer and bandwidth to flooding with anti-merger spammails if I knew how to do it.

Stern for 500 million?
Oprah for 50 million for 1/2 hour a week?
Ridiculous spending for baseball and football...both which seemingly have every game on TV every night?
Martha Stewart for another trainload of cash?
Marketing of Opie and Anthony to commercial radio as well as Satellite just as terrestrial talk radio was imploding?

And now it's the government's job to bail them out, all at the expense of us, the paying customer? Hell no.

Down with the merger!

man, am i getting tired of this us vs. them, how can we make our side sound better crap, lets just get this merger answered one way or the other and then move towards that future.

I held out on XM this year (baseball) because of the chance of getting everything in one package. The way i figure it, merger or not, i'm going to have to buy a new receiver (either one that receives both signals if the merger happen, or one for XM if it doesn't) i just want to know if its gonna cost me $17 or $26 a month

I’m another one who’s against the merger. Both companies spent their way into the problems they have. Tough shit for the shareholders. They purchased a speculative product (stock) and now they’re losing money, they want to create a monopoly to bail ‘em out.

No to Karmazan!

No to the merger!

No to a government bail out of bad business practices.

The market place needs 2 competitors. Sorry, an iPod is NOT competing with satellite radio.

I can’t get LIVE content from an iPod, like Fox news/CNN CNN headline news. Air America and America right on XM. Live weather, sports, business information and talk. NONE of it is on my iPod. Everything on my iPod I have to rip or purchase. No way I can fit the level of musical diversity I get from XM on any size iPod.

Nope, sorry. It’s a shitty argument.

I hope the government puts the KAY-BASH on the merger. If they do, I’ll be the first one throwing a party.

In replying to myself, I would tell me that not writing a letter on my own does not mean it doesn't matter to me. The fact is more & more this country is being run by a few letter wrtining fanatics. Most normal people don't have the time or knowledge to track down an address to send a letter they think no one will read. Fanatics don't care, they'll take all the time it takes. It's like Janet Jackson's boob. No one cared. Unfortunately, the majority does not flood the FCC with complaints, but a few fanatics do and get change because of it. Any way to help people have their opinions heard is welcomed by me. Since email is the dominant form of letter today providing a link is easy and can spur people who would otherwise not take the time to speak up.

"Stern for 500 million?
Oprah for 50 million for 1/2 hour a week?
Ridiculous spending for baseball and football...both which seemingly have every game on TV every night?
Martha Stewart for another trainload of cash"

FUNNY how no one has any problem with the insane amount of mergers in TV, Radio, Ect....this is petty cash compaired to what they are paying for the same content on Cable.

No merger! said "Sorry, an iPod is NOT competing with satellite radio."

So, this morning, when I was on my way to work I got tired of Jamie Foxx's interview on Stern and plugged my Iriver H300 into my Aux Input.

My mp3 player competed this morning, and won.

I hate the NAB

"I hope the government puts the KAY-BASH on the merger. If they do, I’ll be the first one throwing a party."
-No merger!

It's time for AA when this seams like a good reason to party

No Merger posted - "No to a government bail out of bad business practices."

Are you retarded? How exactly is this a bailout? What is this merger costing tax payers?

Do you know what a bailout is? Does this look anything like the S&L crisis?

It's so funny that you people are against the merger. We've already seen that the content wouldn't change a bit after a merger. So what are you all so afraid of?

Here;s what you should be afraid of.... if the merger is NOT approved. Because CBS will buy out XM in a blink, and all the music channels will turn into FM without commercials.

"It's time for AA when this seams like a good reason to party"

Um, no. It's time for AA when you assume a party must include alcohol. I suggest you seek out a meeting yourself ;)

"We've already seen that the content wouldn't change a bit after a merger. So what are you all so afraid of?"

Two words: Mel Karmazen. I'm more likely to believe the president of Iran that they're homosexual free, than believe Karmazen's words. He's always been full of shit, and he always will be. Him and that child molester smile of his.

Just like any other big business, the corporate talking heads will tell the government anything they need to in order to get what they want, and then screw the customers.

When the merger goes through (and it will) and programming changes (and it will) I'll be the first one back hear pointing my accusatorial finger.

And it doesn’t matter if it's content YOU don't like. It won't be a valid argument.

Mel in charge of a merged company WILL result in a change of programming at XM. No doubt about it. When it happens, I'll come back and HAW HAW at y'all...

>>When it happens, I'll come back and HAW HAW at y'all...

...when it happens, hundreds of thousands of people, including me, will cancel their subs and put the merged "monopoly" out of business.

who'd be screwing who then?

>>>> We've already seen that the content wouldn't change a bit after a merger.

This remark is obviously ignorant of the facts as we know them. The parties have made a very clear statement that some channels will be eliminated, and quickly, on consummation of the merger. Instead of each XM and Sirius having its own programming, they will share the programming for certain channels (the companies have used the example of the Decades channels), which contrary to Mel's statements, reduces diversity.

Now, in a perfect world, XM's obviously superior music programming would just replace ALL the music programming on Sirius. However, that's not likely. Some XM channels will undoubtedly be eliminated in favor of SIRI's, and some of SIRI's channels will be eliminated in favor of XM's. One can easily come up with 30 or more music channels from each service to be eliminated.

And, there is absolutely NOTHING to stop them from doing this after a merger. Which do you want -- Deeptracks, or The Vault? Whose classical channels do you like? Whose blues and Jazz channels? Everything is on the table.

Linger longer.

No Merger = C3SR. I can bet you C3SR is spamming the FCC's tubes with fake names.

"XM's obviously superior music programming"

I can't get enough of this guy. He claims to be objective, and that he opposes the merger based on "logic", and then makes ridiculously biased claims like this. Hilarious.

I really don't care. On XM or on Sirius, there's always something good playing. It's just music and entertainment, seriously.

From the Onion:
"I'm just worried that Sirius' Top 40 station will be dropped in favor of XM's vastly inferior Top 40."

Here comes some distorted logic from Stack to "prove" his personal opinion ....

No Merger, talk about shitty arguments. Yours are full of straw men and false logic.

>I can’t get LIVE content from an iPod, like Fox news/CNN CNN headline news. Air America and America right on XM. Live weather, sports, business information and talk.

No, but you can get that from terrestrial radio. All cars have this type of radio you should look into it. Local business, sports and weather, it’s fascinating and free. Also, I have Sirius. I can’t get Air America with them so XM and regular radio have exclusive content.

>No way I can fit the level of musical diversity I get from XM on any size iPod.

If I listen to only classic rock and I rip all of my CDs to my MP3 Player, why do I need a station of classic rock? Why are you stuck on IPod? Why not try a Sansa connect with Wifi connections and a Yahoo music subscription. There is some diversity. How about Slacker? What about Pandora? Slacker is coming out with a portable device that can be update via Satellite. What about Podcasts? That is some real music diversity.

>Just like any other big business, the corporate talking heads will tell the government anything they need to in order to get what they want, and then screw the customers.

Yes, you are right. After the merger goes through, they can sit back, relax, light up their cigars and pat each other on the back. Screw the customer. They don’t need to grow subscribers anymore, they merged! Whoo hoo! They can charge whatever they want and customers will keep paying it. No matter what. They don’t have shareholders to answer to now, they merged. They don’t have to get exclusive content or manufacturer agreements to help get and keep subscribers, the y merged. Your right they don’t need subscribers…
Oh wait, that doesn’t make much sense.

>Mel in charge of a merged company WILL result in a change of programming at XM. No doubt about it
In the words of my ten year old Son, “Duh.” Why do we need two 70’s channels?

>Two words: Mel Karmazen. I'm more likely to believe the president of Iran that they're homosexual free, than believe Karmazen's words. He's always been full of shit, and he always will be. Him and that child molester smile of his.

Oh, I see. You are a Mel hater. That is a “you” problem, not a merger issue. You should just have stated that first instead of your shitty arguments.

>>>>>>> He claims to be objective, and that he opposes the merger based on "logic", and then makes ridiculously biased claims like this.

I'm totally objective about the content and I have judged XM's to be better, at least in music and sports. Objectively, though, Sirius has Stern, so they obviously win the off-color talk category by a mile.

> Why not try a Sansa connect with Wifi connections and a Yahoo music subscription. There is some diversity. How about Slacker? What about Pandora? Slacker is coming out with a portable device that can be update via Satellite. What about Podcasts? That is some real music diversity.

Do you have WiFi in your car? How about in the middle of the Grand Canyon, while taking a nice scenic hike?

Does anyone know when Slacker will have their portable device available? Nope. Does anyone know how long it'll take the satellite car kit to become a reality after the portable device becomes available? Nope. Until these two have answers, I don't consider Slacker to be competition.

Podcasts? Goes back to the WiFi issue... you can't update your podcasts without an internet connection.

> I really don't care. On XM or on Sirius, there's always something good playing. It's just music and entertainment, seriously.
Yeah, I suppose. And with both services, there's twice as much good stuff playing. So when there's only one satellite radio service, and all they play is the same crap over and over again, what do ya turn to? Your iPod, which also has the same stuff you've listened to over and over?

Keep 'em separate.

>>> No, but you can get that from terrestrial radio.

You cannot get FNC or CNN or CNBC or Weather Channel or C-SPAN or lots of other sat radio channels from terrestrial radio.

>>> If I listen to only classic rock and I rip all of my CDs to my MP3 Player, why do I need a station of classic rock? Why are you stuck on IPod? Why not try a Sansa connect with Wifi connections and a Yahoo music subscription. There is some diversity. How about Slacker? What about Pandora? Slacker is coming out with a portable device that can be update via Satellite. What about Podcasts? That is some real music diversity.

First, because you have to rip all of your CDs, or purchase music, to get it. That's not radio. Slacker? Pandora? Don't make me laugh. These aren't even legitimate products at this point and they will never ever be capable of delivering of what you can get at XM -- real time broadcast of news, music, sports. Duh.

>>> Why do we need two 70’s channels?

This is an example of how idiotic the pro-merger forces can be. Personally, I do not need even one 70s channel. But XM's and SIRI's 70s channels are radically different, as are their 60s channels, and the rest of their channels. There is NOT ONE music channel I listen to on XM that I want to see replaced by the Sirius counterpart. And there are plenty of people out there who feel the same way about Sirius.

IN recent memory, when the FCC talks about "diversity" they aren't talking about what's playing on a given station at a given time. They are talking about diversity in OWNERSHIP -- fully comprehending that when you have common ownership you are not going to have content diversity.

Having two 70s channels gives us a choice. That's why I want two. If I *DID* listen to the 70s channel, I would rather have two to choose from than one. Talk about DUH.

but wait... With a merger benifiting Sirius much much more than it would XM and with aproximatly 2800 retail investors in XM and 600,000 to 900,000 in sirius.... wouldent the original flood of pro merger letters be deceptive as well?

How about this...10,000 opinions at 14,000,000 subscribers. Not exactly a majority is it?

Mel Karmazan, The reason why I went with Satellite Radio to begin with. His playlists and 20 minuites per hour of commecrials is what ruined K Rock and WNEW here in the Jersey/NYC area and is why I went sat rad.

Now this guy may run my "Haven" of musical diversity? I will not cancel my subscription... but I will not renew it either.

The Death of Sat rad as we know it is almost here. Why would any true listener to Sat Rad encourage the merger?

"So when there's only one satellite radio service, and all they play is the same crap over and over again, what do ya turn to? Your iPod, which also has the same stuff you've listened to over and over?"

You're making the exact case why Sirius/XM won't have a monopoly! If they cut programming quality, people will just switch back to iPods (or some mix of free radio, iPods, and internet radio). They will still need to get a lot more subscribers, and the merger doesn't suddenly give them the power to ignore their business model (more subscribers = more money).

>Do you have WiFi in your car? How about in the middle of the Grand Canyon, while taking a nice scenic hike?
>Podcasts? Goes back to the WiFi issue... you can't update your podcasts without an internet connection.
Nope. I also don’t have Satellite in the middle of my office where my desk is located. I went to a cabin on a lake in Maryland. I couldn’t get the Boombox antenna far enough out from the house to point the antenna north to get a signal. What do you recommend then? I opted to listen to radio replays stored on my Stiletto.
I know it wasn’t real time and it really hampered my listening experience. The DJ said it was Tuesday but it was really Friday. We all wept a little when that happened.

>You cannot get FNC or CNN or CNBC or Weather Channel or C-SPAN or lots of other sat radio channels from terrestrial radio.

Those are television stations. Do you really think that those people that listen to those channels are hurt by the merger? Are there people out there that are saying, “I was really on the fence about Satellite radio until I found out I could get C-SPAN in my car”.

>This is an example of how idiotic the pro-merger forces can be. Personally, I do not need even one 70s channel. But XM's and SIRI's 70s channels are radically different, as are their 60s channels, and the rest of their channels. There is NOT ONE music channel I listen to on XM that I want to see replaced by the Sirius counterpart. And there are plenty of people out there who feel the same way about Sirius.

You’re right, I am an idiot. I don’t care what would get replaced. If I don’t like what is on Alt Nation, I switch to Left Of Center, Lithium or First Wave. I don’t feel like my listening experience is diminished. Apparently you would.

>IN recent memory, when the FCC talks about "diversity" they aren't talking about what's playing on a given station at a given time. They are talking about diversity in OWNERSHIP -- fully comprehending that when you have common ownership you are not going to have content diversity.
Refresh my memory, when was the last time the FCC opposed Clear Channel buying one of its 1200 stations? I really don’t know. Fortunately, the new owners are going to sell off about 400 of their stations. So you will get a little of that diversity you crave. To say that there is no competition is ludicrous.

I notice no one can explain why the merged company would want to alienate subscribers with high fees. Or why they would not want to grow subscribers by signing exclusive content.

">>> No, but you can get that from terrestrial radio.

>>> You cannot get FNC or CNN or CNBC or Weather Channel or C-SPAN or lots of other sat radio channels from terrestrial radio.
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i cant get Stern on Terr radio either, but then again i cannot get Rush on sat, i cannot get savage on sat, i cannot get (insert name) on sat...

they BOTH have exclusive agreements stupid

>>> i cant get Stern on Terr radio either, but then again i cannot get Rush on sat, i cannot get savage on sat, i cannot get (insert name) on sat...

>>> they BOTH have exclusive agreements stupid

Well, STUPID. The guy said he could it on satellite radio. And I corrected him. Then you go off on this unrelated rant.

There are certain content items that are available only on sat radio. If satellite radio subscribers want to pay for it, fine. Until terrestrial radio can find a business model that makes content acquisition like C-SPAN, FNC, CNN, TWC, etc., viable on terrestrial, the argument that all this stuff is available on terrestrial is hollow and without foundation.

STUPID.

My question is if they do merge will StackPointer stop posting. I have nothing against you Stack but if they merge you will probably cancel and thus your opinions will not matter.

I wouldn't cancel my service but I would swear off owning shares in in the merged entity. I do think I'll cut back the number of receivers I have, just a bit.

Today, XM has some investment potential. That will be destroyed by the merger when XM inherits SIRI's problems.

>Until terrestrial radio can find a business model that makes content acquisition like C-SPAN, FNC, CNN, TWC, etc., viable on terrestrial, the argument that all this stuff is available on terrestrial is hollow and without foundation.

What about those people who actually do only listen to the stations you listed. Would they not benefit by the a la carte pricing of $9.99 for the sports-news-talk package? I would imagine that the eggheads who listen to cspan while sharpening their pointy heads, might pull out their HP calculators and figure out that paying less is a benefit of the merger.

And if you bothered to get out your crayons and do some basic math you'd realize you bill is going to go up with a la carte. Unless you only want music your bill is going up. You will not be getting NFL on XM. You will not be getting MLB on Sirius. Both leagues are not contractually obligated to allow simulcasting to a merged company. Both leagues would demand much more money for those rights. That of course doesn't include the cost of a new tuner or the loss you incur when your old tuners are no longer of any use.

"If I don’t like what is on Alt Nation, I switch to Left Of Center, Lithium or First Wave. I don’t feel like my listening experience is diminished." Perhaps you don't but many people would. And what will you do if all those stations are taken away from you or drastically altered?

You probably wouldn't have such reception issues if you didn't have sirius & that piece of shit brick they call the Stiletto. That thing needs its own radio transmitter tower to work. You could always go online & listen.

You could load all your classic rock CD's to an iPod & not need a classic rock station? Really? You have as huge a music library as XM? I hear music on XM all the time that I don't own, especially in my favorite catagory's. iPod & SDARS are not even close to the same thing.

And a la carte waters down the entire experience of SDARS. It makes it less attractive to the 1st time user. Wow, commercial free music. It's the breadth of diversity in programming accross the entire platform that makes it so great. If you only want to listen to your CD's do so and fuck off. At least right now if XM or Sirius does something I don't like or changes my service I have an option where I can get most everything I was already getting by switching to the other company. If they merge that choice is taken away and I'm only left with the option to cancel. Some choice.

Pfreak

I too, have an option if I don't like the merged company. I too, will choose the option "where I can get *most* everything I was already getting". For me I will choose Internet Radio, iPod and Regular radio. For you nothing else will compare to your XM experience. I get it. I have seen too many people on both sides that have spent all of their time shitting on the other company that the merger will blow thier tiny minds.

Who listens to CDs anymore? Oh yeah, My Dad. Fucking off as ordered.

... waters down the whole experience of SDARS. Hahaha.. redues the whole out of box experience too. Where's my C-SPAN?

>>> What about those people who actually do only listen to the stations you listed. Would they not benefit by the a la carte pricing of $9.99 for the sports-news-talk package?

Sure, they would benefit -- for now. But when you hand a company an unregulated monopoly, is it not reasonable to expect that they will some day take advantage of the situation?

Anyone who thinks the ala carte package is a gift from the bottom of Mel's heart is a bit naive. This is a gimmick to win approval from the Feds. Once that approval is given, XM/SIRI will be a monopoly with all the attendant benefits. Once again, I quote Mel from Ad Age, April 22, 2005:

"You are dealing with two companies -- it would be great if there was a monopoly, but the second best thing to a monopoly is a duopoly".

This remark, made less than one year before merger negotiations began, simply leaves no doubt as to where Mel and Parsons want to take this business and their motivations for doing so.

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