The National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) recently called on the FCC to approve the proposed merger of XM and Sirius.
"Today, satellite radio is a mere 3.4 percent of the overall radio market – a market dominated by men. A stronger satellite offering can increase the audience for satellite radio," said Susan Scanlan, NCWO Chair. "A more affordable and more diverse satellite radio market would be valuable not only to our members, but also to women across the United States."
The NCWO is a coalition of over 200 women’s organizations and representing over 11 million American women. They join other women's groups like Women Impacting Public Policy and Women Involved in Farm Economics in support of the merger.
"Expanding the audience and diversity of satellite radio programming would give women a better opportunity to access new sources of entertainment and enlightenment," added Scanlan. "Diversity in programming is a critical component of this merger, and should not be overlooked by members of the FCC Board as they begin their review process."
Another set of Mel Kool-aid drinkers (sigh).
one has to wonder what you're drinking on and who its cumming from. pun intended.
I look forward to the merger just to see the literally dozens of Greg and Tony fans like espnjason above cancel their subs.
For the most part, lately it seems to be O/A, their sheepish "pest" fans and the NAB that oppose this merger.
Granted, there are some folks with legitimate concerns about the merger, but there seem to be less and less every day as the cunts at the NAB bitch and moan more and more. They are seriously hated (at least in cyberspace) and with good reason.
I look forward to getting Stern, the NFL and MLB on one radio service.
Zero. Point. Zero.
FYI, I had XM long before O&A came on. So the argument that I got XM just for O&A is moot.
The ONLY reason why siriots want the merger is just so they can have the MLB, thats it.
The ONLY reason, jason. You keep thinking that. I would rather listen to terrestrial radio than to baseball on the radio. I can barely watch baseball on tv.
And btw, read what you wrote. You make it sound like XM doesn't have any worthy product besides MLB. What you wrote is kind of funny actually.
>>"The ONLY reason why siriots want the merger is just so they can have the MLB, thats it."
So how is that a bad reason? Sirius has everything I want except MLB (which I could - and do - live without, anyway). It would be nice to have access to it. In my mind, this merger is really about Sirius acquiring the MLB license and discarding any overlapping XM content in favor of their own...
I hear some of the XM music stations are better than the equivalent Sirius versions, though I'll have to take other commenter's words on that. I'm sure some compromises will be made either way but it would be nice if they blend the differing music programming philosophies and try to satisfy users of both services.
I've been involved in mergers before and usually employees of one company or another (and not necessarily the company driving the merger) end up fucked.
Such is life...
Mike, just because you and other siriots want the MLB on sirius makes it ok to endorse a merger that will put hundreds of people out of work (due to duplication, likely from the XM side) and throw away hundreds of millions of dollars in research, development and existing transmission infrastructure?
Plain and simple, that is beyond selfish.
I still don't see anything good coming out of the merger. And if you and other siriots think that everyone is going to be one big happy family if the merger passes, you are sadly mistaken.
The only one that really wants the merger is sirius and their subs. XM can live without it and not many XM subs want the merger.