As always SeekingAlpha has a transcript of today's earnings call. Here's a key quote from the call from Hugh Panero:
"XM and Sirius today are continuing to operate as separate businesses and we will do so until the merger is finished. I want to emphasize that we are running XM as if there is no merger and we will provide our customers with as great service today as we have in the past. No consumer will have an obsolete radio whether they signed up for service a year ago or sign up today or tomorrow."
Read the rest here.
As someone else mentioned before...while the radios will still work, it does not mean we will be able to recieve both services will every channel.
I still don't see why the 'simulcast' method won't work - operate all channels as normal in their respective studios (the channels that survive the merger, anyway), then send the signals of the respective company's channels back and forth and simply broadcast on native equipment.
If they can do it with a terrestrial broadcast, why not another satellite company?
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