The XM/Sirius merger is a little different than a Dish Network/DirecTV merger. XM and Sirius make their own content, so they can't really monopolize their own content. Satellite TV companies buys the right to use existing channels on their service like Cable TV does. While I don't think it is a monopoly because they do compete with Cable TV, I doubt this would be a good thing for consumers.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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The XM/Sirius merger is a little different than a Dish Network/DirecTV merger. XM and Sirius make their own content, so they can't really monopolize their own content. Satellite TV companies buys the right to use existing channels on their service like Cable TV does. While I don't think it is a monopoly because they do compete with Cable TV, I doubt this would be a good thing for consumers.