Sirius XM being stalked by Dish?

[minorthr]

It is a brilliant business move. Buy the debt refuse to give them any conditions on refinancing it when it comes due. Make them declare bankruptcy. Buy up all the assets and you have XM/Sirius without any of the debt. Profit

[JosephB]

Whether or not DirecTV kept the XM content would first depend on whether or not Charlie kept XM going period. Then again he might and then pull the content himself and not even offer to sell it to DirecTV. I don't think it would be a big deal for DirecTV to go back to Music Choice anyway.

[Claude Greiner]

Yea, don't pay your satellite TV bill and they shut off your satellite radio

But seriously, I bet they want to use the satellite bandwith to offer a few channels of mobile video.

[JDGJr]

at least i have no expectation of Sirius adding any new channels.

[mike123abc]

It is better for Echostar to buy the debt than the shares. Charlie is buying the huge debt at a big discount. If he bought the shares directly he would essentially end up with the debt at full price since people would expect him to pay with is vast assets.

Echostar would also be able to renegotiate all the contracts by buying just the assets.

I could see a video combination being done with this.

[jegrant]

Hopefully Charlie would be able to negotiate some of the more expensive content like Stern & Oprah downward, but perhaps could also offer them TV deals in exchange for charging less for radio. What if Stern got "Howard TV" as a 24/7 channel (or two) on E*? Fans could watch him live on TV.

Would Oprah perhaps be willing to offer her radio channel to SXM cheaper if E* would also carry the new Oprah Winfrey Network (TV channel)?

Think of the synergy! Charlie could offer a "multi media" package for both content producers & consumers.

[Stargazer]

A lot coming into play here. Mobile video brought different ways - XM/Sirius satellite, Slingbox, combination? I imagine that there is not enough bandwidth on the XM/Sirius to do broadband plus it would have to transmit back to the satellite.

Renegotiation could mean having the right to offer the audio for the stations he currently offers via Dish Network. I can see it now ... Classic Audio Bronze 100 $6.99 Classic Audio Silver 200 $11.99 Whatever they call the 250 package now $16.99 AEP $24.99 Dont forget the HD Audio for $5 more per month haha.

[drdroo]

Echostar has basically coast to coast 700mhz licenses too. Could start a 700mhz service with an antenna on every Sirius or XM repeater. You'd cover a good percentage of the POP and could go from there.

[piercy67]

would Directv probably drop Sirius-XM if Echostar buys them?

[HDRoberts]

Both seem to have 12.5 Mhz of s-band bandwidth. Any thoughts as to how much video could be crammed in there? Perhaps Charlie's plan is to scrap the radio altogether and have mobile video exclusively.