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Sirius Predicts Big Jumps In Q2 Profits, Subs TOP STORY (SkyReport) -- As part of its preliminary second quarter reporting today, Sirius said it expects to post a 25 percent increase in revenues during the quarter and will trim its losses to $24 million from the $79 million it reported in the...

Great concise, insightful feedback...! Thanks! But I'm still concerned about the precedence it establishes...

One would assume, they'd combine services... as a cost saving measure...? Both platforms would fuse into one, share all the same content... Now with this, so called bundling, XM + 10 Sirius for more per/month, it doesn't appear that's their immediate strategy.

Regarding nepotism and other aspects of the merger... I see both companies spent well beyond their mean's... How and why? By adding and signing a seemingly endless list of exclusive programming, that were, in many cases, deep in niche categories, in my opinion, were simply representations of...

I apologize... I should have said, moving towards profitability... I'm upset... I think it, the wrong decision, as it will set, the wrong precedence... opening a whole new can of worms... The whole thing, to me, reeks of nepotism... Next... it could, potentially be, DirecTV and Dish... All...

Sirius was profitable, XM wasn't. XM kept spending and spending to the point they took out another note in the last couple of days for close to $700 Million to keep them on the air... (BTW, I'm a XM sub, as it was the only service available w/my Prius that would work through the complete...

BREAKING NEWS: FCC Clears XM/Sirius Merger (SkyReport) As expected, by a 3-2 vote, commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission late Friday approved the merger between satellite radio companies XM and Sirius, with conditions. In a statement, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said, "The...

EchoStar 2 Deemed a Total Loss (SkyReport) While DISH Network celebrated the launch of a new satellite, the EchoStar XI that was lofted into space late Tuesday, the DBS company lamented the loss of another bird. The company disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing released...

Under The Bridge (The Bridge) Your Government at Work: Ah, the digital transition. All that planning. All that money. All those coupons ... and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is apparently having trouble with that 90-day window concept. When the big...

Where's All The HDTV? Max Number of HD Feeds by Cable Lineup

Market-Driven HD At Showtime (The Bridge) And then there was Showtime, which is leveraging its HD catalog as a way to impress both subscribers (with a variety of HD content) and distributors (with a bandwidth saving service package). In addition to pure MPEG2 and, later this year, MPEG4...

Starz Looking to HD VOD (The Bridge) Although the HD move at Starz is somewhat more modest than HBO’s 26-feed onslaught – the premium net currently offers five of its six linear channels in HD including Starz East, Starz West, Starz Kids & Family, Starz Edge and Starz Comedy – it’s just as...

High-Def Box Office? (The Bridge) With all 26 of its network and multiplex feeds available in high-definition and plans in place to launch all of its content on HD VOD later this year, HBO is the unchallenged big fish in the premium high-def space. And network execs wouldn’t have it any...

HD at A Premium How High-Def Is Changing The Marketplace for Premium Programmers By Timothy Sprinkle (The Bridge) It’s hard to talk to anyone in the television industry these days without facing some tough questions about high-definition content. Who has it? Who doesn’t? What kind...

The (Terrestrial) Digital TV Revolution Global Multiplatform Players - July 1, 2008 (The Bridge) While U.S. markets argue over converter coupons, levels of consumer knowledge, and how long one service should be forced to carry the analog versions of another, much of the rest of the world...

NETWORKS & DEMOGRAPHICS June 30, 2008, 11:37 am Harsh News for Networks, As Well as for People Over 50 By BRIAN STELTER (NY Times) “Women’s Murder Club,” above, starring Laura Harris and Paula Newsome, was the oldest-skewing show on ABC last season. It was canceled. “Supernanny,” below...