David Rehr of the NAB has filed yet another letter of opposition with the FCC. Today’s letter, which was written and delivered today seems to focus on the channel set aside offered by Sirius and Xm. The letter seems to have a tone of defeat to it, now looking more… → Read More
C3SR Continuing With Interoperability Issue
Via hand delivery, C3SR, also known as the NAB coalition, picked up today where the NAB left off this past Friday. You may recall that the NAB hand delivered Mr. Hartleib’s comments to the commission. Piling on today, the NAB coalition filed yet another ex parte with Amy… → Read More
Tate Vote Possible By Weeks End
Washington Analysis analyst George Reed Dellinger, one of the more accurate regulatory analysts that has been following the proposed merger between Sirius and XM, issued a report today indicating that the decisive vote of Commissioner Tate could be delivered as early as the end of the week. According… → Read More
Satellite Plays Deal Or No Deal
Have you ever seen the television game show Deal or No Deal? The show is hosted by Howie Mandel, and the concept is simple. There are 25 brief cases containing amounts of cash ranging from a single penny to $1,000,000. The contestant picks a case with an unknown… → Read More
Stifel’s Levin Sees Merger End Game As Close
A day after comments by Martin in the Washington Post were viewed as positive by the street, the FCC chairman issued more neutral talk today that centered on the possibility of additional or more stringent concessions being considered in the merger process. During all of this, Stifel analyst… → Read More
Cartfulls Of Shareholder Dollars
In what has to be one of the most interesting developments of the day, Georgetown Partners has stated, “Georgetown Partners adamantly opposes delivering to Sirius cartfulls of taxpayer dollars by granting spectrum flexibility for it to broadcast television, while at the same time Sirius denies that there is… → Read More
Sirius And XM Get Face Time With GOP Commissioners
On the heels of a positive Washington Post article where Chairman Martin seemed to hint at merger approval, we were informed that Sirius Satellite Radio and hopeful merger partner XM Satellite Radio had meetings with the offices of all three of the republican FCC commissioners on July 9,… → Read More
Miller Tabak Maintains Buy But Lowers Target Price
David Joyce, analyst for Miller Tabak issued a report today that begins to take into account some of the guidance issued by Sirius last week. Joyce sees Sirius and XM both as buys, but has lowered his short term price target on SIRI to $3.00 and long term… → Read More
Citi Does Not See OEM Meltdown
Citi analyst Tony Wible published a note today highlighting comments from auto sector analyst Itay Michaeali. I simple terms the analyst does not see a situation where any of the OEM’s claim bankruptcy. While they do see a need for the “Big Three” to have a cash infusion,… → Read More
GM and Toyota Balk at HD Requirement
In an interesting development in the proposed merger of Sirius and XM, General Motors and Toyota jointly issued a letter to the FCC stating their opposition to the requirement that HD be mandated in all SDARS receivers. The letter states, ” The proponents of the proposed condition are… → Read More
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