Let them merge. It will be the best of both radios in one company. Stern Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

F**k Stern, O and A Party Rocks.

opie and anthony are garbage they always cry about howard stern and howard doesnt even care about them since they dont bring anything to the table but a few thousand listeners why howard brings millions lol....they even asked howard to back them up over the one month suspen. they got as well...back to the topic got side tracked as for the merger would be great figuring u get the best of both worlds nascar baseball football tons of commercial free music stations an so on with comdey stations cant go wrong with merging and with 12-13 million susbscribers maybe prices would drop with it .....gotta love real free radio

I say let em merge. Give me football on the radio when im driving and whatever else good they have on Sirius.

Here's my impresion of stern, "can I see your boobs". O&A weren't asking for sterns help, I dont know how he spun it, they wanted to stop all the bullsh*t and go after the f**ks that are getting shock jocks fired. There suspention happend a week after that. O&A has a 36mill. listener base, your right got to love free radio. ;)

I say as long as the service does not go down and actually improves why not let them get together.

I would love to get the best of both services, my only concern is that the price doesn't rise.

merge, then add a crap load of commericals to make Xm free just like regular radio!

The price will surely go up. They could name their price, since there wont be any competition between them if they merge.

The price is less of an issue, since it's still determined by the market. But further competition/innovation might be serverely hindered. I'd say prevent merger, let them compete by producing higher quality stuff. Consumers' gain eventually.

Why are my tax dollars being spent to manage private companies??? LEAVE THEM ALONE! If they merge, the consumers will decide, JUST LIKE THEY'RE DECIDING RIGHT NOW. What's the point of asking opinions on something that doesn't even exist? If the consumers like the merge, the company will survive & adapt. If they don't, the merged company will fail, just like the 2 of them are doing right now.

Originally posted by Steve83:

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Why are my tax dollars being spent to manage private companies??? LEAVE THEM ALONE! If they merge, the consumers will decide, JUST LIKE THEY'RE DECIDING RIGHT NOW. What's the point of asking opinions on something that doesn't even exist? If the consumers like the merge, the company will survive & adapt. If they don't, the merged company will fail, just like the 2 of them are doing right now.

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It's not as simple as that. Monopoly is bad for the market, bad for consumers, and govern't gets less as taxes. It's just anti-trust at work here.

If they merge, the subcription price will probably go up.

If the price stays the same or goes down, then I'm all for it.