XM/Sirius’s Major Competitors Say They Have No Competition

by on April 4, 2007

My friend Tim Carney points out the absurdity of the NAB’s lobbying campaign against the XM-Sirius merger:

The National Association of Broadcasters has paid top dollar for the Carmel Group to produce a paper arguing that XM and Sirius satellite radio should not be allowed to merge, the NY Post is reporting (and Drudge is linking). The crux of their argument is that a joint XM-Sirius will not face competition. This implies that digital radio and terrestrial radio generally do not compete with satellite radio. If the don’t compete, then why is NAB spending so much to block the merger?

Frankly, the fact that NAB is so opposed is the strongest argument I can think of for allowing it.

Also, check out Tim’s excellent article in the Examiner on the NAB’s lobbying campaign.

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Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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