Sirius is making headway in merging with XM Radio.
No one seemed to be asking at the Anti Trust hearing whether or not Sirius
will continue to maintain the XM aviation weather services.
Or if they do, at what cost to the users ?
I would imagine that this will be another User Fee that is going to affect
our costs of flying safely.

--
Roy
Piper Archer N5804F

Roy N5804F wrote:
>
> Sirius is making headway in merging with XM Radio.
> No one seemed to be asking at the Anti Trust hearing whether or not Sirius
> will continue to maintain the XM aviation weather services.
> Or if they do, at what cost to the users ?
> I would imagine that this will be another User Fee that is going to affect
> our costs of flying safely.
>

Oh.. gosh.. I guess we can just go back to how it was a few years ago,
where we had to fly without real-time in-cockpit weather on a MFD. Oh..
wait.. thats how I fly now.

I dont see any change to the cost of my flying, since I don't use their
product. Safety is in the eye of the beholder.

"Dave S" wrote:

>
> Oh.. gosh.. I guess we can just go back to how it was a few years ago,
> where we had to fly without real-time in-cockpit weather on a MFD.

God forbid!

Now that I've seen the Promised Land, I NEVER want to go back.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

"Roy N5804F" > wrote in message
ink.net...
>
> Sirius is making headway in merging with XM Radio.
> No one seemed to be asking at the Anti Trust hearing whether or not Sirius
> will continue to maintain the XM aviation weather services.
> Or if they do, at what cost to the users ?
> I would imagine that this will be another User Fee that is going to affect
> our costs of flying safely.

If the XM Weather product has a sound business model, why would they get rid
of it? They could change the pricing but XM could do the same thing. As far
as I know, Sirius didn't have any competing products.

Marco

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:45:55 GMT, "Roy N5804F"
> wrote:

>
>Sirius is making headway in merging with XM Radio.
>No one seemed to be asking at the Anti Trust hearing whether or not Sirius
>will continue to maintain the XM aviation weather services.
>Or if they do, at what cost to the users ?
>I would imagine that this will be another User Fee that is going to affect
>our costs of flying safely.

"I think", which of course means I don't know for sure, but I think
the merger "IF it goes through with the FCC's blessing which I don't
think they have yet" would merely be a consolidation which would
eliminate duplicate services and possibly non profitable ones as well,
but that would happen whether they merge or not. So for the time being
I'd not be too concerned about XM weather.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

On 3/2/2007 11:10:45 AM, "Dan Luke" wrote:

> Now that I've seen the Promised Land, I NEVER want to go back.

Around these northeast US parts, the saying is more like this: Once you have
sex you can never go back to holding hands.


--
Peter

"Roy N5804F" > wrote in news:DdMFh.7884
:

> Sirius is making headway in merging with XM Radio.
> No one seemed to be asking at the Anti Trust hearing whether or not Sirius
> will continue to maintain the XM aviation weather services.
> Or if they do, at what cost to the users ?
> I would imagine that this will be another User Fee that is going to affect
> our costs of flying safely.

The way I see it, Sirius has superior programming, and XM has superior
marketing and distribution. That said, I doubt Sirius will just shut down XM
altogether - too much equipment out there to make that possible. Especially
where XM has unique programming that Sirius doesn't have (ie: Aviation
Weather).

I do rather hope that they put that new wave station on XM, since my car gets
XM and the new wave stations on XM are pretty bad.