Not quite. Look at the situation now. If you buy a car from GM or some Japanese brands, then you get XM. You may want to listen to Howard Stern, but you are SOL unless you buy an aftermarket Sirius radio. If you buy a Ford or Chrysler, the you get Sirius. Again, you may want to listen to Major League Baseball, but you are SOL unless you buy an aftermarket XM radio. With cable, your choices of wired connections are limited by where you live although there places where you have a choice of cable providers. However, your choice of TV set does not tie you in to anyone.

Satellite radio post merger promises the same content available to everyone. This is a far better situation than you have now. And there will be choice. Just as satellite TV, IPTV, free broadcast TV, and even DVDs and Blu-ray compete with cable, so too will satellite radio have competition. It will come from the remaining life of analog radio, digital broadcast radio, iPods, CDs, and other technologies still in the planning stages.

Again, for the record, satrad is for idiots.

Have you ever used it. If you had, then you would know that satellite radio has programming available nowhere else. Before the merger, customers of either service can choose from virtually every music genre. When the two services are combined, customers will have available every Major League Baseball game, every NFL game, every NBA game, every NHL game, every NCAA Division I-A basketball game, every Division I FBS football game, and so much more.

In this most interesting political year in decades, XM Radio’s POTUS-08 (Channel 130) is a godsend.

Idiots? I think not.