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[Knightstalker]

Cheerleaders

[Jonny Utah]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

[Frank Rossi]

Cheerleaders

Shouldn't you be at the Garden?

[Frank Rossi]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

[Jonny Utah]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

[Knightstalker]

Cheerleaders

Shouldn't you be at the Garden?

I will be heading out soon, waiting on MKS to call, then it is off to see Toothless Eddy and Hairless Dave.

[Frank Rossi]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

[union89]

Cheerleaders

Shouldn't you be at the Garden?

I will be heading out soon, waiting on MKS to call, then it is off to see Toothless Eddy and Hairless Dave.

Great show....enjoy...skip the random Marley kid opener.

[Jonny Utah]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

Ok.  Im sure the music industry would have some sort of say into how "free" music gets around though?  I dont even know how Satellite radio works in terms of playing songs off of copyrighted CDs.  They have to officially buy the album or single or something?

[Frank Rossi]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

Ok.  Im sure the music industry would have some sort of say into how "free" music gets around though?  I dont even know how Satellite radio works in terms of playing songs off of copyrighted CDs.  They have to officially buy the album or single or something?

In the case of webcasts, there is a fee now for stations that webcast -- although higher educational institutions are exempted for now, in general.  Each station would have the right to limit its number of available streams if the desire to avoid any related fees became prevalent.  However, the underlying company could also work out a deal with RIAA to lower costs/royalties.

[labart96]

k+ on the 12x quote string.

impressive.

[dewcrew88]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

Ok.  Im sure the music industry would have some sort of say into how "free" music gets around though?  I dont even know how Satellite radio works in terms of playing songs off of copyrighted CDs.  They have to officially buy the album or single or something?

In the case of webcasts, there is a fee now for stations that webcast -- although higher educational institutions are exempted for now, in general.  Each station would have the right to limit its number of available streams if the desire to avoid any related fees became prevalent.  However, the underlying company could also work out a deal with RIAA to lower costs/royalties.

I'll make it 13x, tgp.

I would love to get involved in this type of venture.... I don't have any capital, but it's a great idea. 

[Frank Rossi]

did Sirius and XM merge? RT doesn't understand what's going on. If they did, does that mean that RT, a loyal XM subscriber, will now have access to Sirius' "Hair Nation" station?

I heard the deal was falling through. (anti-trust stuff or something like that, or had to be approved by the FCC?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te/sirius_xm_4

I dont see why the gov would care about this.  I mean, no one is stopping other companies from getting their own satellites right?

I think the only two companies anyone's ever heard of merging and therefore grabbing 99.99999% of the market is a pretty strong discouragement...

Im not that up on anti-trust statutes, but I would think some company could at least come up with some cheap music for $5 a month......

My guess for the next generation of radio...WiMax radio.  You can listen to any radio station in the world from your WiMax receiver (in-home or in-car) -- and an under-company would create feeds to each one for a monthly fee.  It would devistate satellite radio as soon as WiMax becomes nationally available.  Anyone with me on doing some VC for this?

How would you get the radio signals from all over the world though? And if you could do that cheap, why are cell phones still so dam expensive!

WiMax is just wide-area WiFi -- so the company putting the links together would be using the already-existing Internet feeds to do it and firing those to customers in a sensible, categorized way (perhaps the radio could have a "region" or "state" selecter, and then a selecter for zip code/city...and then list all the stations in or near that zone.  This would also allow all college radio stations on the Web to have their games heard by their fans in cars -- removing the need for a wide-range commercial radio station carrier in Division III.

Ok I get it.  You would still have to be paying for some sort of internet carrier though......

Right, but you wouldn't be limited to 100 stations - ANY online station would be available for you.  The underlying company would also be in a position to work with stations to get them to create CD-quality streams so that the quality is crisp for most, if not all stations picked up.

Ok.  Im sure the music industry would have some sort of say into how "free" music gets around though?  I dont even know how Satellite radio works in terms of playing songs off of copyrighted CDs.  They have to officially buy the album or single or something?

In the case of webcasts, there is a fee now for stations that webcast -- although higher educational institutions are exempted for now, in general.  Each station would have the right to limit its number of available streams if the desire to avoid any related fees became prevalent.  However, the underlying company could also work out a deal with RIAA to lower costs/royalties.

I'll make it 13x, tgp.

I would love to get involved in this type of venture.... I don't have any capital, but it's a great idea. 

DewCrew could be our VP in Charge of New Sales Avenues -- and our official advertising editor.  We could give you shares in this new conglomorae, DewCrew.

[theoriginalupstate]

GOD STOP HITTING THE QUOTE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!

[pg04]

GOD STOP HITTING THE QUOTE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!

It looks like an aerial view of a temple.