Satellite-radio companies Sirius and XM, who are hoping to speed their path toward merging,
announced yesterday that they'd allow customers to buy their programming a la carte through two plans: the first plan, which would cost $6.99 a month, would allow listeners to subscribe to 50 "nonpremium" (read: music and talk radio) channels, with a 25-cents-per-channel overage fee, while the second plan would cost $14.99 a month and allow users to subscribe to "premium" services (baseball, football, and we're guessing Howard Stern).
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Despite my wife's contention that there's never anything on and that the the Oprah channel's Dr. Oz show is poorly scheduled, I generally enjoy my Sirius subscription, which now comes with extra XM. As I've noted before, Phoenix radio is about as bad as could be imagined and I'm generally too lazy to actually bring discs into the car to listen to, so the subscription seems like a decent deal. However, given the company's recent financial news, I may end up regretting paying for six months in advance.
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While the conglomerations behind terrestrial radio stations do their best to stop the proposed XM/Sirius merger, the still-separate satellite radio providers look they might be in a bit of financial trouble.
