satellite radio merger

Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin said Friday that he did not expect the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger vote to come at the FCC's Aug.

FCC chairman Kevin Martin doesn’t expect XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger vote to come at Aug. 1 meeting.

Could the FCC finally be ready to sign off on the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger? The Justice Department already gave it a green light.

Equipment manufacturers are asking the FCC to get a move on and decide whether or not to approve the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger.

Sen. and former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-Mass.) wrote FCC chairman Kevin Martin asking him not to "rubber-stamp" the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger after the Department of Justice gave it a clean bill of antitrust health.

House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said the Department of Justice's approval of the XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger without conditions was par for the course, but he told the FCC it should aim for more.

The American Antitrust Institute, a nonprofit that advocates an aggressive stance toward antitrust enforcement, recommended that the Department of Justice file suit against the proposed XM Satellite Radio-Sirius Satellite Radio merger.