From the Verde Independent comes the obituary, written by Dorothy Dobson-Stone, of our friend Hal.

From The New York Times: Sirius Radio Chief Urges Merger

Of course he does. He needs XM subscribers to bale him out of his one-half-BILLION-dollar payment to Howard Stern, along with his other mistakes.

Keep an eye on this subcommittee; if your representative serves on it, let them know you do not want this anticompetitive, monopolistic merger to go through. At the very least, this “combined” company should be forced to give up one if its frequency spectrum licenses…let the FCC bargan-basement whichever they give up to another company to allow competition. Otherwise, every satellite radio subscriber in the country is screwed, and at the mercy of whatever Mel Karmazin decides to do…which based on what he did to Sirius, ain’t gonna be good…