The knuckleheads at the National Association of Broadcasters put together a website, XMSiriusMonopoly.org, with their own twisted slant on why the merger is a bad thing. Of course, they have their own reasons, reasons which if directly stated would actually play towards the merger…so they have a bunch of reasons they don’t really believe in posted to oppose the merger.

Problem is, they’re right, even if for the wrong reason. I’ve made no secret to anyone my strong opposition to this merger (and sent my public comments to the FCC back in July as well), so for the first and probably the last time, the NAB and I are on the same page.

If you agree with me that the merger of Sirius and XM would be the end of satellite radio, or at least the end of any satellite radio worth listening to, I reluctantly urge you to visit the NAB’s website and follow the links to send your own comments to the FCC, letting them know what a bone-headed move this is. I have no idea whether it will help (with the pro-merger climate in Washington these days), but if nothing else it will make you feel better.

Recently on the Internet OTR Digest there was a discussion about the show Can You Top This?, an audience-participation program where the listeners could send in jokes to tell; the panelists would then try to top the laughter level as measured on the meter, which would determine how much money the joke-sender would receive.

Our friend Jim Widner, he of the Radio Days website, provided a collection of episodes he’s acquired from the Net for running on this podcast. This episode is labeled from December 5, 1947 and has as its first topic “Indignation.”

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