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U.S. approves United, Continental merger WASHINGTON, -- The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it has approved the proposed merger of United Airlines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. In a statement posted on its Web site, the department said approval of the $3 billion merger came after...

Litigation Questions FCC's Moves on Sirius XM Merger -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Litigation pending at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., is taking aim at the Sirius XM merger, specifically the regulatory approval the deal...

DBS Merger Talk Heats Up Talk about a possible DBS merger heated up Tuesday, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that DISH Network CEO Charlie Ergen is contemplating another attempt to join forces with small dish rival DIRECTV. DISH's recent struggles prompted some of the DBS merger...

Reaction Mixed on Sirius/XM Merger OK There was some weekend reaction to news that XM and Sirius won Federal Communications Commission approval for their pending merger, a decision that was handed down by the communications regulator late Friday night. As expected, the National Association of...

A DBS Merger? Don't Count on It Now that XM and Sirius have what they need from regulators to merge operations, speculation surfaced about the next potential big deal in satellite circles: A combination of DBS giants. While the talk was irresistible for some, folks on Wall Street said don't...

Sat Radio Merger.. Are the votes beginning to line up on the XM/Sirius merger at the Federal Communications Commission? The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Copps, one of two Democratic commissioners at the FCC, has formally voted against the deal. He could be the first dissenting vote...

XM Launches Notes Offering XM Satellite Radio on Monday launched an offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of new senior notes. The company said the offering is part of a series of transactions to refinance certain debt in connection with its pending merger with Sirius. XM said...

SkyBOX: Gunning for Godot by Evie Haskell The Sirius/XM saga continues ... and Samuel Beckett would have been proud. How else could one possibly explain the multilayered, seemingly endless, government-by-the-absurd tragicomedy that is the attempted satellite radio merger? In the latest act...