Audio Entertainment

Senate Antitrust Committee Chairman Mistaken on XM-Sirius

Authored by Scott Goldberg on May 25, 2007 - 9:52am.

Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), chairman of the Senate’s antitrust committee, said yesterday that an XM-Sirius merger “would cause substantial harm to competition and consumers.” He is urging the FCC and Justice Department to block the proposed $4 billion merger. “Elimination of the head-to-head competition currently offered by XM and Sirius leaving only a monopoly satellite radio service will likely result in higher prices and poorer service being offered to consumers,” said Kohl.

Musicovery & Pandora: Two More Music Sources Worth Knowing

Authored by Scott Goldberg on April 24, 2007 - 8:38am.

In February I wrote about 6 Audio Entertainment Sources Better Than XM-Sirius and took a lot flack for omitting dozens of others. It turns out people are passionate about their music sites (who would've guessed?). I decided this topic was worth keeping track of in light of our current environment in which Xirius looks like a no-go, Steve Jobs is half-heartedly trying to kill DRM, everyone in the digital music business is trying to kill Steve Jobs, and the Copyright Royalty Board is trying to kill internet radio. At The Millennials Conference last week, a couple kids-in-the-know switched me on to 2 more sources of free music, Musicovery and Pandora. If you’ve never used them, here’s the rub: