Karmazin: Time Is 'Ripe' for Merger

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NEW YORK Mel Karmazin told analysts Tuesday that the merger of satellite radio services Sirius and XM “is ripe to be granted.”

Karmazin, CEO of Sirius, also reiterated his desire to cut prices for satellite radio subscriptions, something he could accomplish far more easily if XM and Sirius were allowed to merge, he said.

Such a merger would save “hundreds of millions of dollars in efficiencies,” he said, citing a third-party source he declined to name.

But





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