“There is a reason to root for a merger, and it involves the group most actively opposing it: the broadcast lobby.”
Lee Gomes writes in the Wall Street Journal about “How Radio Listeners Will Fare in a Merger of Sirius and XM.”
“Think for a second about commercial radio in the U.S.,” he writes. “Its ownership is highly concentrated, its programming is most commonly described as ‘soulless’ and it is missing most of the public-interest programming we used to take for granted. A radio station, after all, is but a state-approved monopoly on the public’s airwaves.”
