With the merger of Sirius and XM, is this the beginning of the end for terrestrial radio?

I hope so. I wish this would happen with cable tv. If we are paying for the service then why are commercials needed?

No. Now that there is no competition, I think the price will be jacked up making it less attractive to buyers.

I doubt it will be a new media shift. In fact there has been a recent backlash against online and satellite radio. Normal radio is still going very, very strong. Happily so. I can’t see myself trading my FM/AM radio in for anything really.

Granted, I do run an internet radio station on the side.

sattelite radio has always been a stupid idea. The beginning of it was the beginning if the end of it. I’ve always said, and still believe, that there will only be one radio in the not-too-distant future, and that is Internet radio. Even that is kind if a misnomer in that it is actually just streaming audio over the Internet.