The whole reason the FCC is even involved is because there's public bandwidth involved here. I assume Satalight radio has only so much bandwidth and so many frequencies assigned to it. We're going from an era where at you at least had competition from two companies, to a single who will essentially own that bandwidth and no other company, no matter what will be able to enter the satalight radio business, because no other bandwidth is available for it.

There's monopoly because you're so big and powerful that you have all the markeshare, and then there's monopoly because you own something that nobody else can reproduce or break into no matter what.

I think the requirements they asking for are stupid and silly but i also don't like the idea that one company will essentially control and an entire medium forever, unless the FCC opens up more bandwidth, which is very unlikely. It's sort of like the internet or all of public radio being controlled by a single company and no other company can start up and enter the market, because the government has issued only one license to one company and won't issue anymore.

I understand the personal motivations for wanting just one company so you can get more channels and only have to buy one service, but there's more at stake here than one's personal pocket book. If we keep looking at these issues from a selfish short term finicial gain, like we do on just about everything else...i.e. shopping at walmart...we'll end up losing in the end.