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Will the deal be good for consumers? If you're already a satellite subscriber, it's hard to say: You might have more channels to choose from, but the people programming them will have one less reason to look over their shoulder. (As Thierer would point out, of course, you'll still be better...
Don't know how anyone can make that leap, not with an activist Democratic congress yet to be heard from on the issue. For now, just the still unknown nut-and-bolts of how the two services would merge and which shows would migrate -- does Stern go to Oprah, Oprah go to Stern? -- are quite enough...