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Sirius (SIRI) hits a new 52-week low today, shares are now trading under $3. Haven’t we heard enough about this stock already?

Haven’t we heard enough about this stock already? Howard Stern, merging with XM, Satellite Radio is the future, Mel & HowardTom Lykis – blah, blah, blah. CEO Mel Karmazin has been on a wild ride with Sirius and despite the company’s faults, Mel is on a mission to get the U.S. Senate to approve the Sirius-XM Merger. Today on capital hill Mel was driving home his selling points, which include:

– The combined company will offer consumers more choice at lower prices

– The key to getting more subscribers will not be to widen the price gap between free and what satellite radio charges. Instead, it will be to offer consumers a better value.

– The merger will allow them to lower prices. Consumers who want fewer channels than currently offered will be able to select one or more packages of channels for less than $12.95 per month

Can Mel make the merger happen, will Sirius finally become profitable and when will SIRI shares finally show some value? These are all questions investors are eager to know and with a new 52-week low today, the future is looking very uncertain. Will Sirius Hold $3.00?
Jon Ogg at 247WallSt. says "right now it is all about the merger as that is becoming a do or die scenario.  Both companies need the merger to succeed"…read his take. Just imagine what the share price could do if the merger goes through? Big bucks people, no whammies.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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