Yeah, I heard it's taken longer for this merger to get approved than any other... It might not ever happen...
I've had Sirius for a while, just the online version and listen all day at work... Hella worth it just for the two Stern channels, but there's a lot of other shit.
I never hear any Bay shit on Shade 45, but the station's still good... So is Hip Hop Nation... Even though they have those horrible East Coast DJ's that have to put air raid sirens over all their exclusives and doing stupid shit like playing the first 4 bars, stopping it, talking, playing the same 4 bars again, playing a sound effect, talking, repeating it, etc. and then finally playing the verse after 20 minutes of gay bullshit.
Sirius has hella other stations that are good too... Like Hair Nation! \m/