{"id":87333,"date":"2010-03-11T21:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sspi-timeline-2008-xm-sirius\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:12:01","slug":"sspi-timeline-2008-xm-sirius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sspi-timeline-2008-xm-sirius\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPI Timeline: 2008 \u2013 XM Sirius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 2008 \u2013 The longest-running merger proposal in history came to a close when XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio became one company named Sirius XM Satellite Radio. The merger, announced February 2007, sought to combine the two US satellite radio companies in order to compete more effectively with terrestrial and Internet alternatives<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view this event in the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline<\/p>\n<p>Visit the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline to tour the decades of the Satellite Era<\/p>\n<p>The SSPI Satellite Timeline is the first interactive site on the Web to chronicle the rich and diverse history of the commercial satellite industry. Launched in October 2007 \u2013 the 50th anniversary of Sputnik \u2013 the Timeline is a learning tool for satellite professionals, students, the news media and the innovative companies that make up the industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 2008 \u2013 The longest-running merger proposal in history came to a close when XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio became one company named Sirius XM Satellite Radio. The merger, announced February 2007, sought to combine the two US satellite radio companies in order to compete more effectively with terrestrial and Internet alternatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}