Sorry, but Sears does own K-Mart. Here is a weblink of their latest earnings -- Sears sales declined 9.8% and K-Mart sales declined 7.1%. I believe they merged because misery loves company.
http://www.searsholdings.com/pubrel/...-29-0004822404
BTW, you will notice a little cross-selling -- I was in K-Mart last weekend and they are selling Craftsman tools there.
To the topic on hand, I believe you are correct -- it will be a year or so before receivers are built to handle both brands. I also believe they will be separate services, with a few common channels that you can pick from. Until then, I would advise people to look at the lineups to see which one better meets their needs. After listening to Sirius for six months, I swapped the Sirius receiver out for an XM receiver. XM seems to have better audio quality.
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Originally Posted by projectSHO89
....except Kmart does not own SEARS (or vice versa). You need to do your homework. Obviously you haven't looked in either a Sears or Kmart recently.
It will take up a year or so (assuming the FCC doesn't screw up the deal) for inter-operable receivers to get to the market in significant numbers that are capable of receiving both data streams simultaneously. Until those receivers are available, customers will be limited to receiving programming that is available only on the original signal platform.
Steve
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