i am joined by jim meyer, the chief executive officer of sirius xm holdings nice to have you. >> thankou. >> you guys have inked that deal to acquire pandora decent place to start as you await approvals. hope to close the deal fairly early next year? >> yes. >> but you have yet to give targets out in terms of what your financial projections will be and what's going to result from the combination, which investors of course care about why haven't you as yet and when will you >> we'll obviously give guidance here as part of our 2019 guidance when we give it -- normally we give it in late january. we're doing a lot of work on the integration of the companies i will tell you i'm more excited about the opportunity of pandora today, even as i dig deeper into it. >> why >> because i see the opportunity. i see it intwo big areas number one, i see how it can benefit sirius by that i mean our subscribers in terms of improving our value proposition. and the ability to take the $5 and $10 music plans, which in themselves are not very profitable, but bundle them in a way to our existing 33.7 million

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