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 <description>&lt;p&gt;There&#039;s only one Howard Stern, but music formats offered by satellite radio broadcasters Sirius and XM frequently overlap. So a long-gestating merger of the two companies -- expected to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission in the next few weeks -- would initially mean duplication of content. But radio industry insiders anticipate that much of that redundancy will be eliminated once the deal is finalized.&lt;/p&gt;
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