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I got slowness yesterday into today but wasn't sure whether on my end...good now

It's not "the owners of channel" that assign its packaging, but rather the provider, based on factors of the ch's asking rate and offered volume discounting. Clearly TNT went up enough for charlie to bump it from larger basics packs to an add-on pack. It really doesn't have to have even been by...

Keyword: Nascar.

A little after celebrating 50 years, MS announced July 2 laying off 4%. Reducing "organizational layers" by axing managers and "streamlining products, roles & procedures." Says changes are necessary to "compete in a dynamic marketplace."

Did you see where MS is eliminating the "blue screen of death"? Now it's going to be black.

The vhf/uhf spectrum is now much too valuable to be wasted on serving the puiblic

Cartoons should only be on sd in 4:3. By that I don't mean overcompressed, smeared digital sd.

good here

MI. Wasn't crazy about it, and it proved my instinct prescient. Was hoping to still catch The Phoenician Affair

not even leo?

ABC seems to have been schluffed off in a # of markets to become a subchannel of an NBC or other. Is it a dying net?

When they came out with that plastic 'Y' for the Dish 500 I was shocked, and sure it would disintegrate in the sun, as I had seen previous such (c-band) sat gear do. But they held up. And I guess the lnbf's were always plastic-cladded and they held up for the most part as well...Polymer science...

Why do you have 2 different offair devices?

Maybe there's a backchannel deal in the works for trump to use boost. Charlie schmoozes both sides of the spectrum. Is trump's desk phone really orange, or is this a website's little jab? https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/heres-latest-echostars-meeting-trump-and-carr

Right, when does the Jewish collaboration connection come in? What is "atmospheric turbulence"? I've never heard of "the atmosphere" affecting sat comms, other than rain and Ku. A t-storm won't affect laser?