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  1. ddlsmith

    How To Run Off a Customer

    1. Mail your existing TWC cable customer an offer to give a $20 per month discount on his cable bill for one full year if he switches his phone service to your digital phone service. (With a $240 savings over a year, of course he jumps on the deal and switches not only his phone from AT&T but...
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    Starz HD and Cinemax HD on TWC

    ...official announcement of the new additions as far as I have seen and it isn't yet reflected on their website but they're there. Also do not know if there will be a rate increase for the expanded HD lineup. And, yes, the HD quality is equal to or better than D* or E* because I've had them all.
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    VOOM Schedule????

    I am trying to find an online schedule with the daily program guide for the VOOM channels including the new ones available only to those with a 622. I want to know what I will be able to watch if I am going to spend the money and upgrade to get the other 5 new channels. I went to the VOOM...
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    Dish Deceives and Misleads

    I bought a 942 and subscribed to Dish for one reason only....the VOOM channels. When I called to subscribe, I was told by the CSR that I would have to have the HD package ($9.95) in order to get the VOOM channels ($5.00), even though I already get all of their HD offerings (plus more) on TWC...
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    921 vs. 942

    After Voom ended, I switched to TWC and am very happy with their HD lineup, HD-DVR, and PQ. But now that Dish has some of the Voom channels available, I want to subscribe just for the Voom package, I really miss Monster, Rave, and Equator. I understand I will also have to get their HD package...
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    I Shot My Box

    I shot my goddamn V-star box; I blew it all to hell. I'm tired of all the drama, Flushed the pieces down the well This sad and long soap opera Has kept me on the edge Now I myself am perched On my building near the ledge I might jump, I might not Who the hell would even...
  7. ddlsmith

    Selling Me Out

    So much for my privacy information with VOOM. Today I got a personal letter from a local E* company telling me they know I am a soon to be former V* customer and are offering me a fantastic deal with them so I won't lose any precious moments of wonderful HD satellite programming...
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    VOOM Ad

    There is a 30-minute VOOM ad running as I type on my local Fox channel. I know, I know...it was purchased long ago but it is ironic...urging people to go to Voom.com or call the 800 number to get all that wonderful HD programming. Kind of like watching a home video of someone who just died.
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    Dolan Responds

    New York...11:49 pm EDT...April 9, 2005 Charles "Chuck" Dolan in an impromptu response to intrusive reporters inquiries while dining at the posh 55th Street Brasserie LCB restaurant, dining on his favorite Grand Marnier soufflé as dessert, following a scrumptious helping of sausage-dense...
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    Thoughts on Cable

    ...already has HDNET and INHD channels. Counting locals, they have 17 HD so Voom would make it 38. I must say that the PQ on HDNET and INHD rivals V* and the SD's look much better in my opinion. That said, I too am sad for the demise of VOOM, I will miss it as a satellite provider but hope...
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    Dolan's Motive?

    ...of recent WB theatricals. But hovering over the movie deal are two contentious issues over which the two sides are locked in conflict: * TW Cable and AMC are battling in the courts over TW's contention that AMC has breached its contract by changing its programming from an emphasis on...
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    Cablevision Seeks Adelphia

    April 6, 2005 Cablevision Seeks Adelphia for $16 Billion By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and GERALDINE FABRIKANT Cablevision Systems turned the bidding for Adelphia Communications into a heated battle yesterday by offering $16.5 billion in cash for the company, executives involved in the process...
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    April fools: Dolan Shot

    On Tuesday, Katie Dolan’s jumper just inside the foul line with 1.4 seconds left lifted the Hampton Attack to a 36-34 victory over York in the seventh- and eighth-grade girls basketball division. Hampton outscored York 10-0 in the game’s last 1:20 to pull out the improbable win. Lara...
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    VOOM Commercial

    Last night we were watching Discover HD and saw 3 or 4 one-minute VOOM commercials. They were not in HD. Isn't it a little strange for them to run a commercial advertising the great HD content we get on VOOM and they didn't even bother to make the commercial in HD? :confused:
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    Daily News: "Diamond Jim Dolan"

    Reality shows Cablevision more entertaining off court The Knicks defeated the shorthanded Washington Wizards last night at the Garden, 93-83, winning their seventh straight home game, a sports event that carried all the weight and permanence of a 20-second timeout. The Knicks are playing...
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    Encore HD to Fold

    Already posted, sorry.
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    "Chuck Dolans Last Stand" (New York Post) 03.06.05

    ...Moffett and Amelia Wong of Bernstein Research Call say the fate of the company all comes down to what kind of dynamic the Dolans are following: * Henry IV and Prince Hal, who battled, but in the end Hal saved his father's life. If the Dolans are Shakespeare, the analysts claim, the company...
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    Dr. Joyce Analyzes Dolans

    PSYCHODOLAN SOAP OPERA INTENSIFIES By HOLLY M. SANDERS From Oedipus to Hamlet, the father-son dynamic has fascinated playwrights and psychoanalysts. Now, New York has its own paterfamilias drama — the Dolans. Cablevision Chairman Chuck Dolan and his son, CEO Jim Dolan, are dealing with...
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    Brad Pitt Strips for VOOM

    BRAD PITT fans are delighted to learn the Hollywood hunk will be shedding his clothes for the sake of art. The TROY star, recently separated from wife JENNIFER ANISTON, is one of several celebrities, including WINONA RYDER, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI and MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV, who recently posed for...
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    Reality Show for VOOM?

    Reality TV hitches its star to the art world By Randy Kennedy, The New York Times March 4, 2005 NEW YORK - It came long ago to the worlds of music (American Idol), moviemaking (Project Greenlight) and fashion design (Project Runway). Now reality television is tackling the art world...
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    USA Today: Dolan told to Back Off

    Cablevision directors order chairman to back off By David Lieberman, USA TODAY NEW YORK — The father-son clash at Cablevision Systems (CVC) intensified Thursday as a committee of independent directors charged that company founder Charles Dolan is engaging in marketing practices "likely to...
  22. ddlsmith

    It's WORLDwide!!

    I Googled "VOOM" under Google news, sort by date, (as I am sure many of you do) and there is even a posting from a website in India about the current goings on.
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    Scenario

    "Take that G*D* "Voom will shut down in 30 days"message off my website or I will sell Cablevision before the sun sets today!!" "Sorry, Daddy..."
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    Just Got Off the Phone

    I just called the VOOM customer service number and got some guy who said VOOM was history but since he was in a call center tried to sell me on some kind of erectile disfunction pill prescription, I think it was like Viagra but it was something called Levitra or something like that. I asked...
  25. ddlsmith

    10 New HD Channels!!

    VOOM Sadalight Cervice announced today that it is launching its new programming package effective immediately for all current VOOM subscribers which will add to the existing lineup of channels. It includes the following exclusive high definition (sometimes referred to as "HD") channels: 1...