I'm not all that disappointed since after the earnings call with Charlie, he let the cat out of the bag when he said HD wasn't driving the business. I voted last week that we wouldn't see any more national HD added this year and I still think that will be the case. I would love to be proven wrong with the addition of the Fox and Viacom suites, but I wouldn't even bet a nickel on it. We're already into the Christmas marketing season and it seems they are content to continue to misdirect with the up to 150 HD channel claims. To add HD in December when people aren't watching because of things going on during the holiday season, wouldn't make much sense. If they want to counter advertise against the competition they need to get some numbers on their side or make up some better ones.
The emphasis seems to be on getting those new subs and they seem to want to do that at the expense of angering the existing ones. I'm sorry KC, but giving KC HD LIL on two different satellites while ignoring DMAs further east with no HD LIL is irritating. I guess all the spotbeam space is used up for the spots in those markets farther east. I'm headed to a tropical paradise for a few weeks so I won't have access to satellite anyway which is probably a good thing.
