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Tonight I saw a Cubs game on in a bar, evidently on the Marquee channel, the Cubs' own answer to YES, and there's of course a crawl going full time at the bottom, frequently reminding to "get the app or go to marquee.com, and call your provider to watch." :confused: It's "either, or", right...

But that's actually backward- they've only been hanging onto so many TV subs because they have them for broadband. So if they're losing more from broadband now than from TV, they're cratering. Competition like fiber is coming online in more of their areas.

As an originating DiSH dealer, I of course recall the rollout of DiSH 500. I digress, but you may have noticed that I type DiSH with a small "i"- as DiSH originally did. It stands for Digital Sky Highway, a takeoff on the Internet having been referred to as the "information superhighway"...

Well the gov't in its wisdom decided that the "airwaves" which, per the 1934 Communications Act, "belong to the people," are better sold off to the highest industrial bidder as long as he uses them to commercial gain. I don't remember if or what "collatoral" gov't may have req'd of bidders in...

Unless I completely misunderstood things, C had to put the spectrum to gainful work by a deadline or lose it altogether- not be paid back for having it taken back. What would be the risk in that? He could then drag out using it without real penalty. Gov't wants both its $ as well as the spectrum...

Not a law, but effectively so. A contractual obligation. Absolutely he cannot simply sell any of the spectrum, that was rule 1 of the auctions, no reselling. Also he has to make commercially effective use of the spectrum by certain deadlines (which are now passing) or surrender it without...

Also this is what makes him worse than DTV ever was, as DTV never did promise to service well or at all. Their thing was, look, we're DTV, you know you want it, it's in all the stores...C's simply a deceiver. He made promises to us and to the public, saying he would keep the promises cable...

With the dealers it was (and for what's left is) independent contractor status, 1099'd for commissioning/comping. Charlie's greed was in not wanting to comp dealers for taking care of customers as much as in wanting to minimize comping dealers by getting subs to fight through self-installing...

He did that to the dealers 20 years ago- told us that our dealings in DiSH should only be considered a door-opener to really making our living from "upselling" customers on ancillary and separate services, TV & sound systems, home automation, etc. So we should just be grateful for DiSH in...

So then they're gonna have 100s of these sats up there along with starlink? What happens when they start running into each other

Still haven't really gotten it that they no longer own the town through broadband. Probably by time they do, they'll be in a kind of shape like DiSH

I have to think it's like a total revolving door as far as the techs. They hire on and see how long they can either take it or until canned

so try doing either one and don't give ss. Why does dish network need that? I know i know. So they can tell you haven't already had them and stiffed them

I'd bet there were a lot of installations during CoViD

So then the idee-r is make people sub to both hbo-max and disc?