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But even the cartoon ch. has been struggling of late

That is total bull. Echo should have lost that spectrum altogether under the use it or lose it provisions of the auctions. To now say it can't pay creditors is just crookery.

They're never going to go for "free locals". Those locals cost THEM a ton from ever-more $$-demanding station ownership groups. If can get offair, that's the way to deal with the extortionists

Wasn't air tv that outfit that set up 1000s of miniature tv antennae at their HQ and sent offair signals to cx's?

You got a personal subscription deal directly from Charlie Ergen? I was at that Team Summit (dealer convention) as well and had some good discussion with him, even though our business models and ethics somewhat differed... I got a kick out of his spelling challenges in his posting to...

Probably not a bad motor if still running. The jack may need lubing and/or cleaning. One thing to try might be to pull the motor off the jack and see how it runs on its own, vs. when driving the jack.

Another in a long line of channels that blew up their nominal formatting. On The Learning Channel, you can now learn about getting hitched in 3 months

I was still able to get onto his board fairly recently but last I tried I couldn't. I first found out about Claude (& his board) when he called in to a Charlie Chat and gave a shoutout to his URL. I was also somewhat taken aback at his youth, but satellite was a youth industry. He quickly became...

So why isn't there like a cable for streaming? That aggregates content from various streamers the way cable (and then sat) aggregated from programmers? So then you'd sub to like various tiers of streamed content, like cable packages, all from 1 provider.

Oh, you betcha, and by even more given they can't get as good of a deal on programming anymore. Plus simply fewer subs to try to profit on

Yeah, that's it. Kinda forgot about the 942. Now somebody's going to want a 921

I was flipping through channels and noticed that CBS is running Hollywood Squares in PT. Fascinated, I watched for a few minutes. Wow. Even cheesier than the original. Don't know how people can watch that. This, from the "Tiffany Network".

I say it also had to do with poor customer service. They didn't support local service presence and threw a lot of their goodwill, some entirely unearned the way they treated dealers who were frontline to their cx's, out the window. Then tried to play catch-up, patch-up by building an in-house...

Why did they stall out at 14m? I have tried sling freeview and it's difficult

Doesn't look attractive to me, either....sometimes that's all it takes to bias against. Why have commonly used functions ch & vol been relegated to the top rather than placing at midpoint where thumb naturally falls in single-handed use? How do you switch modes or know what mode it is in? Why...