Recent content by telstar_1

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How can it be conscionable to pass that kind of cost to people with no interest in sports

Where's satellite?

ESPN is to the point where it's making providers look bad in what they have to charge for basic packages. Last I knew it was like $4/month/sub just for that channel (+ maybe ESPN2, ESPNews, etc.) and then only if distributed to the bulk of subs. So you have the non-sports-consuming public (a...

So like I don't think DiSH should be seeing any problem with CNN demanding more $. The kind of channel that really give them fits is ESPN, which has always demanded more & more.

Hm, TCL- I just thought it was a cheapo brand like visio

I don't think you can call a package basic w/o CNN...

Well that itself is bull- at least substantially. Yeah, it costs chucky quite a bit to space-segment his big locals roundup, but the lion's share of his expenses going into his locals fees comes from extortion by the nets & their affils.

Well, do you apply same logic to sending missions to Mars? Must be 50% public approval?

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Maybe they're working on eliminating flex pack. At least "as of old," programmers (ch's) usually insisted on distribution to a majority of a provider's subs, particularly with the more "basic" ch's, either as a mandatory condition of carriage or as preferred alternative to a high ala-carte ask...

Just no benefit in it. The hole size would need to be quite small not to leak at DBS frequencies and there would be very little wind-force reduction. The whole point of DBS was to be able to use a dish so small that wind wouldn't grab it in any kind of manner as with C-band size dishes. And also...

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk... I wouldn't capitalize "college football" or "collegiate sports" (or federal prosecutors), but do always ask how and why the term "student athlete" has come to such universal usage. If one is on a college debate team, he isn't often referred to as a "student debater," or a...

Great video, but could have used it a couple years ago... CT- innovative technically, awful realistically.

DTV & DiSH collectively hold a pure duopoly over DBS. It wasn't quite so at the outset of DBS, as there was requirement for more separate entities in the category. Along with DTV there was also USSB, and along with DiSH there was Sky Angel. OK, so really effectively still a duopoly, you just had...