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    Work Continues On Voom Satellites

    I believe the Ka band licenses for these five satellites were at 62, 71, 77, 119 and 129 W. Currently Dish is doing a great deal of Ka band testing with AMC-15 and 16 and maybe interested in these satellites and associated slots based on this testing so Cablevision/Rainbow maybe waiting for an...
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    Rainbow DBS and Echostar File against Voom HD LLC Petition to Deny

    I believe the deadline for submitting replies to the initial set of comments was April 12, 2005. That is why Rainbow DBS and Echostar filed their reply now. Any responses/comments to this recent filing needs to be filed by April 18, 2005. It will be interesting if Voom HD LLC/Charles Dolan...
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    Charlie Chat and Voom 21

    Regarding the question of bandwidth, Dish should have plenty of bandwidth at 105 W once AMC-15 is moved there which should occur by early June 2005. Ka band testing at 113 W has to finish by May 21, 2005 and then AMC-15 must be moved to 105 W. Even with the current SD locals at 105 W on AMC-2...
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    Anything is possible but in all fairness...

    I think you are greatly confused about geostationary satellites and the ISS (International Space Station). The ISS orbits the earth at an altitude of about 200 miles. All the satellites that provide satellite television are geostationary which orbit the earth at an altitude of about 22,000...
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    Cablevision agrees to end Voom

    Horowitz is going to SES Americom, the owner of AMC-6 (aka Rainbow-2). They also own AMC-15 and AMC-16, two satellites on orbit that Echostar is leasing.
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    AMC-6 (AKA Rainbow-2) Stats

    AMC-6 has both Ku band and C band and I think you are looking at the C band transponders on LyngSat. Voom has a lease with the Ku band. In addition, one needs to look at the date over in the far right column of the table on the LyngSat site. Many of these have not been updated in over a year...
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    AMC-6 (AKA Rainbow-2) Stats

    Here's some links to the SES Americom website, the owner of AMC-6 (Rainbow-2). The second one has a ERIP map. The second configuration for transponders (TPs) provides for some interesting possibilities especially if the satellite is used for both SD and HD channels. It should be noted that...
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    We got some interesting information today.

    I believe the 117 W location is a Ka band slot for E*. E* has licenses for a bunch of Ka band slots including 113 W which they are testing currently using AMC-15. What is of more immediate interest besides the Rainbow-1 acquisition for E*, is their FCC application to move one of their unused...
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    FaxUpdate April 1, 2005: VOOM Shutdown Could Be Announced As Early As Today

    I think Charles Dolan would love for Voom to be able to offer HD locals via satellite and that was a long range plan for Voom based on the spotbeam capability of the Rainbow-1 satellite. There is no other logical explanation for why Voom would at least double the cost of the Rainbow-1 satellite...
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    FaxUpdate April 1, 2005: VOOM Shutdown Could Be Announced As Early As Today

    Has anyone found the Cablevision/Rainbow DBS letter to the FCC distancing them from the Dolan/Voom LLC comments? Perhaps it hasn't been made public or maybe won't be made public but it certainly would lend credence to the SatBizNews FaxUpdate. I feel sorry for the gal(s)/guy(s) at...
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    FaxUpdate April 1, 2005: VOOM Shutdown Could Be Announced As Early As Today

    The transmission power is less on AMC-6 but using a bigger customer dish would solve most of those problems. The advantage that AMC-6 has over Rainbow-1 is the frequency width of each TP is wider, therefore more channels per TP is possible. There have been discussions over in the Dish forum...
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    New effort to save Voom - Board did not meet on 3/31

    You obviously do not understand what punitive damages are. Punitive damages are where the defendant’s conduct is found to be intentional or willful or wanton or malicious, the courts may permit an award of punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Punitive damages are intended to...
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    New effort to save Voom - Board did not meet on 3/31

    A deliberate breach of the contract (that Charles Dolan may have already done) may be grounds for punitive damages as well that could result in very large damage awards in excess of the amount of the contract.
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    New effort to save Voom - Board did not meet on 3/31

    Can you explain how the Cablevision Board can legally rescind the sale of Rainbow DBS assets to Echostar? Is this just wishful thinking or do you have some legal rationale? If rescinding the sale is possible, why would Charles Dolan waste his time with the comments to the FCC?
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    FCC: Joint Petition Filed to Deny Assignment of Licenses (Charles F Dolan)

    Based on some of the stories posted in this forum, Charles Dolan has been running Voom the entire time because it was his "baby". Most of the rest of Cablevision was run by his son James Dolan who had more of an interest in Madison Square Garden, the Knicks and the Rangers. When the losses...
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    FCC Docket 05-72: Public Comments against sale/transfer of VOOM Licenses

    I submitted comments in support of Echostar and did not use this rationale that a bigger company should be allowed to take away from a little company as a reason to approve the transfer/assignment of frequencies. Please don't post these inaccurate generalizations. Of course Echostar didn't...
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    FCC: Joint Petition Filed to Deny Assignment of Licenses (Charles F Dolan)

    The option to kill the deal if the license transfer is denied is really held by Echostar. If Echostar really wanted the Rainbow-1 satellite, they could still agree to the deal. As I have posted elsewhere, Echostar could request a transponder (TP) swap with the FCC. Echostar would get the 11...
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    FCC: Joint Petition Filed to Deny Assignment of Licenses (Charles F Dolan)

    I see a big lawsuit coming towards Charles Dolan. He may be sued by both Echostar and Cablevision.
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    FCC Docket 05-72: Public Comments against sale/transfer of VOOM Licenses

    Since Voom is still part of Cablevision, it would be a breach of their contract with Echostar to ask for customers to post.
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    FCC Docket 05-72: Public Comments against sale/transfer of VOOM Licenses

    Unfortunately over 90% of the comments do not provide any relevant rationale related to the issues associated with the application. As was noted in a previous post in this thread, this is not a popularity contest. If it was, don't you think Echostar would have a large number of their employees...
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    Details of the Rainbow-1 sale agreement

    For clarification, the FCC's real power related to this is the approval of the assignment/transfer of the DBS frequencies, not the actual sale of the satellite or uplink facility. If the FCC were to disapprove the assignment/ transfer, it wouldn't surprise me if Echostar took some sort of legal...
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    Echostar holding on to Voom satellite (NewsDay) 03.18.05

    First, it can be argued that Voom could survive without the Rainbow-1 satellite. Second, Charles Dolan is still an officer of Cablevision and if he presents anything that would harm the approval by the FCC of the transfer of the licenses at 61.5, he would cause Cablevision to be in breech of...
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    Malone Voices Skepticism About Voom's Chances

    Charlie Ergen has stated on past Charlie Chats that he may be interested in some of the Voom HD programming. Now he could have been lying but I am positive he made the statement several months back and I believe he made it on more than one Charlie Chat. I have to believe until recently that...
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    Cablevision Enters into Interim Agreement Regarding VOOM

    I would think that the satellite deal would be off if E* doesn't get the licenses that can be used by the R-1 satellite. E* may still make the deal anyway even if they had to swap TPs considering that the E-3 satellite probably only has a few more years of life.
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    Cablevision Enters into Interim Agreement Regarding VOOM

    When I have talked swap, I wasn't thinking about swapping the TPs with Voom. I was thinking that Dish would give the TPs back to the FCC to auction off in the future.
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