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Or at least stop the trend of every team having its own channel. That is not a sustainable model for MVPD's nor consumers: the costs are enormous,and those channels are filled with JUNK when it is not airing a live game. Even the FCC called it a "poor model." Let's get back to at least the...

AND that was the reason. The first of many acts to come that are designed to warm the FCC (and the Justice Department) to the idea of the merger. "My, what good citizens Charter/TWC are!" Also LA Mayor successfully pressed them and others to do so. All other MSO's in the LA market will also...

I hate to say it, but this is actually a good merger, but ONLY because we had allowed that horrible Comcast/NBCUniversal merge. Charter is just too small to make the investments to be a strong competitor and offer consumers a true, high quality alternative to satellite and Telcos, IF someone...

I am also at a promotional rate ($29.99) that at the end of 3 years will be at the standard $49.99, but I'm OK with that because Earthlink is $39.99 for 3.0 MB and similar rate from other providers for even worse 1.5MB, so with my more demanding needs, it isn't bad to pay $10 per month for a...

There have been a fair amount of launch failures over the yeares because as the old saying ("it aint rocket science, ya know") infers that launching large rockets is an extremely difficult thing to do WITHOUT a failure, even here in the 21st Century. It is so difficult, there really should be...

I recently received a solicitation in the mail for a special offer for Dish Network customers to sign up for Charter's Internet Express. On paper it looks a good deal with free install and Dish customers getting charged $19.99 for the first 3 months and then the regular $34 after that with a 2...

Verizon is an huge company with deep pockets; they can keep going like this for quite a while, but the returns will increase as time passes making the initial huge investment worth it in the long run.

Charlie always hires the best, and often most expensive, lawyers, so it is not true that AT&T or Verizon, simply because of their size will have better lawyers. In such lawsuits, even the biggest companies never handle this in-house; they always hire a law firm with expertise in such suits...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (I probably didn't spell it correctly) has said publicly that it is a "rouge court."

The push for single dish for LIL was going nowhere (Ergan had successfully blunted it) until Murdoch/Direct TV lobbied for such language to be included in the bill. Sorry, but Murdoch back then was KING of all supreme in Congress, even more powerful than NAB, and he got his way.

The whole one dish for LIL was rammed in at the last moment by Rupert Murdoch, when he owned Direct TV, to hamper Dish during the race to provide additional LIL's beyond the big networks. It was a pain to Dish and did cost Dish some $$$ as they had to accelerate the planned single dish LIL they...

A legal defeat to anything the content holders do to stifle innovation is always a good thing. As for Charlie, he is trying to get out of the box business, as well. It costs tons of $$ to provide multiple boxes, then RMA the boxes--plus the shipping costs--and the entire support system for...

The advantage of having your DVR timers free to record LIL's prime-time programming.

As someone who enjoys Dish out on the west coast--Los Angeles--I prefer getting the east coast feeds because I can DVR the History Channel, NatGeo, etc., prime-time, first-run shows from 5-8PM PDT. It does make it a bit of a challenge sometimes to watch the local news, as LA local news is often...

TV5 France has a daily newscast with English subtitles that is just what you are looking for. They have great coverage of Europe and international, even the U.S., as well as a fair amount of French domestic news. Also, almost all the movies they air also have English subtitles. There are...

I believe Charter is the poorest performing (financially speaking--in terms of a really sound, well-run company) cable company out there. The last few quarters have been better than the last few years when they were biggest losers with a shaky financial future. Things were so bad, they had to...