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As you might know SatelliteGuys is supported by both the generosity of our Supporting Pub Members and via advertisements.
The advertisements shown here at SatelliteGuys are in two separate realms, we have our PROUD Gold Sponsors, which are advertisers that directly advertise here on SatelliteGuys. The Gold Sponsors are some of the best at what they do. Every day I get inquiries from companies looking to become Gold Sponsors. 99.7% of them are turned away as they don't meet our standards, some have customer service issues, other have a bad website, others were just setup and appear to be fly by night.
We want good honest companies that offer good products with great customer support for our members. Sure we could make a mint if we accepted everyone who wanted to give us money to advertise here. But in turn we feel this would not be good for you our members. We truly want the best for you and thus select Gold Sponsors carefully. All users of SatelliteGuys see the ads from our Gold Sponsors as our thanks for supporting us.
The other type of advertiser we have here are what are called "Syndicated Ads" these ads are provided to us by a number of ad networks including Google Adsense, Burst Media, ADSDAQ and ADIFY Media.
While I would rather not want to run these ads, they are needed to help cover the expenses. These Syndicated Ads are pushed to us and are a lot of work. Daily I go through the ads being fed to us and block ads that I feel are not appropriate for SatelliteGuys and our members. On some days this filtering of ads can take 1 to 2 hours. (If you see an ad that is objectionable please take a screenshot of it for me and I will do my best to review it and remove it.)
Where we use to make $1 in syndicated advertising we now make 40 cents. And one of the issues is we keep growing. Growth is not a bad thing and its something I am very proud of but we need to pay for this growth and the downturn in the ad dollar has us making these changes.
I would rather not run these ads here but we need to in order to pay our bills and keep the site free for everyone.
As you might know the economy is having issues and this is affecting the amount of money paid by these syndicated ads. Because of this I have had to make some changes to our ads layout. This was something I did not want to do but had to in order to pay the bills here at the site. Normally for event weeks such as Team Summit we can get anywhere from 30 – 50 new supporting pub members. This year for Team Summit week only 12 people signed up or renewed their Pub Memberships. (Note we did receive one Generous donation from one kind member last week, thank you!)
I really don't want to beg for people to become Pub Members, but do hope that if they have found a value to this site and the help and information we provide that they would consider becoming a supporting Pub Member. Pub Membership is only $20 a year and as part of your Pub Membership all the syndicated ads are removed. One benefit is not only do you not see the syndicated ads, but the pages here on Satellite load almost instantly since everything is coming off our own servers! The time saved in ad loading time itself is enough to pay for the benefit. But being a Pub Member means oh so much more.
For more details on becoming a Supporting Pub Member please visit http://www.satelliteguys.us/payments.php
SatelliteGuys is different then other Satellite sites, look at last week for example where we put 15 lucky SatelliteGuys members face to face with many Dish Network executives including an hour and a half meeting with Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen. Plus in the past we have done other big events such as CES, CEDIA, The Satellite Expo, and even the Satellite Pioneers Event.
Most everything we make here at SatelliteGuys goes back into SatelliteGuys. We buy servers, bandwidth and travel around the country to bring you to all the major events.
For me SatelliteGuys is not a job, it's a hobby or more appropriately a labor of love. There are days when I work 12 – 15 hours on SatelliteGuys. As you have noticed when industry news breaks we normally break the news first of.
SatelliteGuys is something I am very proud of, and I would rather not have the syndicated ads, but unfortunately they are needed to keep the lights on.
Over the next few days I will continue to work on the syndicated ads and hopefully make them less intrusive. While doing this I also hope to fix a number of issues and get the site fully up to vBulletin 3.8.4 style standards.
Sorry for the long note, but I felt obligated to explain to you what's going on and why.
I thank you all for your support and more importantly for making SatelliteGuys a regular stop on your daily Internet browsing routine.
The advertisements shown here at SatelliteGuys are in two separate realms, we have our PROUD Gold Sponsors, which are advertisers that directly advertise here on SatelliteGuys. The Gold Sponsors are some of the best at what they do. Every day I get inquiries from companies looking to become Gold Sponsors. 99.7% of them are turned away as they don't meet our standards, some have customer service issues, other have a bad website, others were just setup and appear to be fly by night.
We want good honest companies that offer good products with great customer support for our members. Sure we could make a mint if we accepted everyone who wanted to give us money to advertise here. But in turn we feel this would not be good for you our members. We truly want the best for you and thus select Gold Sponsors carefully. All users of SatelliteGuys see the ads from our Gold Sponsors as our thanks for supporting us.
The other type of advertiser we have here are what are called "Syndicated Ads" these ads are provided to us by a number of ad networks including Google Adsense, Burst Media, ADSDAQ and ADIFY Media.
While I would rather not want to run these ads, they are needed to help cover the expenses. These Syndicated Ads are pushed to us and are a lot of work. Daily I go through the ads being fed to us and block ads that I feel are not appropriate for SatelliteGuys and our members. On some days this filtering of ads can take 1 to 2 hours. (If you see an ad that is objectionable please take a screenshot of it for me and I will do my best to review it and remove it.)
Where we use to make $1 in syndicated advertising we now make 40 cents. And one of the issues is we keep growing. Growth is not a bad thing and its something I am very proud of but we need to pay for this growth and the downturn in the ad dollar has us making these changes.
I would rather not run these ads here but we need to in order to pay our bills and keep the site free for everyone.
As you might know the economy is having issues and this is affecting the amount of money paid by these syndicated ads. Because of this I have had to make some changes to our ads layout. This was something I did not want to do but had to in order to pay the bills here at the site. Normally for event weeks such as Team Summit we can get anywhere from 30 – 50 new supporting pub members. This year for Team Summit week only 12 people signed up or renewed their Pub Memberships. (Note we did receive one Generous donation from one kind member last week, thank you!)
I really don't want to beg for people to become Pub Members, but do hope that if they have found a value to this site and the help and information we provide that they would consider becoming a supporting Pub Member. Pub Membership is only $20 a year and as part of your Pub Membership all the syndicated ads are removed. One benefit is not only do you not see the syndicated ads, but the pages here on Satellite load almost instantly since everything is coming off our own servers! The time saved in ad loading time itself is enough to pay for the benefit. But being a Pub Member means oh so much more.
For more details on becoming a Supporting Pub Member please visit http://www.satelliteguys.us/payments.php
SatelliteGuys is different then other Satellite sites, look at last week for example where we put 15 lucky SatelliteGuys members face to face with many Dish Network executives including an hour and a half meeting with Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen. Plus in the past we have done other big events such as CES, CEDIA, The Satellite Expo, and even the Satellite Pioneers Event.
Most everything we make here at SatelliteGuys goes back into SatelliteGuys. We buy servers, bandwidth and travel around the country to bring you to all the major events.
For me SatelliteGuys is not a job, it's a hobby or more appropriately a labor of love. There are days when I work 12 – 15 hours on SatelliteGuys. As you have noticed when industry news breaks we normally break the news first of.
SatelliteGuys is something I am very proud of, and I would rather not have the syndicated ads, but unfortunately they are needed to keep the lights on.
Over the next few days I will continue to work on the syndicated ads and hopefully make them less intrusive. While doing this I also hope to fix a number of issues and get the site fully up to vBulletin 3.8.4 style standards.
Sorry for the long note, but I felt obligated to explain to you what's going on and why.
I thank you all for your support and more importantly for making SatelliteGuys a regular stop on your daily Internet browsing routine.
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I agree .. the new ads mean that I now have to scroll left/right to even read any of the forum posts ... very annoying.
Probably 65% of the entire screen area was taken up with ads ...
I removed the site from my firefox/chrome startup tabs. It's not worth the time/effort it takes to scroll each time you want to read a post and a reply.
Sorry Scott ... the new ad format killed it for me. Good luck with the new membership drive though.
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Same here...it's not that I don't understand the economics. I'm a casual visitor at best, though, and can't see spending $20 a year to read post after post in the Dish Network forum about lack of HD content.
The new format (and the constant "Make these ads go away" bug at the top of the screen) makes the site a bit difficult to deal with, at least for me
I agree .. the new ads mean that I now have to scroll left/right to even read any of the forum posts ... very annoying.
Probably 65% of the entire screen area was taken up with ads ...
I removed the site from my firefox/chrome startup tabs. It's not worth the time/effort it takes to scroll each time you want to read a post and a reply.
Sorry Scott ... the new ad format killed it for me. Good luck with the new membership drive though.
Same here...it's not that I don't understand the economics. I'm a casual visitor at best, though, and can't see spending $20 a year to read post after post in the Dish Network forum about lack of HD content.
The new format (and the constant "Make these ads go away" bug at the top of the screen) makes the site a bit difficult to deal with, at least for me
The ad market has changed. Where we use to make $1 we now make 30 cents.
The past 2 weeks we have been trying out other ad networks to see if things were greener with other ad networks.
This was a mistake. But at the same time it needed to be done or else we would have never known.
When the ads return on Tuesday for registered members the only syndicated ads will be from Google Adsense, who is not only the highest paying but also the fastest serving of all the ad networks we tried.
I was not happy with the ads we served over the past two weeks. They were to damn slow.
This weekend I wasn't going to screw around with the ads, got other things cooking so I decided to show people what it was like and how fast the site really can be. So thats why the ad free weekend.
And there you have it.
The past 2 weeks we have been trying out other ad networks to see if things were greener with other ad networks.
This was a mistake. But at the same time it needed to be done or else we would have never known.
When the ads return on Tuesday for registered members the only syndicated ads will be from Google Adsense, who is not only the highest paying but also the fastest serving of all the ad networks we tried.
I was not happy with the ads we served over the past two weeks. They were to damn slow.
This weekend I wasn't going to screw around with the ads, got other things cooking so I decided to show people what it was like and how fast the site really can be. So thats why the ad free weekend.
And there you have it.
TFLEV
Time for another AWESOME video from TFL Electric Vehicles!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyF_RH1m0mc
Direct YouTube Link - Watch the New Tesla Roadster Jump, Fly and Barrel-Roll in Mid-Air!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyF_RH1m0mc
Direct YouTube Link - Watch the New Tesla Roadster Jump, Fly and Barrel-Roll in Mid-Air!
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0k5iT-OlpdE
Direct YouTube Link - The Apple HomeView
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0k5iT-OlpdE
Direct YouTube Link - The Apple HomeView
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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But.....if you like Tulsa King....looks like you would probably like this as well. I don't mind spin-offs as long as they don't involve a sassy niece who moves from the big cityAnother Tulsa King spin off.
I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
No. Bring in someone new.
Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...No. Bring in someone new.
Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)
Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.
Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.
It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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Might be worth a watch when it comes out. Looks like typical big corp against the little guy movie BUT....there is a reason this plot type is so oft repeated, it draws audiences.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-f9OGsKHd4
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-f9OGsKHd4
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If you're going try to read / listen to the book (can't recommend the audio book enough) before this comes out, I'd avoid trailers.
Trailer below, spoiling it to make sure you read the above bold message first. The book / audio book are fantastic. Go into this blind if you can IMO!
Kind of disappointed at how much they show. A lot still to see, but man, some good reveals in the book that are just served up here.
Trailer below, spoiling it to make sure you read the above bold message first. The book / audio book are fantastic. Go into this blind if you can IMO!
Kind of disappointed at how much they show. A lot still to see, but man, some good reveals in the book that are just served up here.
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"Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
www.ign.com
'It Is Time Go!' — Project Hail Mary Is Officially Coming to Prime Video
Amazon has confirmed that Project Hail Mary will be coming to Prime Video.
www.ign.com
That's what I will be watching this weekend."Project Hail Mary" should be on Prime Video starting Friday, July 3.
'It Is Time Go!' — Project Hail Mary Is Officially Coming to Prime Video
Amazon has confirmed that Project Hail Mary will be coming to Prime Video.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place.
A big win for the Patriots, and they are now 3-2.
Browns lose a close one with... The Jets. That is a classic Browns loss (granted, any loss is a classic one it seems). 49'ers, Vikings, and Chiefs remain undefeated. The AFC north have a three way tie at 3-2 for second place.
Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
www.nbcsports.com
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Hopefully nowhere near a microphone.Troy Aikman seems to confirm he'll be leaving ESPN
Aikman says he looks forward to "where my next landing spot will be."
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I had quit watching this show years ago because I ended up more annoyed than entertained. Well......I'm STILL more annoyed than entertained. I DO find it interesting to see how things work behind the scenes at many businesses. What annoys me is how utterly out of touch CEOs are with the companies they run. At the end of almost every episode the head of the company is amazed at how hard the employees have to work and many times have to work around impossible guidelines set forth from headquarters.
I found this one interesting because the new CEO had big plans for this company, Muscle Maker Grill, and it looked like the stores were all pretty busy. Recent history hasn't been good to this company however. I bet the covid lockdowns were the real killer.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIhZm0qkz0o
I found this one interesting because the new CEO had big plans for this company, Muscle Maker Grill, and it looked like the stores were all pretty busy. Recent history hasn't been good to this company however. I bet the covid lockdowns were the real killer.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIhZm0qkz0o
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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