...the Distant Networks fiasco to quit distracting DISH from their competitive advantage -- HD -- and that includes both national and local programing in HD.
While Charlie's DISH has been scrambling to recover from losing the distant networks legal wrestling match, Rupert's DirecTV has been gaining in the HD area by adding lots of HD locals. What a shrewd strategy -- get your competitor to spend nearly half a year trying not to anger/lose nearly a million subscribers (who are directly effected by the distant networks issue) and in the process anger/lose many other subscribers who just want Dish to provide the HD locals they were 'promised' earlier in the year -- Bloody brilliant !
IMHO you really can't claim to the the "HD leader" if you don't offer HD locals in at least as many areas as your competitor(s). The HD-channel-numbers-padding ZOOM channels become pretty (pun intended) weak once you see how repetitive their content is. So unless Charlie gets back in the game and begins adding the HD locals that were indefinitely postponed from the 2006 schedule, Dish will be #2 in everything -- except bravado and legal wrangling
Talon Dancer
While Charlie's DISH has been scrambling to recover from losing the distant networks legal wrestling match, Rupert's DirecTV has been gaining in the HD area by adding lots of HD locals. What a shrewd strategy -- get your competitor to spend nearly half a year trying not to anger/lose nearly a million subscribers (who are directly effected by the distant networks issue) and in the process anger/lose many other subscribers who just want Dish to provide the HD locals they were 'promised' earlier in the year -- Bloody brilliant !
IMHO you really can't claim to the the "HD leader" if you don't offer HD locals in at least as many areas as your competitor(s). The HD-channel-numbers-padding ZOOM channels become pretty (pun intended) weak once you see how repetitive their content is. So unless Charlie gets back in the game and begins adding the HD locals that were indefinitely postponed from the 2006 schedule, Dish will be #2 in everything -- except bravado and legal wrangling
Talon Dancer