Bizarre Strategy for a Dead/Dying Service

[mangombia]

Got this email today, which is just strange for a company that disposed of its sole means of fulfilling its service obligations.

 

[voomster2]

I got it too.

Mr. Dolan needs to stop reading his love letters from Satguys long enough to distribute some sort of press release explaining what is or isn't going on!

 

[FTLOSM]

I got the same email today and wondered what the heck?

I almost had my dad signed up for an install till all this stuff started happening in the news about voom, so now he has decided to wait a bit...

Gotta run, I am back to watching groundhog day on 9 channels for the next 24 hours...

 

[gutter]

Hey with Groundhog day running on all 10 channels...it is like having Movie on demand. Except you only have one choice. Still funny.

 

[vurbano]

Got this email today, which is just strange for a company that disposed of its sole means of fulfilling its service obligations.

Really??? when did AMC6 fall out of the sky?

 

[rvsixer]

Really??? when did AMC6 fall out of the sky?

Exactly...and they haven't "disposed" of or quit transmitting on Rainbow1 either.

 

[Dvlos]

For all we know, Voom will mirror transmission on AMC6, and start tuning everyone over to the new sat, then finally turn the keys over to E*. I'm just waiting for something good like that to happen.

I have an idea on how we could make it work, since James Dolan aka Rock Boy, is the one who brilliantly sold off Rainbow 1 I say we distract him long enough so that his father can take control again:

 

[Walter L.]

Really??? when did AMC6 fall out of the sky?

Maybe what I posted here is happening:

1) The Dolans buy the remaining of VOOM. Without the satellite it shouldn't be that expensive.

2) Lets's assume a period of 3-6 months of pending FCC approval during which VOOM can continue using Rainbow-1. Without stopping the broadcast on Rainbow-1, VOOM starts broadcasting all channels on Rainbow-2 (AMC-6) and using MPGE-4 (that will even allow extra capacity for new channels).

3) After Rainbow-2 is up, VOOM starts migrating customers. A single trip from the installer will re-position the dish, change the LNB and install the MPEG-4 module into the STB.