I still remember Blockbuster. How long did that last after Dish purchased it?
I remember I was on a plane going to Las Vegas and the plane landed and more people got on who were going to Vegas.
A guy came and sat next to me and I thought I knew him from somewhere. About halfway through the flight he asked me if my name was Scott. When he asked it suddenly dawned on me who he was. He was Michael Kelly the CEO of Blockbuster.
He was big into satellite when he owned Kelly Broadcasting. So for the rest of the flight we talked about the glory days of Satellite.
We did talk about Blockbuster a bit and he knew the writing was on the wall. Dish never properly executed the deal which in part was to rebrand Dish PPV as Blockbuster. Where you could have a Blockbuster store at your fingertips.
I remember the first Hopper had the Blockbuster logo on it for that reason but it never really came to be.
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