HDTV gets a new player

[SatelliteGuys Reporter]

ADVERTISEMENT All Voom needs now is about 2 million more people like Ferreira and fast. Nine months after Cablevision Systems Corp. the Long Island cable TV company launched Voom at a cost of over 600 million the service has attracted only 25 000 subscribers nationwide. With Voom accounting for less than 1 percent of Cablevision's revenues but nearly half its most recent quarterly loss and threatening to gobble up another 500 million this year many Wall Street analysts have been bluntly urging Cablevision to pull the plug on the would-be third satellite TV provider.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/08/22/hdtv_gets_a_new_player