Back from the opening ceremonies, Brett Michaels is still onstage playing.
Walked away like a lot of people in attendance... disappointed.
Charlie did an "interview" with Bobby Sherman of Satellite Business News. You could tell that the entire thing was scripted, and if it wasn't it sure felt that way. Charlie gave us some insight to the future, paying one price for your entertainment and being able to watch it anywhere anytime. He talked about Blockbuster and his other acquisitions but didn't go into real details.
He spent a long time talking about DIRECTV and kept reffering to them as the Gold Standard. He said that if he was a retailer he would sell both DISH Network and DIRECTV. He then went on praising DIRECTV and what a great job they were doing and how much he wants to get DISH up to that Gold Standard.
And that was about it from him.
Amir came out and introduced Bret Michaels then we had darkness on the stage for about 6 minutes. Bret was introduced again by a different voice and again darkness on the stage for a long time... then Guns & Roses "Welcome to the Jungle" started to play... and the entire song played once the song was over Bret FINALLY came out on stage starting with the Poison classic, "Talk Dirty To Me". We then decided to leave as its been a long day...
And that was about it... very disappointing.
As we were walking out a few folks from DISH that I know asked me what I thought and I told them the truth and told them I thought it sucked. They asked me if I was waiting for the surprise... and I said yes and they said it will be announced tomorrow at the General Assembly. God I sure hope so. I want some excitement from this Team Summit and so do the retailers here. As we walked back to the hotel a bunch of retailers were all saying how disappointing tonight was. I sure hope tomorrow is a better day!
And with that I am heading to bed, I will go to bed hoping for a MUCH better tomorrow. Tomorrows event kicks off at 11 am ET.
Goodnight everyone!
