We finally get some reality.
Charlie is one person. He has 24 hours each day just the like the rest of us, including eating, sleeping, etc.
I think that the Sirius XM deal has been occupying a lot of his attention over the past couple of months. Currently, many corporations are very short of money, and those that have money (such as EchoStar) can buy other companies for a fraction of what they would have cost a year or two ago.
So, day-to-day operations
are handled by someone else.
There is a whole Programming Department who are the ones dealing with Viacom and News Corp about deals for channels.
I am amazed when people say things like they are upset at "Charlie" for not making a certain channel Free Preview, when the decision was undoubtedly two levels below him and he was likely unaware of the whole situation.
It's not 1997 any more...