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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Maybe the idea would be like a true merger rather than an acquisition of one by the other, including maybe a name change to DiSH Direct. It would have both the combined debts and assets.
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    Ch.7 on in Chicago; LSU game. Isn't a streaming version of same programming a value to sat subs if they can use it in a VOD manner? Or is it linear-only? Certainly they could use it away from home. Looks to me that we're in exactly the same place as before as far as people having to buy...
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    In Chicago for weekend, no local ABC- "Disney is blocking you from your sports, entertainment and kids & family channels while DIRECTV (is it all caps now?) works to reach a new agreement." I thought it was DTV doing the blocking out. I can see people scratching their heads and saying 'How can...
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    Well, he may simply be closer to bandwidth/throughput threshold on his setup. It would seem patently illegal to me for a programmer to ask a provider to sign away right to sue or complain to FCC. Finally, a sizeable provider has stood up to them, though years late as streaming muddles everything.
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    Sports often is more digitally demanding due to all of the motion.
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    Whatis ETF? Exchange Traded Fund? Does anyone remember the DiSH dispute with the dueling crawl messages?
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    Over weekend I went to local pub and half the screens were on the dispute message.
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    Verizon buying Frontier

    I've seen the progression here from Illinois Bell to GTE to Verizon to Frontier. I remember thinking "what's a Verizon," but I digress. I had Frontier DSL until a local-regional (Mid Century) put fiber into the town, and have now been on that for a half-dozen years. Currently I have broadband...
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    That's my point- there shouldn't be any price point for ESPN that gets foisted onto every cable/sat subscriber regardless of whether they want it. They had a good game going back in the day in colluding with all the other programmers to only allow providers to sell them all bundled together, or...
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    But if ESPN goes alacarte and drops off of millions of cable/sat packages it was mandated into, it'll never be able to charge enough to make up the revenue loss. A majority of those losing it from their packages won't care, especially if they're given a significant rate cut or other goody to go...
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    What exactly is the credit for?
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    Disney/ESPN & DIRECTV Reach Deal

    Televised sport is a disease of addiction. The chance to get away from some of it and stop paying the purveyor could be a good thing. It's my understanding that ESPN alone (and/or combined with Disney et al.) costs service providers an enormous per-sub amount which must be paid through for...
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    Upcoming Contract Disputes for Dish?

    I meant would you miss it.
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    Upcoming Contract Disputes for Dish?

    what about fox news
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    That's what I'm saying. So that would already be covered under "wireless," as would be a WISP?
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    After reading through, I'm curious- are there people watching TV from their mobile devices, if so how many, and does it work for them? Also, the cell co's offer "fixed" broadband, either standalone or combined with mobile. Shouldn't that count as a broadband household?
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    I REVERTED US BACK

    That might be it, made some settings changes after getting an adware trojan. Don't mind us, like, blocking ads on here do you?
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    I REVERTED US BACK

    OK, looks good. Noticed I had to log back in.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Mid-90s. By late 90s they were starting with free "leased" equipment. But in the 80s folks paid significant 4-figures for C-band. In early 80s it ran around 10k, using commercial-grade gear.
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    I REVERTED US BACK

    Verboten!
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Perhaps they're afraid of losing too many sat subs to streaming by making it that attractive, leaving DiSH with even fewer of mainly just broadband-desert subs.
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    Gov't is currently funding broadband build-out in more rural areas, but really people themselves are driving rural inclusion- they expect broadband connectivity and that expectation is driving build-out as well. If they can work from home, they're choosing the hinterlands to work from, and they...
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    EchoStar/Dish raises doubts about 'ability to continue as a going concern'

    How much $$$ does charlie have that he sucked out of the business over the years