I've been saying this for months. Make the HD channels (that aren't currently available to E* subscribers) available and you increase your subscribers tenfold if they get to use the same box they are using now (and maybe only need an extra dish to look at 61.5).
Better yet, let V* keep access to their frequencies on that bird in exchange for a dirt cheap rate to entice more people to watch the service.
Right now, they only have 40,000 subscribers and they have the stench of death on them. They need to do something drastic. They've gone through 7 or 8 of their nine lives already...........