DishNetwork--the next Krispy Kreame?

[birkoff]

I'm venting, but Superbowl is approaching and I know for
certain I'm going to be watching it on SD. I live in the sticks
or "white" area and there is no OTA option.

I was watching one of Fox's financial programs on Saturday
morning and the Sirrus v XM radio debate came up. One of
the "experts" commented that he thought both systems were
obsolete, cause eventually the internet would be on your
car radio and you wouldn't have 100 channels or 200 channels,
but thousands of channels. That made me think.

I bought a HD Sony television 2 years ago and I see LESS
HD "worth-watching" programming then when I first signed up with Dish.
I've given up on Charlie even wanting to discuss HD. And with Voom
dying, I'm beginning to hope for the son-of-Dish, or maybe Directv,
or anyone who has a better business plan.

My point is, technology changes rapidly....change quickly or die.
It has happened with telephone, it may happen with radio, I hope it
happens with HDTV.

Birkoff

 

[GaryPen]

Mmmmmmmmm. Donuts.

 

[BFG]

What happened to Krispy Kreme?

and Gary it's Doughnuts

 

[GaryPen]

They sold their satellite and uplink facility to DirecTV.

 

[BFG]

huh?

 

[jsanders]

Atkins dieters decided to cut out the carb happy Krispy Kreame donuts, and their profits suffered.

 

[GaryPen]

What happened to Krispy Kreme?

and Gary it's Doughnuts

Not where I'm from. In NY, they're donuts.

 

[BFG]

yeah ok. But for the Krispy Kreme brand it's specfically Doughnuts

 

[GaryPen]

Psst. It's "Krispy Kreme".

 

[BFG]

Yeah I keep forgetting. I don't have enough money to keep buying that vowel

 

[Tahoerob]

What happened to Krispy Kreme?

and Gary it's Doughnuts

They followed the basic American company pathway:
1. Expand really big too fast.
2. Think that high calorie, pure sugar product is a good long term food idea!
3. Get surprised by low carb craze & media buzz over fat American swhoeat too mych sugar!!!!
4. LOSE their ass (kinda like Voom?)
5. Can old CEO (with great golden parachute), hire turnaround CEO, employees get fired & lose benefits.
6. Close stores & shrink down to a size that they were BEFORE expansion.

 

[BFG]

Oh didn't know about 3-6. It's still operating around me, so I thought business is usual...

 

[gpflepsen]

They still open in Vegas, at the Excalibur?

 

[birkoff]

Of course a bunch of smug OTA'ers would only
think about the Doughnuts!!

Birkoff

 

[jsanders]

They followed the basic American company pathway:
1. Expand really big too fast.
2. Think that high calorie, pure sugar product is a good long term food idea!
3. Get surprised by low carb craze & media buzz over fat American swhoeat too mych sugar!!!!
4. LOSE their ass (kinda like Voom?)
5. Can old CEO (with great golden parachute), hire turnaround CEO, employees get fired & lose benefits.
6. Close stores & shrink down to a size that they were BEFORE expansion.

There needs to be a pump 'n' dump scheme in there somewhere.

 

[Bill R]

Atkins dieters decided to cut out the carb happy Krispy Kreame donuts, and their profits suffered.

The "low carb" craze may have added to Krispy Kreame's problems but that is not the complete story. The allegations are that they have been "cooking the books" for years. They have ousted CEO Scott Livengood and the SEC is conducting a securities probe because of the allegations of padded sales figures.

While Echostar has some problems I really don't feel that there is any fraud going on. I think all of DISH's problems are related to poor (or mediocre) management.

 

[Peter Parker]

What happened to Krispy Kreme?

and Gary it's Doughnuts

It was and technically still is. But Dunkin Donuts was so successful that theur alternative spelling sort of caught on.

 

[hbk409]

Krispy Kreme is doughnuts and Dunkin is donuts. dont ask why it just is

 

[Bobby]

But when you look it up, one is a variant of the other.....

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=donut

 

[fkostyn]

Quite honestly, I just got sick of the donuts of themselves....... go figure