I will take it a little step further and add UHD, CinemxHD, ESPN2HD & STARZHD. This will be the icing on the cake and will put a big whole on Cable Companies and D* (as far as HD is concerned).
If I were Charlie...
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Well, Charlie has proved he's smater than all of us. As your sig says, he'll do it when it makes financial sense to E*.
Sounds like 14 to me (although the retailer mail listed other channels).Sean Mota said:
So, how much does Charlie have to apologize for lying about when new HD was coming? Sure seems like he was sandbagging everyone.
JL
Guys,
this is huge for E*. E* is gambling that it will bring them more HD customers from Cable or D*. Cable will have a very hard time catching up to E* and D* may catch up but not for at least another month or two (according to the rumors). Just because D* says that they will get them in 1-2 months does not necessarily mean that they will. If I reading this correctly, E* and Dolan thought about the benefits of doing this venture together. E* benefits by putting themselves in the front of the HD arena. Dolan on the other hand gets to play hardball with Cable and D* if they want the channels. In the mean time, E* gets exclusivity until D* agrees on a price which I will not be surprised if it is more than what E* is paying.
this is huge for E*. E* is gambling that it will bring them more HD customers from Cable or D*. Cable will have a very hard time catching up to E* and D* may catch up but not for at least another month or two (according to the rumors). Just because D* says that they will get them in 1-2 months does not necessarily mean that they will. If I reading this correctly, E* and Dolan thought about the benefits of doing this venture together. E* benefits by putting themselves in the front of the HD arena. Dolan on the other hand gets to play hardball with Cable and D* if they want the channels. In the mean time, E* gets exclusivity until D* agrees on a price which I will not be surprised if it is more than what E* is paying.
Yes, I agree. However, the question is: Does CVC has bandwith available? If they do, those channels will be on CVC. I can't see Sr. Dolan competing against himself. However, if Sr. Dolan has no interest on CVC, he may sell CVC and spin-off the Rainbow Media business.
You're assuming that C. Dolan is running the show. What if all this Rainbow activity is J. Dolan asserting himself?Sean Mota said:
mdonnelly said:
J. Dolan has very little to do with Rainbow Media. He is more into the CVC and Knicks/MSG stuff. Sr. Dolan has always been behind Rainbow Media.
I believe Scott said that one of the channels that could be tuned on the new MPEG-4 box was Starz-HD...
That slot would be handy to launch the rest of the locals (particularly if they can get a spotbeam satellite there).
