The DIRECTV Group Announces Third Quarter 2007 Results

[TulsaCoker]

Losing 792,000 subscribers is never good. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how they can lose customers leading up to football season.

Q3 2006 was not a great quarter, so you have to be careful about the percentage figures they're tossing about.

Then what would you call E*? Horrendus!

 

[Senato]

Then what would you call E*? Horrendus!

No - in some trouble right now.

 

[bobojay]

I guess I missed it. How many did *E lose/gain?

 

[TulsaCoker]

They gained about 110,000 net subs. However that is about 60+ percent less this quarter then the last. Their churn rate is 1.96. By compairison, D* gained over twice as many subs this quarter.

 

[moonman]

Washington, D.C. (November 13, 2007) -- EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen yesterday said several reasons were behind his company's 63 percent fall in subscriber growth in the third quarter.
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