The wholesale price for channels are low. Pennies to maybe about a buck and some small change for something like high cost ESPN per subscriber. I saw a chart about 6 months ago. Some one is making easy money there is no doubt about that. That was the whole thing behind the bud in the beginning. If you remember Shawn Kenny used to preach that all C band wanted was a fair price. C band never got as low as he and many others wanted but it still was very good. Cable & pizza hated that and did all they could to change that so even now while there are still benefits to having H2H the costs are quite high vs the old days.
As far as the uplinkers on Ku look at HITS they abandoned Ku because of rain fade that was one of the reasons they went to AMC-18 vs G16 ku. Remember HITS supplies to any commercial establishment that wants it. Cable don't go out from rain fade it goes out from trunk amps going down from power outages or other weather related issues in storms with the local delivery system. If your lucky enough to live like a block from the headend you may be up 99% of the time. If you live like I do a good 10 miles from Comcast's plant here in Chicago there are maybe 100 or more trunk amps and miles of cable between me and the plant. Cable goes out quite often even in good weather and can be out for days after a good storm. The reason I got into c band originally was to have reliability of the signal and it always gave me that. While DirecTV is up most of the time soon as the weather turns rainy with moderate or heavy rain its gone. To me thats just B.S. Its not much better that RTN when it was on G10 ku. It went out all the time with rain here and that was a pisser. I used to switch to the G3 feeds on C band and watch them during storms. While ku is good for aesthetics and sales to the masses it truly sucks as a full time delivery system consumer or commercial. So your dammed if you do dammed if you don't with cable or pizza they both have reliability problems and for the cost you pay into them each month there should be none.
The masses have been brainwashed into accepting this and poor digital picture quality with the high prices. It wouldn't be so bad if you were spending $5.00 a month for this quality but with many bills being $100 or more a month with HD lite, DVR's multi rooms etc its outragous.
As far as the uplinkers on Ku look at HITS they abandoned Ku because of rain fade that was one of the reasons they went to AMC-18 vs G16 ku. Remember HITS supplies to any commercial establishment that wants it. Cable don't go out from rain fade it goes out from trunk amps going down from power outages or other weather related issues in storms with the local delivery system. If your lucky enough to live like a block from the headend you may be up 99% of the time. If you live like I do a good 10 miles from Comcast's plant here in Chicago there are maybe 100 or more trunk amps and miles of cable between me and the plant. Cable goes out quite often even in good weather and can be out for days after a good storm. The reason I got into c band originally was to have reliability of the signal and it always gave me that. While DirecTV is up most of the time soon as the weather turns rainy with moderate or heavy rain its gone. To me thats just B.S. Its not much better that RTN when it was on G10 ku. It went out all the time with rain here and that was a pisser. I used to switch to the G3 feeds on C band and watch them during storms. While ku is good for aesthetics and sales to the masses it truly sucks as a full time delivery system consumer or commercial. So your dammed if you do dammed if you don't with cable or pizza they both have reliability problems and for the cost you pay into them each month there should be none.
The masses have been brainwashed into accepting this and poor digital picture quality with the high prices. It wouldn't be so bad if you were spending $5.00 a month for this quality but with many bills being $100 or more a month with HD lite, DVR's multi rooms etc its outragous.
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