this has been bugging me

[zap2346]

I don't know if this is a stupid question or not but how do dish and cable companies get the channels they broadcast?
i know you can't receive them with an antenna

 

[vurbano]

I don't know if this is a stupid question or not but how do dish and cable companies get the channels they broadcast?
i know you can't receive them with an antenna

Very large Dishes. Drive by your local cable company and take a look.

 

[zap2346]

thanks

thanks for the answer
i'll do a little research and try to find someone with a very large dish
i have someone in mind

 

[HCI]

thanks for the answer
i'll do a little research and try to find someone with a very large dish
i have someone in mind

what are you planning on doing with it?

 

[zap2346]

reply

what else but give out free tv to everyone in the neighborhood of course

 

[charper1]

LOL - good luck with that, be sure to let us know how this pans out. HaHa.

 

[zap2346]

reply

i feel like tv is too expensive
i'll give it free to residential
and charge for digital channels ch.100 up
and charge businesses even for channels i don't put digital
you get 99 non digital and 100 up is the pay for digitals
it will bring a little profit

 

[zap2346]

add-on

i'm also working on a phone system to bundle with this

 

[HCI]

you do know how expensive installing the system will be? you can pay for tv the rest of your life for just about what you will be able to install this system for.

 

[zap2346]

you see money is nothing i have to worry about

yep i can spend as much money as it takes and still have some

 

[charper1]

i feel like tv is too expensive
i'll give it free to residential
and charge for digital channels ch.100 up
and charge businesses even for channels i don't put digital
you get 99 non digital and 100 up is the pay for digitals
it will bring a little profit

Where is the mention of the needed decoders and the fees you will pay monthly. quarterly, yearly or so (most programming is NOT FREE), the licensing, govt and regulatory permits, insurance and such?


Trust me, this is NOT going to happen and really comes off more as a scam or a severe underestimation of what it is you think you can do.

 

[zap2346]

fcc licensing

my lawyer is going to help me with all the licensing for the phone service but i just recently thought to add tv to the mix
i'll have to speak to her

 

[HCI]

yep i can spend as much money as it takes and still have some

I take donations.

 

[charper1]

I smell fish!

 

[zap2346]

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this is not a scam and i'm just trying to push these money grubbing corperations out of the way

 

[HCI]

this is not a scam and i'm just trying to push these money grubbing corperations out of the way

so were exactly do you live.

 

[charper1]

Then I sincerely and apologetically retract the SCAM comment BUT stand by the severe underestimation. Sorry, just being very truthful.


HEY TATE, see you are Home of the King! I am in Memphis these days; post transfer! Great sticky weather huh?

 

[BigTimMN]

so then you know that cable and sat companies PAY the stations for the rights to carry them, right? ESPN gets $2-3 per subscriber for example.. if not more.

 

[zap2346]

reply to tate

where i live is not important
why do you ask that?

 

[charper1]

Mentioned in post #11 and still not sure what the answer was on that. AND those rates are foe the BIG BOYS; he would either likely be denied or charged out the KRAZY ASS.

so then you know that cable and sat companies PAY the stations for the rights to carry them, right? ESPN gets $2-3 per subscriber for example.. if not more.