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The battle of satellite and cable hits streets
Thursday, January 20, 2005
By William LaRue
Staff writer
The war of words between Time Warner Cable and the owner of satellite
service Dish Network is heading today to the streets of Syracuse.
EchoStar Communications, which owns Dish, says it will "denounce high costs
of digital cable" by holding demonstrations at 11 a.m. outside Time Warner's
payment office at 815 Erie Blvd. E. and at 12:30 p.m. outside City Hall at
233 E. Washington St.
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"What Dish Network is trying to get across is that people aren't stuck
paying cable TV's prices. I think it's going to be effective," said Mike
Cerone, owner of Dish dealer Cerone TV & Satellite in Brewerton, who is
helping to staff today's events.
Time Warner spokesman Jeff Unaitis called the planned pickets a cynical
marketing campaign from a satellite company that just announced it's going
to raise its subscription rates by up to 8 percent.
In other cities where Dish has had similar publicity stunts recently, he
said, the only people who showed up with protest signs were employees of
EchoStar and its affiliates, their friends and others whom they hired.
"We think that this is a joke, and we've treated this in other parts of the
country with that light touch," Unaitis said. "We think that our Syracuse
customers are intelligent enough to recognize this is clearly a marketing
promotion."
This is the latest skirmish in an escalating battle in which satellite
companies EchoStar and DirecTV have targeted cable TV subscribers with
aggressive marketing.
Dish Network is airing commercials encouraging viewers to "stop feeding the
cable pig" and switch to satellite TV for lower rates.
Time Warner fought back with a full-page advertisement in Wednesday's
Post-Standard in which the cable company referred to Dish as a "hypocrite"
for raising its own rates.
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The battle of satellite and cable hits streets
Thursday, January 20, 2005
By William LaRue
Staff writer
The war of words between Time Warner Cable and the owner of satellite
service Dish Network is heading today to the streets of Syracuse.
EchoStar Communications, which owns Dish, says it will "denounce high costs
of digital cable" by holding demonstrations at 11 a.m. outside Time Warner's
payment office at 815 Erie Blvd. E. and at 12:30 p.m. outside City Hall at
233 E. Washington St.
Advertisement
"What Dish Network is trying to get across is that people aren't stuck
paying cable TV's prices. I think it's going to be effective," said Mike
Cerone, owner of Dish dealer Cerone TV & Satellite in Brewerton, who is
helping to staff today's events.
Time Warner spokesman Jeff Unaitis called the planned pickets a cynical
marketing campaign from a satellite company that just announced it's going
to raise its subscription rates by up to 8 percent.
In other cities where Dish has had similar publicity stunts recently, he
said, the only people who showed up with protest signs were employees of
EchoStar and its affiliates, their friends and others whom they hired.
"We think that this is a joke, and we've treated this in other parts of the
country with that light touch," Unaitis said. "We think that our Syracuse
customers are intelligent enough to recognize this is clearly a marketing
promotion."
This is the latest skirmish in an escalating battle in which satellite
companies EchoStar and DirecTV have targeted cable TV subscribers with
aggressive marketing.
Dish Network is airing commercials encouraging viewers to "stop feeding the
cable pig" and switch to satellite TV for lower rates.
Time Warner fought back with a full-page advertisement in Wednesday's
Post-Standard in which the cable company referred to Dish as a "hypocrite"
for raising its own rates.
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:18 PM
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