Why doesn't D* make an offer for the remaining assets of Rainbow ?

[Barney]

Just wondering if there's a reason why D* doesn't offer a "bid" for Rainbow (VOOM)? Should get a pretty good deal!

Barney

 

[charper1]

I have also wondered why or if they would try to get the content. If sure its not all great, but equally sure its not all bad. I mean don't they have the exclusive rights the the NFL Channel-HD? What about the Tennis Channel, isn't that exclusive too? They also have to have a few decent movies in their 10 self made HD channels. What other channels do they have ? I did notice at least that as of 10am this morning V* dot com was back online with new phone numbers, so maybe Dolan is pressing hard and will keep it on the air.

 

[rkr0923]

waste of money.....D* has thier on projects ongoing right now

 

[boba]

What assets are there for Directv to get, a few programming contracts? The receivers are not compatible with Directv's broadcasts. There are very few customers who would be new to Directv. Directv would probably rather negotiate it's own contracts seeing 14 million subscribers give a much better bargining power than 30-40 thousand does.

 

[Barney]

What assets are there for Directv to get, a few programming contracts? The receivers are not compatible with Directv's broadcasts. There are very few customers who would be new to Directv. Directv would probably rather negotiate it's own contracts seeing 14 million subscribers give a much better bargining power than 30-40 thousand does.

40-50K HD customers is pretty good in my book. $10.99 a customer....& growing & some of the HD programming I'd be interested in (Monster movies...yeah baby!)...along with getting my HD-DVR in the near future...

Barney

 

[rad]

40-50K HD customers is pretty good in my book. $10.99 a customer....& growing & some of the HD programming I'd be interested in (Monster movies...yeah baby!)...along with getting my HD-DVR in the near future...

Barney

But there's a number of these 40-50K that would drop V* if D* took them over becaus they don't like Rupert or won't be a customer of a company that does HD Lite. They also don't have the capacity at this time to add any more HD programming (I'd rather see them add the national HD channels that are out there now vs. Voom specific).

 

[lee espinoza]

40-50K HD customers is pretty good in my book. $10.99 a customer....& growing & some of the HD programming I'd be interested in (Monster movies...yeah baby!)...along with getting my HD-DVR in the near future...

Barney

DIRECTV as over half a MILLION HD subs v* as 40-50k

 

[hancox]

E* also already has dishes pointing at 61.5

D* only has a few left of 101, small %age

 

[rkr0923]

MonsterHD is the Only channel I've seen worth having......would I pay for it, NO!
if included in HD package I'd watch a few movies they had

 

[Barney]

MonsterHD is the Only channel I've seen worth having......would I pay for it, NO!
if included in HD package I'd watch a few movies they had

that bad, huh?

 

[CWS_kahuna]

I happen to like some of Voom's programming. I like Rush HD, Rave HD, & Animania HD from what I have seen. I have also caught a few movies on Monsters HD and the Kung FU HD channel that I have enjoyed. While I don't have Voom I do hope that if they do not pull through something positive happens with their programming. I have said before I feel a new HD lineup of Voom 1 & 2 could easily be created (something similar to InHD 1 & 2) and made available to all providers. They have plenty of programming to keep 2 channels going with few repeats.