Talkback
by Staff -- Multichannel News, 2/9/2009 2:00:00 AM
Still Not Sure About the Box
(RE: “Democrats Stump As DTV Transition Date Change Vote Nears,” Multichannel.com, Feb. 5): I seriously doubt the numbers of people on the coupon waiting list really reflect who is in need of a DTV converter box. Just this past week, a woman wrote in to the Q&A of our newspaper’s weekly TV magazine, “We subscribe to Comcast cable and have an analog TV.
Do we or do we not need a converter box for digital TV? Or is the box for HD?” Then, I’ve spoken to sales people at a local Radio Shack over some customers coming in and purchasing boxes with the coupons, only to come back later to return the boxes when they finally realize they didn’t need them in the first place. Thus, with this kind of basic confusion over HD, DTV, analog TV and so on, I’m almost certain the numbers of people on the coupon waiting list is overinflated.
Samuel Vincent, Hyde Park, Pa.
Dishing on Ergen’s Potential Radio Deal
RE: “Is Charlie Sirius,” The Satellite Dish, Feb. 5: What else could there be? Cross-marketing, but why does Dish Network need to do that? [Sirius] XM [Satellite Radio] does have quite a bit of untapped potential, but I don’t see it growing till the economy improves. If they were able to lower their price and have more advertising, I think they would grab a lot more subs. In the long run, it would increase revenue.
Tim House
Stern Warning for Expensive Talent
The Sirius network, stripped of expensive programming (bye Howard) and [subscriber acquisition costs], is a very inexpensive company to operate, especially for Charlie. He’ll give it away for free to Dish customers. He can use it for several channels of mobile video as well. Sirius is the cheapest spectrum — 24 Megahertz, or 7.2 billion MHz pops, available in the world — and you get a 29 million subs for free — great deal. Charlie is brilliant.
Bob Teemty
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