August 19th, 2014
No, that’s not clickbait, or a quiz, or a question…The Verge, one of the more respected technology outlets in America, has named Comcast as the singe worst company in the entire nation. Read more
Categories: DISH & TV news
August 17th, 2014
With DISH recently reporting 7% growth in revenues while net income declined 19% to $171 million. The decline in profits was driven by reductions in other income. If we look at the two important trends, pay-TV subscribers and ARPU (average monthly subscription fee), both were positive for the company. Dish added 40,000 subscribers during the first quarter and ARPU improved 5% as compared to the prior year period. Read more
Categories: DISH & TV news
August 16th, 2014
If you thought the customer service rep heard around the world was all that Comcast was worrying about this summer, think again. The incident was just a string of many recent high profile issues that have plagued the Goliath of a company for over 18 months–claims of slowing down customers’ speeds, monopolistic deals with time warner cable, lobbying congress to an alarming degree are just a few of the problems execs have been dealing with in limbo before an all out PR catastrophe broke out this summer. Read more
Categories: Channels & Shows • DISH & TV news
August 15th, 2014
The now infamous tape of Al Jazeera America cameras being dismantled by police in Ferguson, MO is igniting a debate about press surveillance in the digital world that has been boiling over for several years since NSA revelations and tracking of certain journalists last year in the DOJ have come clear.
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August 12th, 2014
Patience may ultimately pay off for Charlie Ergen.
The chairman of Dish Network has long chronicled his interest in joining his satellite television network with a U.S. wireless carrier, but so far those wireless carriers have been out of reach. Read more
Categories: DISH & TV news
August 8th, 2014
It’s becoming more and more likely that totally customer- and consumer-driven TV is not going to take over the media market anytime soon — no matter how successful Netflix is.
Aereo’s last-ditch gambit last week — to accelerate an appeal in U.S. district court — showed just how desperate the startup is to preserve its remaining cash, but also how distant the notion idea of Web-delivered TV remains. Read more
Categories: DISH & TV news
August 7th, 2014
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worst for Comcast…
Remember that Comcast customer service representative who just wouldn’t let Ryan Block cancel his service? That employee was in Comcast’s retention department, which is a customer’s last stop on their way out.
Retention specialists are trained to persuade a customer to stay, or at least not cancel all their lines of service. Read more
Categories: DISH & TV news
August 6th, 2014
The NY Times is reporting that Rupert Murdoch has declined to purchase Time Warner, which would have been the largest media merger in the last decade — even bigger than the recent Comcast / Time Warner Cable merger that has been making headlines.
At 4:07 p.m. Tuesday, the chief executive of Time Warner Inc., Jeffrey L. Bewkes, received an unexpected email. Read more
Categories: DISH & TV news
August 5th, 2014
Reminder: You still can’t get HBO without paying for other TV channels, too. Read more
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