It's less of a problem since satellite TV came on the scene going back to 1994. With competition on the scene, they had to provide better customer service, and they also had to begin rolling out a digital product. |
Programming fees have significantly outpaced the average increase of a DirecTV customer's bill. |
That really put us on the same competitive footing as cable. |
The federal legislation that allows us to provide local channels requires that we use the Nielsen Media Research designated market areas to determine which local channels we can legally offer in a given area. |
The ruling serves as a reminder that there are consequences to signal theft, whether you're O.J. or John Q. Public, ... The judge made the correct ruling based on the evidence. Our signal-integrity guy walked in the door of the Simpson residence and saw the devices as they were intercepting our programming. |
We don't expect it to have any impact on our Mega Madness package. The experience is not the same. |
We have been and will be competitive with any pay TV provider. We're spreading our costs over a wide customer base.... It's unlikely another competitor in the market place will have an effect (on rates). |
We have serious concerns that the end result of this auction will be that terrestrial services will begin to operate in our frequency band and interfere with millions of satellite TV customers' television service. |
We're working on a fail-safe solution to be sure this doesn't happen again. |