Cable Rate Hikes Spur Boom in Satellite TV Sales

[Mark Holtz]

Cable Rate Hikes Spur Boom in Satellite TV Sales
AT&T Cable customers will soon see their rates go up, with basic monthly service breaking the $40 barrier for the first time. The six percent hike has been the last straw for many Sacramento subscribers, who are now turning to satellite television.

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[jeffwtux]

That $40/month barrier seems to be the brink of disaster that I have been predicting. When peoples basic cable goes over that $40/month line they are jumping.

[Jacob S]

With the amount of customers that they would lose, they would not really be making anything more by raising the basic service, would they when they lose the income from those customers? Would a price raise more than make up for that?

[MrAkai]

If, as they claim, it's content costs, then their content costs will go down with evacuating customers.

If they're just saying it's content to ream their customers, then they'll get it instead :)

[Atomic Buffalo]

Lots of people still can't get satellite TV. One, two, three, four... ooh, Marvin Gardens!

Have we reached the point that apartments facing the southern sky command a premium?

:: Atomic Buffalo

[Mike123abc]

Cable will get a boost from digital ready TVs that are finally getting ready to come out. This should save on extra box rentals and allow sets to do things like PIP again. The new digital ready cableTV sets will also have cable HDTV compatibility.

[jeffwtux]

Originally posted by Atomic Buffalo
Lots of people still can't get satellite TV. One, two, three, four... ooh, Marvin Gardens!

Have we reached the point that apartments facing the southern sky command a premium?

:: Atomic Buffalo


What I love is when stuckup, bigotted landlords outlaw dishes altogether. They somehow think that people care about the sight of a dish enough that they wouldn't chose an apartment. They somehow think that Dish's reduce the market value of rent. This clearly couldn't be farther from the truth. I have NEVER met a single person who chose against an apartment because they allowed dishes, but I know of a ton who decided against an apartment because they banned the. I can only hope I'm offending somebody. If you are a landlord and you ban dishes thinking they reduce the value, then you are by far the stupidest person in the history of the world, and I mean that personally.

[zztzed]

Originally posted by jeffwtux
If you are a landlord and you ban dishes thinking they reduce the value, then you are by far the stupidest person in the history of the world, and I mean that personally.
And if you're a landlord who banned dishes, you're probably not reading DBSTalk. :D

[jeffwtux]

Originally posted by zztzed

And if you're a landlord who banned dishes, you're probably not reading DBSTalk. :D


Good point. I kind of knew that, but just making the point.

[Jacob S]

And banning Dishes is against the law.

[scooper]

However, the landlord can prohibit them being attached to the building... making the cement bucket mount the preferred installation.

[MrAkai]

I don't understand why more landlords don't just stick a couple of dishes on the roof with a QAM box and let their tenets subscribe if they want.

I think Dish even has a program that lets the landlords take a cut from the deal too.

[Jacob S]

Or how about providing the leasee's a rent option on the receivers/systems and make some money on it?

Is it illegal to not allow a pole in the yard be permitted by a landlord?

[Mark Holtz]

It's entirely possible that the landlond has a long-term contract with the cable company to allow exclusive access for cable in the apartment buildings.

[Jacob S]

Is exclusive access against the law in that the apartment dweller cannot have satellite? Talk about the merger being a monopoly, this is no different.

[raj2001]

Originally posted by Jacob S
Is exclusive access against the law in that the apartment dweller cannot have satellite? Talk about the merger being a monopoly, this is no different.

I know a couple buildings in Brooklyn where you can't have any access other than satellite (DirecTV) and I believe it's perfectly legal. But I also think that preventing a tenant from erecting a dish is directly against OTARD rules.