I would heartily endorse your plea for everyone to inundate the FCC with our feelings EXCEPT for the fact that I think that there are far too many (from the comments I read on this forum) with some cockamamey ideas about how the merger would NOT be in the best interests of those of us that are satellite consumers.
The merger is important for the entire nation in my view because it'll produce a company big enough to go after the real demon in America's television land ... the dreaded evil known as "cable".
"It'll' eliminate competition" - many people holler. Au contraire, IMO. It will provide some REAL competition between DBS and "cable" for the hearts, minds, and wallets of the American public for the first time. The cable industry knows this and are working their asses off trying to prevent the merger from happening. Those of us in the DBS satellite community that oppose the merger are in essence climbing into bed with cableTV. Ugh! I can hardly imagine anything more revolting than that!
The merger is important for the entire nation in my view because it'll produce a company big enough to go after the real demon in America's television land ... the dreaded evil known as "cable".
"It'll' eliminate competition" - many people holler. Au contraire, IMO. It will provide some REAL competition between DBS and "cable" for the hearts, minds, and wallets of the American public for the first time. The cable industry knows this and are working their asses off trying to prevent the merger from happening. Those of us in the DBS satellite community that oppose the merger are in essence climbing into bed with cableTV. Ugh! I can hardly imagine anything more revolting than that!
