Dish Network Subscriber Growth Slows in Q4
February 27, 2008 by admin
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Satellite-TV provider Dish Network (formerly EchoStar Communications) reported increased fourth-quarter revenues but showed weakness in subscriber growth, a key financial metric for cable and satellite operators.
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Dish reported total revenue of $2.89 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007, a 12% increase compared with ...
Read full story by Glen Dickson & John Eggerton at Broadcasting and Cable
The Big Switch: Not Everyone Needs Converter Boxes
February 24, 2008 by admin
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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - We've been talking about the transition to DTV--or digital television--a lot lately. It's what we're calling the Big Switch. Starting next February...
Walmart offers digital converter box coupons
February 21, 2008 by admin
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One week before U.S. households receive the first of thousands of $40 digital converter box coupons, Wal-Mart is stocked and ready with these small converter box units designed to keep home analog TVs receiving a digital signal. Today 3,400 Wal- Mart stores carry a new Magnavox digital converter box, with a retail price of $49.87.
The Nielsen Company estimates...
Gov’t: TV Coupons Are in the Mail
February 17, 2008 by admin
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Coupons days are here for owners of outdated analog televisions.
The federal government said Friday it will begin mailing out $40 coupons next week to consumers to help pay for converter boxes that will save their analog sets from becoming obsolete.
TV viewers who get their programming over an antenna and are not connected to cable or satellite will need a converter box when full-power broadcast stations begin ...
Winners, losers in digital TV transition
February 17, 2008 by admin
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TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna?
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But it's pretty clear which business interests stand to gain.
Cable and satellite TV companies could see a wave of ...
Read full story by Seth Sutel, AP Business Writer at Boston.com
