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Liberty Media “Looking Over Rainbow Media”

B.Greenway — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:42:02 +0000

When I first glanced over Rainbow Media may not ring a bell but the AMC channel, IFC and WE (Women’s Entertainment) might. Rainbow also controls a little package of high definition channels you may have heard of, Voom HD Neworks. A deal for Rainbow’s programming assets, which also include about 20 high-definition genre cable networks [...]

Liberty Media “Looking Over Rainbow Media”

Follow-up: Changes at DirecTV

B.Greenway — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:57:09 +0000

Just a quick follow-up and a few additional observations about the Liberty Media – DirecTV buyout, it appears as if

Follow-up: Changes at DirecTV

Changes at DirecTV?

B.Greenway — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:05:22 +0000

DirecTV is no longer the glowing child in the eyes of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch as it once was back in 2003. After a two year feud with Liberty Media’s chairman John Malone over his 19% stake in News Corp, Murdoch has settled on giving up his aggressively sought after satellite provider, along with [...]

Changes at DirecTV?

DirecTV announces 25 new local HD markets

B.Greenway — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:06:56 +0000

DirecTV announced

DirecTV announces 25 new local HD markets

How Not to Run a Satellite Provider

B.Greenway — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:15:33 +0000

Just in case you’ve ever wondered to yourself ‘self: how could we really damage the reputation of our satellite business?’ fear not, I’ve got some good examples for you. First build the biggest pay-TV satellite operation in the world and then ignore HD, while your closest competitor slowly but surely builds up their HD offerings. [...]

How Not to Run a Satellite Provider

Skeptical on the DISH, DirecTV Merger

B.Greenway — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:27:08 +0000

You may have seen reports about a possible merger between DirecTV and DISH Network and while the financial

Skeptical on the DISH, DirecTV Merger

DirecTV’s ambitious HD plan

B.Greenway — Mon, 08 May 2006 18:08:03 +0000

Last week I mentioned the 14 markets that recently received HD locals from DirecTV. Today I ran across an article from

DirecTV’s ambitious HD plan

DirecTV expands local HD into 14 new markets

B.Greenway — Wed, 03 May 2006 15:35:36 +0000

The line between cable and satellite continues to blur as both services now offer: premium and local HD programming bundled leased HD-DVR’s. DirecTV also recently announced 14 new markets eligible for local channels in HD: •Cincinnati Ohio •Madison, Wisconsin •Austin, Texas •Memphis, Tennessee •Albuquerque, New Mexico •Portland, Maine & Oregon. •Grand Rapids, Michigan •Providence, Rhode [...]

DirecTV expands local HD into 14 new markets

Good news for DirecTV TiVo users

B.Greenway — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:16:15 +0000

DirecTV has agreed to extend their current agreement with TiVo for another three years, ensuring that the existing 2.8 million subscribers who use the popular DVR solution with DirecTV will be able to continue using their TiVo branded devices. I don’t know if won a lawsuit against Dish Network for patent infringement. Good news for [...]

Good news for DirecTV TiVo users

TNT-HD comes to DirecTV

B.Greenway — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:55:18 +0000

The patience of DirecTV subscribers has finally paid off, as big D is Satellite Guys another HD channel might be in the works for DirecTV, specifically

TNT-HD comes to DirecTV

DIRECTV HD-TiVo, the price is right

B.Greenway — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:46:13 +0000

Back in June I mentioned that DirecTV would offer free or nearly free NDS HD-DVR’s. Well it would appear as if the NDS badged boxes are taking longer than expected to ship, so DirecTV is now offering the TiVo HD-DVR for $200.00 after mail-in rebate. The up-front cost is actually $299.00 plus $14.95 for shipping [...]

DIRECTV HD-TiVo, the price is right

DirecTV moving forward with HD locals

B.Greenway — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:08:42 +0000

DirecTV is set to launch local HD channels in MPEG4 on or around November 1st, just in time for football season, that is if you upgrade your hardware to an MPEG4 compliant device. During today’s 2nd quarter

DirecTV moving forward with HD locals

Free DVR’s for DirecTV subscribers follow up

B.Greenway — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:44:38 +0000

The no such thing as a free lunch rule is still in full effect over at DirecTV, not that it should come as a surprise, but the details are interesting nonetheless. As it turns out these “free” DVR’s may indeed be free for new subscribers but current subscribers will most likely have to pay a [...]

Free DVR’s for DirecTV subscribers follow up

Free DVR’s for DirecTV subscribers

B.Greenway — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:50:06 +0000

According to this Slate article by Jay Epstein, Rupert Murdoch is quoted as saying “every (DirecTV) subscriber will be getting either a free digital video recorder or one for nominal amounts of money.” Ok, great but why? Normally the news that 20 million DirecTV subscribers are getting a free to nearly free DVR is big [...]

Free DVR’s for DirecTV subscribers

DirecTV increases price on NFL Sunday ticket

B.Greenway — Sun, 15 May 2005 11:48:25 +0000

I find this to be just a bit past 12 on the lame clock. DirecTV has increased prices on their NFL Sunday ticket package, but the bulk of the increase is placed directly on the backs of HD subscribers. Is this really a company that’s trying to become the high definition leader? Or one that [...]

DirecTV increases price on NFL Sunday ticket