From: Barry Brown <barrysb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sep 5, 2006 4:55 PM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Echostar make or break
Bert,
I would only be too happy to buy into LIL if the locals offered some
worthwhile programming for my community. First, living some distance
from the metro hub, there is little news or feature coverage about
my town even though it's one of the major tourist attractions on the
east coast. Second, just a few local commercials they air are about
the in-town merchants. Third, being a high-cost "repeater station"
for network programming, IMHO, is not a good business plan in this
day and age, particularly when so called "cable programming" is
getting so much better.
In my opinion, what we need are just a few local stations that
provide 24/7 programming unique to this entire DMA, not just the
metro area. They compete with all the other programming services on
an even playing field and thus let the national feeds come direct
from the service provider just as Echostar wanted to do in the first
place. Then I would subscribe to the locals just as I subscribe to my
community newspaper.
Barry
Albert Manfredi wrote:
I think it *is* working. The correct answer was supposed to be "yes,"
when Barry was asked about buying the local into local service. The
waiver only counts when DBS doesn't have LIL service for a market.
That's what I was wondering the other day. Why does EchoStar
continue to
offer networks from NYC, if they have spectrum available for local
into
local? Evidently, there are folks like Barry who don't want local
broadcaster content at all. And that's exactly what the problem
is, from
the local broadcasters' point of view.
Bert
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