I just enjoy general information. I know this -- I suspect I saw my first free HBO weekend almost a decade before you subscribed to cable (1977 in my case.) The house I grew up in never has subscribed to HBO. Mon & Dad did love the free weekends, though. I can confidently say that these free HBO weekends haven't been seen on Cox Cable San Diego for more than 17 years, and probably longer. Nor have they been promoted on-air, on-cable, in-newspaers, on-radio, via billboards, bill inserts, skywriting, telephathically, or otherwise. They do offer an limited-period-HBO bundle discount several times a year, and even Showtime. These are usually geared to premieres of well-known series. ("Sopranos" and "Dexter" come to mind.) I've yet to see one for the "L Word." If somebody said they knew otherwise, I'd simply ask them "on what channel did you watch this free weekend?" And, it'd point out that that channel either 1) didn't exist, or 2) was devoted to digital or 3) was already occupied by a different service. John Willkie -----Original Message----- >From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Jun 9, 2008 10:12 AM >To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: The Real Fight Over Fake News > >At 9:51 AM -0700 6/9/08, John Willkie wrote: >>caveat: by "promotion" I was referring to "free service." >> >>You can find all sorts of crap on the Internet. This was shooting >>crap in a barrel. >> >>For it to be a promotion, it needs to be promoted and/or advertised. >>It wasn't. >> >>Prove me wrong. Show me tear-sheets or pdfs from San Diego >>newspapers or weeklies where this was promoted. Show me the >>commericials that were clipped (in real-time) from local cable >>systems or tv stations. Heck, why didn't you refer to the Cox Cable >>San Diego web site? Was that too relevant for your barrel? Or was >>there no information to support your parry? > >These free HBO weekends happen once or twice a year. The main >promotion takes place on the cable system itself - they run promos on >a wide range of channels telling subscribers about the free "preview" >weekend. > >They also put flyers inside the monthly cable bill just in advance of >these preview weekends. > >Regards >Craig > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > >- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at >FreeLists.org > >- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word >unsubscribe in the subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.