Stojko
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join:2007-10-20
St John'S, NL
 ·NBTel now Aliant
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Re: in the news today
said by Steve Mehs  :As we all know satellite and cable customers will not be affected by the digital transition, so let's take a look at the numbers shall we. According to the total on the 2008-2009 DMA Ranking put out days ago by Nielsen Media Research there are ~114.5 million TV homes in America. DirecTV - 17.1 Million Dish Network - 13.8 Million 30.9 Million Satellite TV Subscribers 61.1 Million Cable TV Subscribers (top 25 cablecos only) Plus Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse and smaller cable operations, you're talking upward of 95 million homes that won't even be affected by the digital transition right off the bat » www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic···SOs.aspxThe whole transition is way over blown, the vast majority of America won't even be affected by it. This should have happened years ago, analog TV should not exist in 2008. What about people with cabins who don't have access to cable, don't want to subscribe to cable or satellite or can't afford to subscribe to cable or satellite? Now they have to buy a converter box for every television that isn't connected to cable or satellite. |
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MadMANN
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join:2005-08-19
 ·Comcast
| reply to chronoss2008
said by chronoss2008 :the ratings for every show dropped 75% for reasons unknown. Seems people didn't buy into that digital crap and oh well the rabbit ears still work.... You don't have to buy into it if you don't want. You just won't have any OTA TV to watch if you don't. The rabbit ears are useless when you don't have anything decoding the signal. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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said by Steve Mehs :As we all know satellite and cable customers will not be affected by the digital transition, so let's take a look at the numbers shall we. According to the total on the 2008-2009 DMA Ranking put out days ago by Nielsen Media Research there are ~114.5 million TV homes in America. DirecTV - 17.1 Million Dish Network - 13.8 Million 30.9 Million Satellite TV Subscribers 61.1 Million Cable TV Subscribers (top 25 cablecos only) Plus Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse and smaller cable operations, you're talking upward of 95 million homes that won't even be affected by the digital transition right off the bat » www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic···SOs.aspxThe whole transition is way over blown, the vast majority of America won't even be affected by it. This should have happened years ago, analog TV should not exist in 2008. Or you can look at it that
A) those 20 million homes with OTA only is 3 million more homes than DirecTv's subscriber base.
B) of the 95 million how many have multiple TVs. Some of which may not be connected to cable or satelite?
That being said I do think it's overblown because of the large number TV with digital tuners built in being sold and by the large number of digial boxes being sold. My local wal-mart is always being sold out of them. |
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Steve Mehs
Go Sabres
join:2005-07-16
| reply to chronoss2008
As we all know satellite and cable customers will not be affected by the digital transition, so let's take a look at the numbers shall we. According to the total on the 2008-2009 DMA Ranking put out days ago by Nielsen Media Research there are ~114.5 million TV homes in America.
DirecTV - 17.1 Million
Dish Network - 13.8 Million
30.9 Million Satellite TV Subscribers
61.1 Million Cable TV Subscribers (top 25 cablecos only)
Plus Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse and smaller cable operations, you're talking upward of 95 million homes that won't even be affected by the digital transition right off the bat
»www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic···SOs.aspx
The whole transition is way over blown, the vast majority of America won't even be affected by it. This should have happened years ago, analog TV should not exist in 2008.
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chronoss2008
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join:2008-03-29 | the ratings for every show dropped 75% for reasons unknown.
Seems people didn't buy into that digital crap and oh well the rabbit ears still work.... |
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