DISH Network/DirecTV Merger?

EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?
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EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?
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Don't really care since I don't know what it would mean.

"Bill R" wrote in message
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EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?
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" Such a merger would raise significant antitrust hurdles "

That must be the understatement of the decade, so far.

In the food world, the equivalent would be McDonald's buys:

(Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Jack in the Box, A&W, Long
John Silver's, Hardee's and Carl's Jr)

-Dave

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"Bill R" wrote in message
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EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?
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Don't really care since I don't know what it would mean.

OK, I'll simplify it. The average dbs bill would increase from ~50 to ~100
per month.

I used to be a Dish customer. I'm currently a DirecTV customer. Neither
service is better or worse, so choose based on who offers the best deal on
the programming you want to watch. Right NOW, it's possible to get dbs
service for a reasonable price. After the merger, dbs prices would rise
considerably. Right now, the dbs services are competing against each other
and cable. If they weren't competing against each other, there would be no
incentive to keep prices low, as most cable prices are considerably higher,
for similar programming. That is, after the merger, they would still be
"competitive", even if the basic package prices increased almost 100%. And
you can bet that they will. -Dave

It's speculation to raise there stock prices and sell them...
Basicly it won't happen and this is just a rumor...
I want to see facts, not speculations...

G wrote:

It's speculation to raise there stock prices and sell them...
Basicly it won't happen and this is just a rumor...
I want to see facts, not speculations...


I don't think that it was done to raise stock prices or I would not have
posted it. By the way, if you read any of the Satellite forums you will
see that this is being discussed on all of them. There may be something
to it. The satellite companies HAVE to do something within the next few
years or they are dead.

And as far as cross posting (if that is a complaint) I thought that it
would be an interesting discussion for both DISH and DirecTV customers.
Its summer and these newsgroups are getting few posts. I though that
this would liven things up a bit.
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Bill R.

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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:19:19 -0400, "Mike T." wrote:


"Gary H" wrote in message
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"Bill R" wrote in message
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EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?
--

Don't really care since I don't know what it would mean.

OK, I'll simplify it. The average dbs bill would increase from ~50 to ~100
per month.

I used to be a Dish customer. I'm currently a DirecTV customer. Neither
service is better or worse, so choose based on who offers the best deal on
the programming you want to watch. Right NOW, it's possible to get dbs
service for a reasonable price. After the merger, dbs prices would rise
considerably. Right now, the dbs services are competing against each other
and cable. If they weren't competing against each other, there would be no
incentive to keep prices low, as most cable prices are considerably higher,
for similar programming. That is, after the merger, they would still be
"competitive", even if the basic package prices increased almost 100%. And
you can bet that they will. -Dave


That (price increases) may be the only significant effect on
customers.
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contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

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"Bill R" wrote in message
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EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?
--

Don't really care since I don't know what it would mean.

Big price increases ==IF == it ever happened.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:48:32 -0400, Bill R
wrote:

EchoStar buyout weighed -- DirecTV merger seen
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4063441

How do you DISH Network and DirecTV subscribers feel about this?

Didn't DISH try to buy DirectTV a couple of years ago and was shot
down as being anticompetitive? I certainly expect to see the same
ruling the other way too.

I don't think that it was done to raise stock prices or I would not have
posted it. By the way, if you read any of the Satellite forums you will
see that this is being discussed on all of them. There may be something to
it. The satellite companies HAVE to do something within the next few
years or they are dead.

Why do you say that? Cable is a long way (decades, minimum) from even
trying to kill dbs. So what is on the horizon that is the supposed dbs
killer, if the companies don't do something? -Dave