Cable Passes Satellite as Leading Digital Pay-TV Platform During 2008
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Here's the score at the end of 2008, in terms of paying digital subscribers:
Cable - 130 million
DTH - 119 million
In Robert Klein's list, rolling out new services is one of the marketing goals of cable system operators.
The economics of rolling out new services becomes practical when those new services can be monetized. Honestly, on an analogue cable system, the best you can do is to offer all channels and trap some of them to offer lower priced (read: lower value) packages. No bouquet bundling of channels. No internet. No data. No telephony. No VOD.
What is sad, in spite of advances in cable television services, most systems here at home have remained analogue. Much worse, with the dawning of digital terrestrial television, local cable operators are fostering this fear that DTT will make cable obsolete, thus upgrading will be a losing gamble. That is simply preposterous, or at least ignorant: DTT has smaller coverage than analogue, making cable systems more important for provincial areas.
The problem, really, is that cable operators have not planned for growth in the magnitude that would allow them to build capacities and, therefore, revenues.
Reality check: Huge growth requires huge resources. If cable systems remain small and isolated, MSOs will simply crawl into their areas and buy them out or crush them. As the IMS Research is seeing in China and the other developing countries, protectionist "brakes" will not stop technological determinist "accelerators".
The key is consolidation, if small cable operators wish to survive.
And if these troubles
Should vanish like rain on midday,
Well I've no doubt there'll be more.
And we can't run and we can't cheat,
'Cause babe when we meet
What we're afraid of,
We find out what we're made of.
-Everything But The Girl
July 17, 2009
July 13, 2009
Walk Like A Man
In John chapter 5, Jesus healed a man who had been ill for 38 years and had waited at the Bethesda pools for a miracle that was based on superstition.
The name Bethesda is said to be Aramaic for House of Mercy or House of Grace, which was appropriate: the Bethesda pools, which had been known to be there since 8th century B.C. was said to be stirred by an angel at an unannounced time, and the first to get in would be healed of their sickness and disabilities.
Bethesda fell into ruins after Saladin gained control of Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Fortunately, the healing pools were re-discovered in 1964. These days, anyone can go and walk the same place where Jesus walked and healed that man.
While in Paris, I was very excited to see the staircase where then-Capt. Dick Winters walked up from the river to emerge by the Notre Dame, that I had to go down there myself to take the shot at an angle that he would probably have had.
Of course, that scene in my mind was just a depiction in the HBO production of Band of Brothers (episode 5, directed by Tom Hanks), but the novelty of it was just too attractive.
If Notre Dame was special, how much more Bethesda, where Jesus himself walked and performed the miracle by which He declared Himself equal to God.
To the man who accepted healing, Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
Walk like a man
Talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
(Written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe, Walk Like A Man featured Nick Massi's bass voice and Franki Valli's falsetto. It put The Four Seasons on number 1 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 2, 1963.)
The name Bethesda is said to be Aramaic for House of Mercy or House of Grace, which was appropriate: the Bethesda pools, which had been known to be there since 8th century B.C. was said to be stirred by an angel at an unannounced time, and the first to get in would be healed of their sickness and disabilities.
Bethesda fell into ruins after Saladin gained control of Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Fortunately, the healing pools were re-discovered in 1964. These days, anyone can go and walk the same place where Jesus walked and healed that man.
While in Paris, I was very excited to see the staircase where then-Capt. Dick Winters walked up from the river to emerge by the Notre Dame, that I had to go down there myself to take the shot at an angle that he would probably have had.
Of course, that scene in my mind was just a depiction in the HBO production of Band of Brothers (episode 5, directed by Tom Hanks), but the novelty of it was just too attractive.
If Notre Dame was special, how much more Bethesda, where Jesus himself walked and performed the miracle by which He declared Himself equal to God.
To the man who accepted healing, Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
Walk like a man
Talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
(Written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe, Walk Like A Man featured Nick Massi's bass voice and Franki Valli's falsetto. It put The Four Seasons on number 1 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 2, 1963.)
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