It's simple economics, unfortunately... Assumption 1:
It costs more to increase bandwidth than it would to annoy a subset of subscribers. Their contractual obligations probably prohibit limiting the sports coverage or the Stern coverage, or they figure the sports service limitation would be more likely to drive subscribers away than limiting C-SPAN. The good news is that satellite radio remains a "give away the cow, but sell the milk" business. Yes, we can gripe about our sunk investment, but the prices for the receivers themselves are still relatively small, and switching costs are small (unless one chose a longer-term subscription. C-SPAN remains on XM, if one can trust the website... Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA On 2/13/07, Jim Strader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just sent an email to Sirius and > asked why they can pay a billion > dollars to Howard yet drop C-SPAN > to make room for Sporting Events. > > It makes no sense. > > jim > _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
