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brandon11983 · 09-08-2004, 10:45 AM

DDDDave: what my statement was trying to show is that people don't realize how much particular channels cost. The mentality I ran into the most when I was in the satellite business is people thinking that

number of channels / price per month = price per channel

We obviously know this is not true. If consumers were given the option of picking their programming, they would first assume that they could get a significantly lower bill per month. As your little mock up showed, this will not be the case. The closest thing I have ever seen to this is with big dish satellite systems, in which they let you get as close to "picking and choosing" as you will get. But then again, they are down to less than 800,000 customers nationwide, probably because the programming is so cheap...

09-08-2004, 10:45 AM	#20 (permalink)
brandon11983 Stereophonic Location: Chitown!!	DDDDave: what my statement was trying to show is that people don't realize how much particular channels cost. The mentality I ran into the most when I was in the satellite business is people thinking that number of channels / price per month = price per channel We obviously know this is not true. If consumers were given the option of picking their programming, they would first assume that they could get a significantly lower bill per month. As your little mock up showed, this will not be the case. The closest thing I have ever seen to this is with big dish satellite systems, in which they let you get as close to "picking and choosing" as you will get. But then again, they are down to less than 800,000 customers nationwide, probably because the programming is so cheap... __________________ Well behaved women rarely make history.