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- From: kevink@fugitive.soac.bellcore.com (Kevin Klinge)
- Subject: Re: PPV Olympics: Oh, so now it's free
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 15:15:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.144313.7272@news.acns.nwu.edu>, staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers) writes:
- |> Anyway, did you pay $125 for the Triplecast?
-
- Ahhh, no.
-
- |> If so, what do you think about
- |> the fact that, if I was really interested, I can watch it for free tonight
- |> and tomorrow? NBC, in order to lure more suckers, I mean viewers, to pay
- |> the $29.95 daily coverage, will be offering cable viewers 14 hours of
- |> PPV Olympics for free.
- |>
- |> Using a split screen with 4 quadrants, NBC will again invade another cable
- |> channel (at what point do I start getting a pro-rated refund...I am getting
- |> Olympic coverage on FOUR channels already, and now they want to add a FIFTH
- |> channel) to show PPV Olympics. From 6-10pm ET Thursday and Friday, and
- |> 1-4am ET Friday and Saturday, you can tune into CNBC and see all 3 channels.
- |> Obviously not intended for screens 14 inches and under.
-
- And since there is no sound for these split screens, I doubt even more I'll
- be watching it. Why bother if you can't hear what's going on (at least the
- info you NEED to hear to follow the events). Of course there are some
- announcers' fluff I could do without; Mr. Bud "Bagel fetish" Carson. And if
- I was to hear one more time last night that Mark Lenzi's father was upset
- because he left wrestling every time the camera showed him in the stands
- (mentioned at least 20 times in the past three days), I was going to puke!
-
- |> I hope cable executives are paying attention this month. First, the FCC
- |> grants the baby bells permission to deliver video to the home. Finally,
- |> competition. Then the House passes new cable re-regulation laws so that
- |> these monopolies will stop gouging us (but will it take effect before
- |> Cablevision can pass on their stupid loss to me?). And then finally
- |> America has spoken about the future of paying per every view...we don't
- |> really want it, and we really can't afford it.
-
- Couldn't agree with you more on all three points you make above.
-
- BTW, if I switched over the Triplecast, I'd be missing all those Seinfeld
- Olympic Moments. Not worth it at all, IMO...
-
- --
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- Kevin H. Klinge
- Bell Communications Research
- kevink@soac.bellcore.com
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