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Remember that Ergen stated this week that, if the FCC implements their proposed limits on the amount of wireless spectrum Dish is allowed to use, it will mean that the process of starting a mobile service will take "years" (in his words) to get off the ground. Even if they're willing to spend years and years establishing a presence in the mobile industry, are they going to be willing to spend years and years losing money every quarter through operating Blockbuster stores? Or will they, at some point, realize that it would be just as cheap and effective to just close the stores and negotiate totally new leases in 3-5 years when they're actually ready to utilize a brick-and-mortar presence? |
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I am sure you can find a quote or two from Charlie saying they would never carry AMC again unless they could agree on terms to carry only the channels that Dish customers wanted (basically just AMC) and they would not be forced into a package deal making them carry the less desired channels. Not only did they pick back up all of AMC's channels but they now offer Fuse. Fuse's executive chairman just happens to be the son of the chairman of both AMC and Cablevision. Ironic huh?! There is a lot we all don't know. Not everything is public, even in a publicly traded company. Does the $10/month revenue for Blockbuster @ Home factor in to Dish's income or Blockbuster's? I know it is paid directly to Dish but does accounting reflect that as Blockbuster income? If not, that could virtually wash out Blockbuster's reported losses. Does Dish pay Blockbuster for the Dish subscribers created in store the same as they pay all other retailers of Dish? Are the expenses of in store marketing, equipment and other Dish related tools billed as an expense to Dish or Blockbuster? Don't get me wrong. The stores are still in dire straits. They desperately need another source of signifcant revenue to be a viable long term business. The bottom line is this. We can all be like Kaw who just keeps predicting the same thing day after day, year after year, decade after decade until we are actually right and then say I told you so (which still hasn't completely happend for him), or we can wait and see. I just poke my head in now and then to point out the other sides. The truth is we really don't know whether Blockbuster stores will be around a year from now or if they will still be going strong in some capacity 10 years from now. The only thing I can safely say is that Charlie Egren is an incredibly smart business man. If and when the time comes he feels he has no use for the Blockbuster brick and mortar stores, he will cut them loose. |
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No, it's called competition, and capitalism....which could be the same as greed....
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and a few months later....PICKLES!
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I just thought of something funny Enron had a poker face look what happened to thrm
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