Juan's return means another switchable who knows Buzz's system, someone with BEast experience, someone who is probably going to come off the bench this year instead of playing the first few minutes but who can give us valuable minutes nevertheless, but more to the point.....someone whose skill set is such that if we had gotten a transfer who could immediately play (like Trent) to replace Juan, and his skill set was as good as Juan's, this Board would have been ecstatic.

Glad you're back Juan.

Kevin Durant just donated 1 million to Red Cross and the Thunder matched it.  That is a class act there. 

We have a call center in Moore, Oklahoma.  Everyone survived, no injuries there though plenty of damage outside.  However, one of our agents has a child missing and about 20 lost their homes.

Tragic.

Keep folks in your prayers if you don't mind. 

The irony is if we were to charge you the true local sports cost in your area you would really scream.  We are charging $2 or $3 when some RSN costs in some DMAs is north of 6X higher.

Take a DMA like New York with YES, SNY, MSG, MSG+....all RSNs, all carrying a different pro team and all charging a ton of money to a distributor.  Los Angeles very similar.  What happens when a distributor doesn't carry that content....fans leave and go somewhere else that has it.  Tough spot to be in which is why we have requested to only offer those sports services to customers that actually watch sports.  You can imagine what the teams said. 

Wow.

Dodds is wildly inconsistent on how he moderates his message board?  Ya don't say....

Yup, but producing fries and producing television shows are a lot different.  Producing almost anything compared to a television show or movie is wildly different, thus the different economic principles in play.

Look, I realize you don't like it.  I know you want to take a few swipes at me, that's fine.  I'm just trying to give you the realities of the situation having been in this business on multiple sides of the fence (from the Television and Radio Exec Producer for MU, or working those gigs for the Angels and Ducks, to being on the distributor side and working with these studios and content providers for more than a decade).  Changes will continue to happen on the margins, but you have to find a way for them to be able to monetize their risk.  You can say that's my INFINITE WISDOM or whatever crack you made, or you can go to any of the highly educated sources I have given to you or read others at the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Multichannel News, sports executive commentary, etc, etc.  Don't take my word for it.

I know Apple and HBO are going to do a deal for example, but I also know it will be through authentication which means you have to be a television subscriber.  The technology is there, it's the revenue streams that they are guaranteed by the distributors that cannot be supplanted at this time which is why it is in this current model.  If the media companies could get the same billions directly from consumers, they would do it.  Some day they likely will.

He's an American patriot, good guy, but there are things that all these guys and gals get into that they don't understand and the harmful effects or byproducts are what we are left with.  The destruction of the General Aviation industry in this country is totally at their feet.  There are so many others.

Don't forget about the Buzz impression he does.

I'm saying there are some industries that produce things that benefit some groups which could not survive without subsidization.  In this case, a number of tv channels serve some niche groups but not the masses.  Is it important for those channels to exist?  Today they do because everyone pays a little bit for them.  Take that away, they go away.  Now, whether that is a good thing or not, I don't know but I suspect a number of lawmakers will have their pet channels for certain constituencies that they don't want to see go.  We'll see how it shakes out.  On the sports side, like I've said...be careful what you wish for because the first entities to go bye bye forever will be those like Marquette.  Sports rights are doable today because 90% of folks are paying them even if only 30% or whatever watch.  If that becomes a la carte, only the cream of the crop will get any dollars of any magnitude. 

Disney is already doing it as is everyone else, but they are going to do it in a way that makes economic sense for them which includes development of product. This is where your argument that you keep going back to (and others) falls apart.  You want to make comparisons to buying a book to a tv show (let's see...one author writes a book and then you have printing \ publishing, distribution.  Now compare that to creating a tv show...writers, producers, director, actors, cameramen, technology folks, editing, distribution, etc).  It's a totally different animal.  They survive on successful series.  For every American Idol or 24 or 60 Minutes there are carcasses everywhere of failed programming.  It's a totally different animal and if they cannot monetize for the risks they are taking in content development, they won't do it.

I'm just happy to have Juan Back.  He's the best teammate on the bench and a great hustle guy. 

Apparently I missed the things the sconnie troll pointed out he can't rebound, score, or defend.