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| reply to Ray422
Re: No happy medium
Well, you are always going to get the extremely out of whack CEO salaries. Tell me any publicly traded company not like this. And there are plenty of costs involved with simply everyday operation from customer service rep pay, plant maintenance, gas for trucks to do truck rolls, the list goes on. It's a vicious cycle of transfer of money between customers, employees, the content providers, etc.. While I am not denying that some cable rate raises are simply for increased profits for the cable co, it is certainly not always the case and this specific time is a perfect example.
Disregarding any complaints about rate increases as Karl likes to eagerly point out (and I should add was completely brought on by Viacom in this case considering the exorbitant increase they were originally asking for), Time Warner did the best damage control they were capable of and took a middle-of-the-road position here to appease everyone involved.
But really, this happens all the time. Just it's not as heavily publicised as this. The only time this came about is because Viacom decided to pull the 'dumb viewer' card and put TW in a bad light by plastering messages on all their channels acting as if it was all TW's fault for the channels disappearing.
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz |
