Retailer Charlie Chat Transcript Courtesty of Dishretailer.com

Retailer Charlie Chat Transcript
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Tuesday November 23rd, 1999

Welcome to another fun filled, action packed Charlie Chat. Stay tuned for the latest news and information from Wahsington with your hosts Jim Defranco and Charlie Ergen

Wake Up Charlie, its time for the Chat. Remember, you snooze you loose!

Well here we go, it looks like we are ready to get staterd with this weeks chat. Charlie looks nice and relaxed but it seems that Jim cant wait to get started.

Gee, this chat is different. Usually charlie takes half the show telling everyone to contact their congressmen and senators. He doesnt seem like he is too happy, but atleast he started out by telling all of us how great locals are and how they are going to change the satellite industry. Heres some of the highlights of the new legislation........

1. 90 Day cable rule now eliminated, so you we will no longer have to lie to the customer service repersentive when we activate network signals.

2. Local Channels will now be available on Showroom Subscriptions, and on commercial accounts/

3. Copyright fees went down on the superstations

4. Must carry will take effect January 1st, 2002

5. 6 month retransmission rule. Dish can offer locals now, without consent, but have 6 months to reach an agreement.

6. No change in the current Grade B standard

7. Grandfather all existing Grade B subs for a period of 5 years

8. Rv owners and truck drivers can now recieve distant network signals as long as the dish is not permintly attatched to a structure. Must show proof to qualify

All 13 cities that Dish currently offers local local in will be a Dish500 solution, except Boston. Please note that New York and La will stay at 119. Yes, Bob Haller you will be seeing Pitsburgh on 110. Im not kidding this time.

This is a list of the furure cities that Dish will be providing local service to. Cities in Gold are already up and cities in white are the ones that are proposed. Hey, I see Detroit is Finally Listed. YEA!

"Nobody does more locals than Dish"

Thats right, if the nice folks from DirecTv are reading, Charlie just said that nobody does more locals than Dish. Ya better watch out.

Anyways, Charlie announced that we will have 20 local to local cities by the end of the year and 50 cities by the end of the first quarter which will be approxamatly 70 percent of the country. If you look at this map, I believe charlie said they would be serving all the regions in yellow.

The following slides are an explanation of what the new law means on Distant Network signals

This slide means your out of luck,
Charlie says you better goto Rat Shack and get a good antenna!

This slide means that your one of those luckey people like Bob Haller who can get locals,
Charlie says get a Dish500!

This slide means that Charlie isn't doing your locals either,
Charlie says get a Dish500!

This means that you can get alot of distant signals,
Charlie Says get a Dish500, a Dish300 and an Sw64!

This is a closeup view of the Local DMA for Denver, I think charlie said if you lived in the white area you can get 2 distant signals plus Denver for a total of 3.

Now Jim Defranco is going to talk about signal Tests. Jim is Smiling because Charlie told us to buy this expensive testing equiptment and now it isnt any good.

This is just the slide enforcing the fact our fancey signal meters are no longer good. Good thing I didnt waste my money

Now Jim and Charlie are going to talk about the Advertising that starts next week.

Preety snappy aint it? If you goto the retailer website, you can download serveral different versions of this ad if your Charlie decided that they are doing local in your city.

This is Dishes plan for local to local, Where is Detroit?

Technical Difficulties, I bet its those Dirty Rats at DirecTv messing with the signal because they are jellous that charlie is going to offer more locals than they can ever imagine.

Bill from Dish Hawahi (Hope I spelled it right) Called and asked about distant network signals. I guess the Director thought it would be cool to show a tiny little picture of Hawahi.

Good old Mike Dugan comes to save the day. I forget what he said, because I can't read my notes, but I thought this picture looked good. If you look to the right you can see half of Mary Davidson who is head of Retail Services.

Charlie looks a little Blue here, because he had to break the bad news to our friend Bill that there will be no core services offered at 110 any time soon. In case you where wondering, Bill uses a 36inch dish to pick up 110 and I believe a 6 or an 8 foot dish to pick up 119.

Jim Defranco also mentions that the price on the 3822 will drop in price from $249 to $199 effective Monday November, 29th

Programming Announcements!

I just wanted to get everyone excited, eventhough Charlie didnt mention what channels would be added, heres a good ideaof what will be at 110.

As you all know, Team Summit will be at the end of Febuary. A little early this year, but charlie said its going to be very exciting with lots of good news and products.

The Next Charli Chat is December 6th. Remember this is the Retailer Chat, the consumer chat will be in the evening at 8pm. BTW, this chat will be an interactive chat if we have a Dishplayer.

These are just the re-broadcast Dates, if you missed this chat and want to see it for yourselfe. I dont know what good it does to show the chat Thursday since its ThanksGiving and we'll all be at our homes. Remember we can only get the chat on our showroom recievers which are at our shops.

This transcript was written by Claude Greiner. If you have any questions or corrections concerning this Un-official transcript, please send us an E-mail at CharlieChat@Dishretailer.com

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