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Looks like the consumer C-Band business will be dead and gone by the end of this year. After hearing from several retailers about rumors that Motorola would cease its authorization stream, we started making inquires. No response from Motorola but Mike Monfort of National Programming Service (NPS) confirms that the demise is likely.
"We had a conference call in late December when Motorola talked about discontinuing the authorization stream on April 15th," Monfort says. After some protests and concerted lobbying, the giant manufacturer boosted prices by 20%, agreed to continue service until the end of the year and said they will then decide the future.
Motorola will almost certainly discontinue the service, Monfort says, so his National Programming Service (NPS) has ceased selling annual subscriptions. That's bad news for many retailers and C-Band's current 22,606 subscribers. "The people who are left love their C-Band," Monfort says. But Motorola apparently finds the business inconvenient ... and so an era is coming to an end.•
Posted : February 8, 2010 11:31 am
what is a c-band
Posted : February 8, 2010 6:44 pm
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C band is a freq. band. They work off lower satellites that usually require motorized LARGE wire mesh dishes.
You still see them around but few and far between these days.
Just an FYI for those that might still have one.
Posted : February 8, 2010 8:30 pm
I'm not a subscriber anymore, I do have 2 C-Band dishes and watch FTA.
Posted : February 8, 2010 10:35 pm
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More C-Band Going Dark
Another round of programming is going dark for C-Band systems, according to a note sent to dealers from National Programming Service. Effective June 20, all Showtime channels (including 16 flavors of Showtime, four Movie Channel versions and Flix East and West) will turn off. May 1 will see Blue Highways TV leave the big dish and earlier this week WGCL (CBS), WSB (ABC), WXIA (NBC), WPIX, Cartoon Network, Spike TV, VH-1, TRUTV, TNT and CMT left the service.
NPS repeats its opinion that Motorola will cut the cord completely on C-Band subscribers by the end of this year.•
Posted : April 13, 2010 6:26 pm