Essays Tagged: "DirecTV"

Satelite industry and international trade.

t of our daily lives. We see and recognize their use in weather reports, television transmission by DIRECTV and the DISH Network, and everyday telephone calls.From over eight thousand atificial object ... agreement with Hughes in 1991, leading to the launch of Hughes' DBS 1 satellite and the start-up of DirecTV/ USSB in June 1994. In May 1999, Hughes acquired USSB's assets and business in a transaction ...

(15 pages) 207 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Compare and Contrast of Cable TV vs. satellite TV.

To accommodate increased HDTV programming, Dish Network has expanded their bandwidth capabilities. DIRECTV will soon be able to offer over 1500 HDTV channels.At the present time DVR is also available ... vailable from most cable providers. Parental controls are also available from both Dish Network and DIRECTV. High-speed cable internet is as much as 50 times faster than dial-up. Most cable companies ...

(3 pages) 96 0 3.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Case Study: Blockbuster Entertainment

o operates Blockbuster Online and has marketing partnerships with companies such as Time Warner and DIRECTV. At one point entertainment giant Viacom (now CBS Corp.) owned about 80% of Blockbuster (96% ...

(3 pages) 188 1 4.7 Feb/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Tivo

s a partner. They want TiVo to establish well in the market before Microsoft enters the market with DirecTV, as it is a web based service provider and would hamper the business for cable operators by ... of using cable network.Competition Analysis:The existing and emerging competition includes mainly: DirecTV, Replay Networks, Jovio and Seagate-Thomson JV. Of these, only Replay Networks is currently ...

(11 pages) 143 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Economics of Satellite Dish Providers

is much less than the satisfaction gained from the first to second additional channel. For example, DirecTV has a basic package which they call Total Choice. This package includes 135 channels. One of ... includes 135 channels. One of their premium packages, Total Choice Premier, includes 215 channels (DirecTV 2005). The utility of each additional channel is diminished because the consumer can only wa ...

(12 pages) 123 0 5.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

JetBlue Value Chain

Layout and design of planes and reduced seating capacity to increase customers' legroom and comfort.DIRECTV satellite television. A television at each seat (24 channels controlled at the hands of each ...

(1 pages) 132 0 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

News Corp. Business Case analysis

ompany and the other option is a satellite distribution network. The recent decision to not acquire Directv was a good idea. Directv has experienced operating losses over the past several years and ev ... xperienced operating losses over the past several years and even if News Corp were able to increase Directv's Operating Margin to that of BSkyB's (3.67%) it would take them 8 1/5 years (using the 2001 ...

(3 pages) 142 0 2.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Drugs In Sport

g non-football programming on outlets such as MTV. The PSAs are also airing on NFL SUNDAY TICKET on DIRECTV, the first time the Media Campaign has reached out to youth and adults with anti-drug messag ...

(16 pages) 61 0 4.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Kazaa Case Study

work reaping millions of dollars of revenue from mainstream clients such as Microsoft, NetFlix, and DirecTV. Also, the music available on Kazaa functions as a draw to a huge internet audience.Earnings ...

(4 pages) 16 0 5.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

TiVo in 2005

(6 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Racional

tuación planteamos la bajada "La verdadera definición de tus gustos". De esta manera, Directv se presenta como la solución, con el beneficio del sistema HD, llegando así a ... tuación planteamos la bajada "La verdadera definición de tus gustos". De esta manera, Directv se presenta como la solución, con el beneficio del sistema HD, llegando así a ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 May/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

TiVo Case

onal opportunity to earn revenue. TiVo remained on top when in came to DVRs until its partners like DirecTV decided to develop its own DVR device and gave it as a "freebie" for its cable subscribers. ... grounds and companies 7. TiVo's current 4.4 million subscribers have mostly come from its deal with DirecTV1. To develop new and advanced products that could give them competitive advantage over th ...

(6 pages) 1 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

internal and external factors

amount associated with the efficiency of an activity. Using AT&T as example, their purchase of DIRECTV was one that was methodically planned, as it will definitely improve the value of the servic ... to coordinating resources to, again, maximize goal achievement. AT&T is using this merger with DIRECTV as an organized attempt to seize the maximum number of clients who subscribe to their servic ...

(4 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers