{"id":702,"date":"2011-03-06T21:49:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=702"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:24","slug":"drecktv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/drecktv\/","title":{"rendered":"Write-A-ChecTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest price increase, I am now paying $100\/month for service from DirecTV\u2122.\u00a0 DirecTV is my only option here in the mountains if I want to watch more than one channel.\u00a0 Since DirecTV does not offer a la carte service, I have to pay $60\/month for a package with more shopping and infomercial channels than actual content, $6\/month for each TV, plus extra charges for HD and DVR.\u00a0 I intend to cut back on services, and the thought has entered my mind of cutting the cord completely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/\">Daily Show<\/a> or no.<\/p>\n<p>This I find odd: In the past year, DirecTV reported revenue of $26 billion but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?client=ob&amp;q=NASDAQ:DTV\">profits of only $1.97 billion<\/a>.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/investor.directv.com\/\">their website<\/a>, they have 28 million subscribers in the US and South America.\u00a0 This works out to $943 annual income per subscriber, from which they make $70 profit.\u00a0 That&#8217;s it.\u00a0 You pay through the nose and DirecTV makes $70.\u00a0 Someone, if not DirecTV, is making a pile of money on a product of overstated value.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the pile will be a little smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest price increase, I am now paying $100\/month for service from DirecTV\u2122.\u00a0 DirecTV is my only option here in the mountains if I want to watch more than one channel.\u00a0 Since DirecTV does not offer a la carte &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/drecktv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}