The simple short story is we play telephone by the telephone rules. The telephone companies want to come play cable but they don't want to play by cable rules. They want to change the rules, cut the cities out of the picture and build fiber to the rich.
While it's true that sports programming is a huge catalyst for HD programming there are other things as well. And certainly you get a wide variety of sports programming on ESPN HD.
Not only will it not change, it should not change. Our customers should not be charged for something that anyone else could receive free. And it would be penalizing (other stations) if we were to capitulate to the squeaky wheel.
We think it's unfortunate and we certainly hope that something can be worked out.
I hadn't thought of that but I'm certain we will do customer outreach to help people understand that. Don't take this wrong but we're not even to Feb. 17 of 2006 and a year is a lifetime in our industry, so 2009 is not even on our radar screen yet.
We could see some incremental benefit, but I don't think we are looking to incorporate that into our business plan.
