As the economy declined funding to hotel technology companies (which Lodgenet is) started to dry up; they once were willing to provide the hotel new TV's for all of their rooms so long as they could keep 90% of the revenue their system provided....this model has become extremely difficult for them recently....and as a result more and more operators have started to turn to cable companies to directly provide service (and the brands have started to waive the requirements for services such as those provided by On-Command)