Newsmax as default channel on DTV
Sep 19, 2014, 10:48 am
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Sep 19, 2014, 11:07 am
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Sep 19, 2014, 11:18 am
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More likely DTV sold this right. UA does not own or lease the DTV system.
Sep 19, 2014, 11:25 am
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Sep 19, 2014, 11:33 am
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It is commonly reported the DTV receives all the revenues (and in exchange provides the system at no cost to UA). Suspect UA has the right also to place their ads, but if true DTV receives all the revenue, then the default channel would seem to be a DTV action.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Sep 19, 2014 at 1:00 pm Reason: cost, not "cot"
Sep 19, 2014, 11:53 am
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What I find most amazing is how the vast majority of pax never ask how to turn it off, even in red-eye flights where it is most annoying. People nowadays on aircraft seem to have become zombies who never question what is happening no matter how miserable it gets. It's as if the airlines have beaten us down to the point that "as long as the plane doesn't crash into a firey ball of flame", then it was a good flight.
Civilization has not yet collapsed because of this, much to my surprise.
Nov 3, 2014, 4:49 pm
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Wake me up when CNN is off airport networks and then maybe I'll sympathize
Wake me up when CNN is off airport networks and then maybe I'll sympathize
Nov 3, 2014, 6:22 pm
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Nov 3, 2014, 6:26 pm
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Nov 3, 2014, 7:27 pm
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I have flown 6 domestic segments with DTV in the last two weeks, and the only default channels that I saw were CNBC and the movie marketing channel, trying to get you to buy a movie.
I don't buy that this is systemic.
I don't buy that this is systemic.
Last edited by zombietooth; Nov 3, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Nov 3, 2014, 8:38 pm
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I've seen it on every flight I've been on. It's newsmax in first, ESPN in coach
Nov 26, 2014, 1:08 pm
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I was surprised newsmax was the default channel. I was in F, so I don't know what it was in coach.
My first thought was that UA found another way to make a chunk of money. They must charge a fortune for the privilege of being default.
IMHO, the station guide should be default.
My first thought was that UA found another way to make a chunk of money. They must charge a fortune for the privilege of being default.
IMHO, the station guide should be default.