Young people who move to an apartment or get a house for the first time don’t subscribe to any MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) and they just… get their network programming from Hulu and they get Netflix… As an industry where people pay between $70 and $92 a month, that’s a lot of money to a young person today who is getting their first job when they can go out and watch Hulu for free and Netflix for $7.99. So it’s a threat

Charlie Ergen’s quote via The children are our future, and they’re not paying for TV — Online Video News

Nice to finally see a CEO of a pay tv network calling a spade a spade 

Source: gigaom.com

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    Ergen 「子供たちは我々の未来を握っている。彼らはTVにお金を払わない。」 やっと本当のことを言う有料TVネットワークのCEOに会えたね。 Charlie
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