congrats anter, you are on the right track.
Hell i am not involved with hsp (xcept for Fla hurricane work)
No. the phone line is NOT about soft porn or whatever you might have ordered.
I will say it again.
NEILSON.
"Who determines the market areas in which a cable construct or satellite outfit to carry local stations and what the heck you watch"
Neilson.
"who determines what channels are most likely watched?"
Neilson.
15 years ago or more the outfit was called a "Neilson ratings program" upon which the liberal who thinks he is more right than others-would belong to a "free" panel of sheer volunteers that would let someone put a box in thier homes, monitoring what was watched the most from behind thier TV. Painless, right? The sore spot is that companies are PAID for this info and you, pal-are the victom.
"The Simpsons" or "Mash" didn't hit chart #1 because people were calling thier local stations and stating how much they liked these shows. They just watched it because it was there. There is no one taking polls and asking randomly if you like th X-files more than "Gidgett does Dallas".
Second of all, when you touch ma bells wires and tie in-they will not warranty what was in place. Take it from an ex phone guy.
Phone guys will NOT wallfische, OR even take thier boots off due to O.S.H.A. regulations. They give ya a 9 to 5 appointment and an 'Im sorry" if they miss it. "They wont be fired, they work for a real company."
Third and last-
MOST of DTV work was and has ever been done was by smaller contractors who STARTED DTV before de-regulation and during-not HSP's,(who, by the way were created to deconstruct independants) people like me. and the Satellite Gurus don't give a tinkers damn if you don;t want to run phone-they will find someone else. considering taking thinkers out 1st is just a pen dot on a page.
Phone companies will soon be running digital television and my advice is ya better learn VIOP and run the hell away from the satelite wars.
Good luck man, "re-think DirecTV" like the ad says......"Re-think your future befoer everyone else and thier dog goes there cause satellite bites rocks"
JG