Cable and DTH providers wanted last month’s BDU and specialty hearing to focus on their customers, and in a way they got their wish; over the 12-day hearing the word ‘customer’ was heard 601 times. Mathematically speaking, that makes customers as a hot-button topic more than twice as important as ‘fee for carriage,’ and 18 times hotter than ‘Desperate Housewives.’

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