John Mac's Travels

This week DIRECTV's CEO Bill Morrow announced our 2023 Success Performance results . Overall I think we did pretty well, but there was one area where the results were quite frankly, lackluster. That area was retaining and adding subscribers.  No one should have been shocked by the numbers that were released. We know all know that the marketplace has gone through monumental change the last eight or so years.  The numbers are down across all providers including Cable, DBS, streaming, etc.   DIRECTV has been working hard to stem the receding tide of customers leaving the platform. Our new Gemini device  is a market game changer.  Advancements in cloud technology and our engineering team's work to migrate our systems to the cloud are reaping financial benefits to help us sustain growth in a cost effective manner. As an Engineer in our Technical operations group, I see these advancements real time and first hand, and I am so proud of our teams for the...

Well, I have saddled up, back on the horse, back on the trail, back to work, choose your analogy, I am there.  It was a great 3+ weeks at home, and I sure did NOT miss driving 20hrs a week. I watched some epic football over the break and got a ton of time with my Gemini set top box. I was also able to use ScoreGuide  so I could track the scores of all the simultaneous games at once.  ScoreGuide is the BOMB!!! Love it... The only real issue that I have with ScoreGuide is not all of our cummerical customers have the option available to them.  We do have partners and customers still utilizing old and outdated technology that does not have the capability of showing ScoreGuide. This week I was able to watch the College Football National championship on ESPN and McCormick and Schmick's in Cincinnati.  Much love to the Landry's Company, who are a dedicated DIRECTV customer and always treat me and all of their customers so well. Thursday night I was able to catch the...