...of Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2 or Setanta Sports 1 as well as HD versions of these channels or TV packages that contain these channels” and (b) “supply of television bundles containing Core Premium Movie channels”1. Part of Ofcom‟s analysis in support of these conclusions has involved consideration of changes over time in: (a) (b) (c) 3. charges for Sky‟s pay TV services; the quality of services provided by Sky to consumers; and the number of Sky subscribers. 2. In its inquiry Ofcom has put forward a view that Sky has continually raised charges for its pay TV services over time, reducing the value for money received by consumers, while at the same time increasing the number of its subscribers. Ofcom then infers from this assessment that Sky does not face effective competition at the retail level. Sky considers that the facts of the matter wholly contradict this assessment by Ofcom, and the inference that is drawn from it. Sky has already provided Ofcom with significant evidence collected by PwC, which shows that in relation to pay TV services UK consumers are well served compared to their European peers. Similarly, in its Response to Ofcom‟s Third Consultation Document, Sky demonstrated that Ofcom‟s proposition that examination of Sky‟s profitability shows that retail prices for pay TV services are excessive is without foundation.2 4. 1 Paragraph 4.410 of Ofcom‟s Third Consultation Document. Ofcom considers Sky Movies Action & Thriller, Sky Movies Comedy, Sky Movies...
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...In connection and individually, how has technology, fantasy sports and social media changed NFL fandom within 10 years? There have been so many advances in technology that the NFL has gained the largest potential through these advances capturing the largest media audience of the biggest three team sports in USA. Technology has helped spread the popularity of the sport by making it possible for the fans to enjoy things such as the NFL draft, fantasy football, and Madden NFL video games. Sky cams, radio transmitters in the helmet’s, and stats analysis online are just some of the few things that are taken for granted. Technology today doesn’t just help the fan see more and understand more about the game but it also helps the staff of the team. The computers, tablets, and ipads are so specialized and refined with stats about teams, players, and trends that you can see breakdowns of players in any given game situation. These stats are not just for fans but they are tool for the coaches as well. Technology has made a better viewing experience. For example, the invisible first down line on the TV and the score displayed at the bottom of the television screen. The amenities weren’t there but have made the experience better. The league has come a long way and has brought advanced technology along. Technology has affected the NFL just as it has in other aspects of our lives through the internet. TV networks now offer so many different programs that you can watch at a click...
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...Study & Analyzing Customer Buying Behavior in the changing DTH Environment Dish TV India Pvt. Ltd. Submitted by Tamal Kundu Academic year 2012-14 2012163 NIILM CMS Mentored by Prof. Ritu Srivastava NIILM CMS Greater Noida Certificate of Completion from Faculty Guide This is to certify that Summer Project Report on “Study and Analyze the consumer buying behavior in the fast changing DTH environment” prepared by Tamal Kundu Roll No. 2012163 of PGDM 2012-14 Batch is his genuine effort under my guidance and supervision. Signatures of mentor Signature of Student Mentor: Prof. Ritu Srivastava Name of Student: Tamal Kundu 2 DECLARATION I Tamal Kundu, a student of NIILM-CMS hereby declare that I completed my Summer Project titled, “Studying & analyzing the customer buying behavior in the fastest changing DTH environment” in the duration of six weeks i.e., from 20th April 2013 to 31st May 2013 under the able guidance of Mr. Mukesh Chaudhury & Mr.Gautam Sinha. The information presented here is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. Name: TAMAL KUNDU 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my heartiest thanks and appreciation to all those who were associated with my summer project which enhanced my knowledge and understanding of the corporate world greatly. First of all I would like to thank our president Dr. S. Neelamegham (NIILM-CMS) for giving us an opportunity of having this corporate exposure for 6 weeks. I would also like to...
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...The Low-Fare Revolution in the Sky Introduction Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines was originally incorporated to serve three cities in Texas as Air Southwest on March 15, 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. It is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, with its largest focus city at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31, 2007) also the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. As of July 12, 2008, Southwest operates approximately 3,500 flights daily. Indian Aviation: Air Deccan, the first low cost airline of India was founded by Captain G. R. Gopinath and its first flight was launched on 23 August 2003 from Bangalore to Hubli. Air Deccan is a business unit of Deccan Aviation, India’s largest private helicopter charter company, which pioneered helicopter tourism in India. Air Deccan is India’s first low cost, no frill airline, which was launched on strength of simple dream that every Indian to fly atleast once in his/her lifetime. In October 2007, Air Deccan as a planned makeover after the acquisition was renamed as Deccan with is tagline "The Choice is Simple" based on its previous famous tag line 'Simplifly'. The old logo of hands has been replaced by the Kingfisher logo and the font of Kingfisher is also being used. Strategy for Success Southwest Airline: ...
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...Diffusion of Innovation Products tend to go through a life cycle. Initially, a product is introduced. Since the product is not well known and is usually expensive (e.g., as microwave ovens were in the late 1970s), sales are usually limited. Eventually, however, many products reach a growth phase—sales increase dramatically. More firms enter with their models of the product. Frequently, unfortunately, the product will reach a maturity stage where little growth will be seen. For example, in the United States, almost every household has at least one color TV set. Some products may also reach a decline stage, usually because the product category is being replaced by something better. For example, typewriters experienced declining sales as more consumers switched to computers or other word processing equipment. The product life cycle is tied to the phenomenon of diffusion of innovation. When a new product comes out, it is likely to first be adopted by consumers who are more innovative than others—they are willing to pay a premium price for the new product and take a risk on unproven technology. It is important to be on the good side of innovators since many other later adopters will tend to rely for advice on the innovators who are thought to be more knowledgeable about new products for advice. At later phases of the PLC, the firm may need to modify its market strategy. For example, facing a saturated market for baking soda in its traditional use, Arm ü Hammer launched a major...
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...Global Forum on Transport and Environment in a Globalising World 10-12 November 2008, Guadalajara, Mexico The Impacts of Globalisation on International Air Transport Activity Past trends and future perspectives Ken Button, School of George Mason University, USA NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT This paper was prepared by Prof. Ken Button of School of George Mason University, USA, as a contribution to the OECD/ITF Global Forum on Transport and Environment in a Globalising World that will be held 10-12 November 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The paper discusses the impacts of increased globalisation on international air traffic activity – past trends and future perspectives. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT .............................................................................................................2 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ACTIVITY - PAST TRENDS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE ....................................................................................................5 1. 2. 3. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................5 Globalization and internationalization ..................................................................................................5 The Basic Features of International Air Transportation .......................................................................6 3.1 Historical...
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...strategy compromise of producing high margine profit product, targting ceratin customers demograpghic, pricing services on two things: profiblity and company requirments, presenting products trough promonotional channels without dmaging the brand (Sam Ashe-Edmunds and Media 2013). All that has been applied successfully in Ryainair situation. Ryanair’s main target is to prsent itselfe as the cheapest low cost airlien operator in Eurpe. That has been achived through successful mrketing strategy of contnious enhancing its offers and enlarging its promotions of cheap services (Ryanair 2013). Ryanair ‘s objective is to increase the quantity of customers using its services while focusing on mintining low cost operations and improving itsefficincies (Ryanair 2013). Ryanair has around 26 bases in Eroupe, the favorite destenation for passengers from the uk and vice versa. In additon to that , Ryanair is using unified fleet of boieng 737-400s , which means the company does not have totrain maintance crews on maintianing new areoplanes. What is more, thse areoplanes can easily fly to the USA without any refulling problems. All these strong points has made marketing rayainrair services is esy task. The company can cover all lesiure destinations t no extra cost. At the same time, the company can offer cheap flights to the USA , s part of the new open skies- pact. The 262 planes the comapy owns can provide a lot of sechulde flights to ny destination . that could become really hany if...
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...You think it is possible to have sensation without perception? Is it possible to have Perception without sensation? Sensation is the activation of the sense organs by a source of physical energy. Perception is the sorting of , interpretation,analysis and integration of stimuli carried out by the sense organs and brain. It is possible to have a perception without sensation,adaptation is the reason behind that. For example, people feel their amputated body parts for a short period of time. However, without perception sensation is not possible. Because, brain can not identify the sensation without perception. If the eye had a second lens that "unreversed" the image hitting the retina ,do you think there would be changes in the way people perceive the world ? Yes, people will see everything rotated 180 degrees from the normal way. It could also affects our vision, people will see things big or small depends upon the position of the second lens. Much research is being conducted for repairing faulty sensory organs through devices such as personal guidance systems and eyeglasses, among others, do you think that researchers should attempt to improve normal sensory capabilities beyond their natural range.For example, make human visual or audio up abilities more sensitive than normal)? What benefit might this ability bring? What problems might it cause? It will be a good attempt if researchers try to improve normal sensory capabilities beyond their natural range. Which will help to improve...
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...English 1A- Hong Assignment 2 Rationalism and Skepticism (Prompt 2) Samar Al-Haqab Samar Al-Haqab Mr. Lyman Hong English 1A October 8th, 2013 Rationalism and Skepticism: Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave and Wachowski’s The Matrix Today’s modern media and society are greatly influenced by not-so-modern artists, philosophers, and writers. We have all watched, read, or analyzed something that was based off of the idea of someone before us. One example for this would be the movie Inception (2010), directed by Christopher Nolan. In this movie the depiction between the idea of a dream and reality is extremely contrasted to the point where it is difficult to draw the line between what is or is not real. The mind boggling adventure of this movie makes us wonder; did the director draw this idea from thin air? The answer is no. In fact, the animated film Paprika (2007), directed by Satoshi Kon directly resembles the ideas and concepts of Inception. This is because Paprika served as a basis for Christopher Nolan in his movie Inception. Movies, concepts, and ideas are always being interpreted or rephrased in different forms. Aside from these two movies, there are other works that are very similar by concept. Two pieces of work that will be discussed further in detail are, the philosophical work, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Lana Wachowski’s movie, The Matrix. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave walks the readers through...
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...her life. Similar with every story that is written, the main character will face a conflict in his or her life. A Story like “Aladdin”, a well-known children story, can be interpreted as a part of learning. Whereby we can see that the sultan of Agrabah learned that he could not trust Jafar, his royal vizier anymore. This was because Jafar tried to take over the Sultan’s power of owning Agrabah. If the conflict had not happened, the Sultan would have not learned about Jafar. This kind of conflict can be defined as an experience to the Sultan of Agrabah. In consequence, the Sultan of Agrabah learned to distrust Jafar. This kind of analysis also applies to some stories and poems. As it is mentioned that most stories or creative writings have conflicts of their own, ”A Good Man is Hard to Find”, “When I heard Learn’d Astronomer”, “The Things They Carried” and “The Secretary’s Chant” lifted up their own conflict by the authors. However, they shared the same theme that is possible to engage them together that experiences shape the individual’s belief. People affect each other’s lives that it is possible for the individual to learn under another person’s influence. This causes people’s comments or actions can change the individual’s way of thinking. A story written by Flannery O’Connor is a story of an old woman that found to lift up the problem of racism. However, in the context of the story, she described a ‘good’ man of her own. Although the story did not emphasize her perception...
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...congruence of the Old Testament with the world surrounding it. This chapter discusses the history, methodology, and reasoning behind comparative Old Testament studies. It then concludes with the principles and goals each student should possess as he or she studies the Old Testament. His synopsis of comparative Old Testament studies begins with the resurgence of Egyptian and Mesopotamian archaeological studies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[1] He then moves on to discuss the impact of Friedrich Delitzsch’s lectures concerning how the writers of the Old Testament borrowed from extrabiblical sources set the stage for many secular ideologies removing the special revelation aspect from the Bible. This allowed two things to take place. First, it brought out the comparative study of the Bible into a critical realm; and second, it made Assyriology, Egyptology, and Hittitology serious academic disciplines which have greatly enhanced modern man’s understanding of these ancient cultures. While Walton discusses several forms of Old Testament study, his opinion favors comparative studies. He starts with explaining the reasoning for sound methodological comparative study and moves on to answer the “why” it should be performed over other studies. In his view, it expands the student’s understanding of four culturally significant areas: language and literature, literary genre, religious practice, and theology. His conclusion provides ten specific principles...
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...1894). The story of Mrs. Mallard Louise Mallard is the major character of the story. She is represented as a fair and calm woman along with little indication of being strong. She was suffering from heart disease and that is why the death of her husband was disclosed to her after much hesitation. Her character envelops a mixture of happiness and grievance. It can clearly be observed when she got the news of her husband’s death. Despite of going into shock, she dramatically cried hard for a time (Jamil, 2009). Owing to the fact that she had a heart trouble, she must had went into shock, however, she was calm and started considering the new opportunities her life may pose her. She welcomed some mysterious things appearing to her from the sky and her actions show that she was feeling immense independence after her husband’s death. She was overjoyed with the fact that she could lead her life without any domination (Seyler, 2009). At start, the weaker side of her character was portrayed, whereas, in room alone she was stronger and her heart was full of energy knowing the fact that she was free. Her weakness returned when she realized that her husband did not actually died. The news quickly took her life. Doctors claimed it death due to joy, however, it was death due to shock of snatched freedom at once. Due to the fact that Louise has a heart trouble she is informed about her...
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...he remains hesitant about the gangs plot to destruct the house. He does not ever voice his concerns. • Old Misery/Mr. Thomas: He is a stock character because he is the typical “old man” who lives for peace and the preservation of beauty. Foreshadowing: As we are aware that the story is about post WWII, and after London was bombed by Hitler, the reader gets a sense that nothing is left standing. Therefore, it is safe to assume that the London Bombing foreshadows that Mr. Thomas’s house will also be destroyed. Plot: • Exposition: The reader is introduced to Trevor, or T, and his plan to destroy Mr. Thomas’s 200 year old home that survived The Blitz. It is learned that Blackie is the gang leader and that he accepts T’s plan, which will be carried out when Mr. Thomas is away. The setting is revealed as it is set in London, post WWII and the above characters, along with the rest of the gang, are briefly introduced. • Complication: This occurs when T unveils his plan to the full extent. He plans to systematically destroy...
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...The Story of an Hour Analysis Kate Chopin’s short story called The Story of an Hour fits its title because the whole story happens in literally an hour or less. In the story the first character we hear about is Mrs. Mallard a wife of a man who works at a railroad; it is also known that she has a heart disease. We also hear about her sister, Josephine who had to break the news to Mrs. Mallard about her husband’s supposed death, the last character is Mr. Mallards friend named Richards, who seems to be with Josephine just for moral support and to be there if anything were to happen. The setting took place in Mr. and Mrs. Mallards house when Josephine went to break the news “in broken sentences” to her about the railroad accident that happened and seemed to cause the life of Mr. Mallard. The story is told in third person, and it only takes an hour or less to find out what really happened at the railroads. After she had heard of the disaster that had happened back at the railroads she started to cry on her sisters shoulders. She was paralyzed at the fact that her husband had died she was in a huge shock and did not expect such news. The story then goes on talking about depression “There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know” I believe that what was coming to her was a depression that she had never felt before. Mrs. Mallard’s felt guilt mostly because she realized that she had taken her husband for granted. Also, by taking...
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...Kamryn Frazier Mrs. Foster 10th Honors Lit/Comp Summer Reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Ishmael Beah Chapters 1-4 Quote Selection and Theme Analysis Theme: The Horrors of War “The sound of the guns was so terrifying it confused everyone. No one was able to think clearly. In a matter of seconds, people started screaming and running in different directions, pushing and trampling on whoever had fallen on the ground. No one had the time to take anything with them. Everyone just ran to save his or her life. Mothers lost their children, whose confused, sad cries coincided with the gunshots. Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives”(p. 23). This quotation...
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