My bosses daughter is a honcho at Charter Media (Charter Cable) here in St Louis. Charter’s (semi)annual party for clients, employees, and “connected folk” was last night. She scooped him up (or vice-versa?) and they attended as a couple.
It seems that somehow, peons were inadvertently left off the invitation list, though. The median income, it seems, is rather high amidst the employee-participants of the gathering. Strange. Obviously a clerical error of some sort.
He shared what was featured in his daughter’s company event:
Palm readers, a massage therapist, a super-honcho Chevy dealership owner supervising the, uh, liars poker game, a corner jazz orchestra, complete with prancing ladies nearby, lots of food, lots of liquid refreshment, and (evidently, according to my boss) delightful young maidens attending to the drink orders and libations of the party guests.
Perhaps we now have a bit of insight as to how/why monthly Charter monthly service fees tend to notch upward (just a smidgeon) now and then.
Entertainment pays. Wait, no. Entertainment is a good investment. Huh?  ‘Entertainment’ is that which needs to be…
…PASSED ALONG!Â
Your entire premise, that Charter Media is Charter Cable, is incorrect. Charter Media is a separate but related company from Charter Communications - the cable tv side. Charter Media is the advertising sales wing and it has its own set of books, budgets and revenues.
People love to gripe about their cable bill. But most people have no idea of the costs involved. Charter Communications pays each network, like Discovery or HBO, money for each and every cable tv subscriber. It\\\’s not pennies either. There are many networks that are in the dollar range. Now multiply that by the several hundred channels that are provided and you will quickly realize, on a per subscriber basis, there isn\\\’t much profit in the cable tv biz. That\\\’s where VOIP, Broadband and Charter Media fit in.
In fact, Charter Media is helping to lower your bill by supplementing the bottom line with advertising revenue. Advertising dollars spent by local businesses, right there in your neighborhood, that want to increase their sales. Their increased sales means more jobs for local people, like you.
The \\\’party\\\’ was really a client thank you for their business. It would have been entirely inappropriate for an installer or a customer service rep, you rather patronizingly called them peons, to attend the function. I am certain that there were representatives from Charter Media\\\’s admin, traffic and billing departments at the function since they regularly work with our advertising clients.
I know the blogosphere is full of bitching but I found your particular rant completely ill-informed and felt the need to say something.
Regards.