Cable TV and internet customers will owe Comcast an extra $78 this year due to a price hike that went into effect in January. AT&T recently upped the price for its DirecTV satellite service, adding another $108 to customer bills.
Hulu just jacked up its price by $10 a month, although many of its
Greg Kucera is bidding
adieu to Seattle and
bonjour to a literal castle in France: The founder and director of Seattle s blue chip gallery for the past 37 years will retire starting sometime this year. But the space isn t going anywhere. Jim Wilcox, Kucera s employee of the past 21 years, bought the gallery along with his wife, Carol. Wilcox and Kucera will be co-directors of the space for several years, then Kucera s ownership will slowly decrease with time. In a blog post, Kucera said the gallery continued to have good business during the pandemic, which is a good sign for our future. I ll have more on this later, but if you want to check out Greg s medieval new digs, watch this video (turn the volume all the way up for effect).
Cable TV, Internet Costs Set to Rise for Many in 2021
The timing of the price increases couldn t be worse for millions of Americans out of work, stuck at home and struggling to keep up with bills. But big media companies put the blame on the ever-rising cost of programming. by Tim Grant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / January 25, 2021
AT&T recently upped the price for its DirecTV satellite service, adding another $108 to customer bills.
Hulu just jacked up its price by $10 a month, although many of its customers are families who switched to the streaming service in order to cut the cord from high-priced cable TV companies. Other popular video-on-demand services like
The business of helping businesses succeed
COCC s Small Business Development Center is a steady resource in a time of uncertainty
Geoff Frank, owner of Tumalo Creek Kayak & Canoe, a paddling outfitter and guiding company, makes his livelihood on the banks of the Deschutes River, where his Bend shop has been located for the past 20 years. Our whole mission is to create paddlers, he said of the busy company, which caters to all manner of boaters and floaters with gear, rentals and instruction, and typically employs some 60 staffers in the summer.But when COVID-19 swept in, troubled waters were unavoidable. Small businesses that have a season, like Tumalo Creek, were particularly vulnerable. We had to completely rethink every aspect of our operation and adapt, Frank said. We came up with a reservation system for our rentals, to manage how many people we allowed at one time. And we got creative on how we could still offer instruction with maintaining safety and physical