First came troops with assault rifles and flak jackets, then street cleaners with brooms and buckets of whitewash, and finally satellite TV salesmen with a three-month special offer to first-time subscribers.
NOTE: First-time subscribers receive a 50% discount on season tickets.
In August, with the US elections heating up, I became a first-time subscriber.
And if you visit a retailer's site and get on its email list, you'll typically receive a first-time subscriber discount, such as 15percentt off or $25 off a $100 purchase, said Kendal Perez, a savings expert with Coupon Sherpa.
For the first time Netflix subscribers will have access to the service through pay-TV.
In briefings ahead of Tuesday's announcement, Ford and Sirius XM said the app support would, for the first time, allow subscribers to use the Sirius XM Internet radio app on iPhones and Android handsets, making it possible to stream not only satellite channels but also personalized MySXM channels and on-demand programs like Howard Stern's.
Comcast customers previously could rent Disney films, but Tuesday's arrangement marks the first time that subscribers can purchase a digital copy of a Disney film.
Large numbers of club memberships are now maturing for the first time, meaning that subscribers may demand reimbursement from the clubs, and many Japanese are realizing for the first time the extent of their losses.
For the first time, Comcast X1 subscribers will also get access to live streaming of all of these events on this platform.
This was the first time Sprint Nextel lost overall subscribers in two and a half years, as customers gave up on the moribund Nextel network and the company failed to sign up enough of them on the Sprint network.
