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"We really like our Dish system, but it really rubs me the wrong way to be paying for the left wing channels we get with our package"

I with you. I have Dish and I think it's great; we don't watch a lot of TV, and we never watch the "alphabet" networks.

Actually, I would have been happy with the very basic package, but it did not include FOX news...so I told them I wanted the cheapest package that has FOX News...so that's what I got.

10 posted on 09/25/2009 6:34:54 AM PDT by FrankR (We are only enslaved to the extent of charity we receive....INCUMBENTS OUT!!!)

Yes, you have to upgrade to get FOX News and now Fox Business.

We probably watch a dozen channels on a regular basis. There was a change in the bay area NBC stations a few years ago, and we didn’t get NBC for a few months. We didn’t know anything about the loss of the NBC channel until a visitor tried to get NBS and got the message that Dish had cancelled the contract with the local provider. He laughed.

12 posted on 09/25/2009 6:41:55 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)

Actually, I would have been happy with the very basic package, but it did not include FOX news...so I told them I wanted the cheapest package that has FOX News...so that's what I got.

After 13 years with DirecTV, mainly since it was the only thing we could get more than 3 channels with where we lived and then for the NFL Sunday Ticket package, we recently switched to FIOS.

I was going to keep DirecTV for the Sunday Ticket package, but then FIOS offered the NFL Red Zone package and I said...Hmmmmm?

Nicest part...no tiers. Had to pay extra for things on DirecTV and they nickel and dimed me to death.

Seriously, or evenly seriesly, if you have access to FIOS, get it!

Whole house DVR is amazing and all the shows we like are available via "On Demand" so we don't have to use the DVR as much as we used to.

On another subject....did anyone bother to watch Modern Family and/or Cougar Town?

The previews looked extremely repugnant so was wondering how the ratings were skewed to make them appear as "Must See" shows.

16 posted on 09/25/2009 6:49:26 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)

“Actually, I would have been happy with the very basic package, but it did not include FOX news...so I told them I wanted the cheapest package that has FOX News...so that's what I got.”

That is exactly what I did, and for the same reason.

The funny twist to that is the fact that news corp ( FOX) owns DISH!

17 posted on 09/25/2009 6:51:02 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)

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