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Glenn Beck And Dish Network: The Beginning Of The End For Pay TV Tyranny?
Forbes ^ | 9/12/2012 | Jeff Bercovici

Posted on 09/12/2012 10:42:04 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake

Starting at 5 p.m. Eastern time today, Beck’s channel, The Blaze, will be channel 212 in Dish Network’s 14 million households. It will be included as part of a 250-channel package, or available as a premium channel, for $5 a month, to those who receive a more basic package.

In sheer dollar terms, the deal is big but not gigantic for Beck’s company. Dish will reportedly pay a “small” per-subscriber carriage fee, which likely means 5 cents to 10 cents per month per household. In its first year, then, the agreement will yield subscription revenues of less than $16 million. That’s not earth-shattering for a man whose multi-media empire was already closing in on revenues of $100 million even before he signed a new five-year, $100 million radio contract.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dish; glennbeck; theblaze; woot
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I'm a Dish Network customer; watching now. Good production quality. Just on, Dinesh D'Souza and Frank Gaffney speaking on jug ears' adminitration mishandling of the muzzie brotherhood.
1 posted on 09/12/2012 10:42:14 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
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To: ForGod'sSake

Thanks for the info.


2 posted on 09/12/2012 10:47:10 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: ForGod'sSake

Must look into getting Dish Network. This is a good move for Glenn. Gives more people access to his great shows.


3 posted on 09/12/2012 10:52:08 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Do it today. Don't wait.)
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To: Slyfox

You’re welcome. I don’t mind saying I’m a Glenn Beck fan. The guy is fearless in pursuing the truth as he sees it. No one else comes close IMHO. A little unconventional but what the hey.


4 posted on 09/12/2012 10:52:20 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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To: ForGod'sSake

I think Olbermann has a solid twitter following...so there’s that.


5 posted on 09/12/2012 10:55:03 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Pajamajan
Must look into getting Dish Network.

I got lucky. I'm already a customer but having the basic package means I'll have to pony up another $5 a month if I want to keep him after the two week freebie.

6 posted on 09/12/2012 10:55:44 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Thanks! Dish had no ads that I’ve seen promoting this.


7 posted on 09/12/2012 10:58:17 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Olbermann...Olbermann....now where have I heard that name before? Sports, right??? ;^)


8 posted on 09/12/2012 10:58:54 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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To: JDoutrider
Dish had no ads that I’ve seen promoting this.

I haven't seen any either. I found out about it via a phone call and an email from one of his online subscribers. I hope it works out for him AND Dish. After just a couple hours watching I'm convinced the additional $5 a month will be $$$'s well spent. JMHO of course...

9 posted on 09/12/2012 11:04:07 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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If you get Dish you don’t get ‘Breaking Bad’ or Mad Men’
They dropped AMC.
:)


10 posted on 09/12/2012 11:06:08 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: ForGod'sSake
I used to be Comcast and went to Dish.

I prefer Comcast

I give DISH a D on service and reliability and On Demand features

a B on recording capabilities

my only issue with Comcast was my house is 400 yards off road and I needed really 2-3 separate lines from the road rather than branches from box in house...with 8 cable end points

had a lot of drop offs and whatnot

but before when I had it at another home without rural issues it was perfect

Cable just beats Satellite in my view overall by a wide margin except picture quality but it's not that noticeable unless you dwell on it

and I am missing Hell on Wheels and Breaking Bad and may lose Walking Dead too and my kids will be in open revolt

unless Dish and AMC come to terms

when my contract is up...soon...I'm going back to Cable

11 posted on 09/12/2012 11:07:33 PM PDT by wardaddy (this is a perfect window for Netanyahu to bomb Iran..I hereby give my go ahead..thanks Muzzie idiots)
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If you get Dish you don’t get ‘Breaking Bad’ or Mad Men’

Heh. I actually can't think of a single "series" I watch, which I suspect is what those are, and rarely a movie. Fact is, I don't watch much teevee at all. Chaps my butt I've got ~100 channels and there aren't a handful worth watching. If I had one of the larger packages, I'd just have more channels I wouldn't watch.

12 posted on 09/12/2012 11:14:30 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Ok, FRiend. Just thought I’d throw that in. :)


13 posted on 09/12/2012 11:16:21 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: wardaddy

Hey wardaddy. Overall I’ve been satisfied with Dish but I’m not a very demanding customer. The teevee is just not on that much and I may buy a PPV movie two or three times a year — maybe. I had DirecTV for about ten years before Dish got right on price and I switched. I don’t have access to cable either; the nearest cable service in this area is the nearest town of any consequence, about 15 miles away. Suits me though as long as I can get FoxNews, TWC, History, Discovery channels and catch a ball game now and then.


14 posted on 09/12/2012 11:26:16 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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If you get Dish you don’t get ‘Breaking Bad’ or Mad Men’ They dropped AMC. :)

But you can get the "Hopper" record 6 channels at once and watch them in any room, and I thank 2000 hours record time, and you get Beck.

Those shows will show up on NetFlix or maybe just buy the DVD when they come out. I on the other hand still get them and Breaking Bad had a cliff hanger finale.

Roku gets Beck, but I have been longing for the "Hopper" with commercial skip. :)

15 posted on 09/13/2012 12:36:29 AM PDT by itsahoot (I'll write in Palin in 2012. That is 1 vote for Palin, 0 votes for Romney and Zer0 votes for Obama.)
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To: wardaddy
I give DISH a D on service and reliability and On Demand features

Your on demand would depend on your broadband carrier right?

16 posted on 09/13/2012 12:38:44 AM PDT by itsahoot (I'll write in Palin in 2012. That is 1 vote for Palin, 0 votes for Romney and Zer0 votes for Obama.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

I watched the launch and it was vintage Beck. The amazing thing is the HIGH quality his production looks like in comparison to the basement and garage looking production on Current and Democracy Now! and RT which are all funded by huge Liberals.

I think Beck is gonna give Fox huge problems in the numbers game because Beck has a news division as well that goes up some monster Fox programming.


17 posted on 09/13/2012 12:40:12 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: wardaddy

The good thing about Blaze - TV is it is lined up with all of the major news networks and not lumped out on channel 493 buried.


18 posted on 09/13/2012 12:42:10 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: ForGod'sSake
I used to be Comcast and went to Dish.

I prefer Comcast

I give DISH a D on service and reliability and On Demand features

a B on recording capabilities

my only issue with Comcast was my house is 400 yards off road and I needed really 2-3 separate lines from the road rather than branches from box in house

had a lot of drop offs and whatnot

but before when I had it at another home without rural issues it was perfect

Cable just beats Satellite in my view overall by a wide margin except picture quality but it's not that noticeable unless you dwell on it

and I am missing Hell on Wheels and Breaking Bad and may lose Walking Dead too and my kids will be in open revolt

unless Dish and AFC come to terms

when my contract is up...soon...I'm going back to Cable

19 posted on 09/13/2012 12:43:49 AM PDT by wardaddy (this is a perfect window for Netanyahu to bomb Iran..I hereby give my go ahead..thanks Muzzie idiots)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I hope you’re right about Beck cuttin in to Fox’s programming. I, for one, have Dish, and have been looking for something to watch other than Fox. They have grown stale to me.
Now, I’ll watch Beck. :)


20 posted on 09/13/2012 12:45:19 AM PDT by Sporke (USS Iowa BB-61)
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