Posted on 10/01/2010 2:58:40 PM PDT by Lucky9teen
Attention DISH NETWORK Customers! DISH NETWORK no longer carries the FOX Regional Sports Networks, FX, or National Geographic Channel. You could also lose FOX and MyNet starting 11/1.
But not Sons of Anarchy? Nooooooo
Death pangs.
They will lose me at the same time. I smell a Rat...a DemoRat around here somewhere.
Dish Network has always been at the bottom of the food chain of cable & satellite providers.
We pay these cable/satellite services for the privelege of having nearly half the shows filled with commercials anyway. Between landline phone service and cable/satellite feels like getting ripped off. If I was unemployed they would be the first of the budget cuts.
It’s a contract dispute. Fox wanted more than Dish was willing to pay.
It will get sorted out. These things always do.
Cablevision is going to cut Fox programming soon too, if certain money issues are not met....
Nooooooooooooooo! Not no Fringe!
At least it isn’t SyFy.
I hate streaming vs D/L & play; my connection is plenty fast enough DSL, but the damned stop-start throtling kill it; never enough buffering.
Not the first time Fox has played hardball with providers, so I expect no interruption on 11/1, but that I will see an increase in my bill.
From the Dish press release:
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - (NASDAQ: DISH) - Oct. 1, 2010 - DISH Network L.L.C. reports today that FOX Networks is blocking DISH Network’s access to 19 FOX Regional Sports Networks and other programming. FOX is demanding a new contract with an unprecedented rate increase of more than 50 percent. FOX’s removal of the channels follows the programmer’s national TV, print and web advertising campaign designed to intimidate DISH Network and its customers into paying the rate increase. FOX has flatly refused DISH Network’s request to allow customers to continue to watch these FOX channels during the negotiations.
These negotiations with FOX do not affect local FOX TV stations, FOX News or FOX Business News.
Who’d a thunk it......... contract neogiations and money at work.
And the customer will have the increase on their bill. I hate Dish, I'm ready to pull the plug.
Doesn’t it distract you while driving, trying to figure out which unit is bleeping for your attention?
Bittorrent.
Must not be a GM vehicle.
So it’s a money dispute. How much money will the cable or Dish get if everyone drops them because they dropped Fox?
That would be my first move.
Dish did this last year with ABC. Took them months to restore it.
Dish claims this is because FOX wants too much money. Dish will will lose customers if bills go up and they will lose customers if they drop FOX. The solution to me is to cut out CNN and HLN and use that dough to pay FOX.
Have you tried Netflix streaming on DSL? I have a Mac Mini hooked up to a 52” Sony, and it streams quite well, even the HD stuff.
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