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Now that DISH Network/EchoStar took away all the channels owned by CBS & Viacom, would you be seeing...

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It doesn't matter and I don't care
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As far as DISH is concerned, they can SCREW themselves!!
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#1 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:34 am

I would be seeing less subscribers.

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#2 Postby Miss Mary » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:43 am

I said less too. One of the reasons I wanted cable years ago was for Nick at Night shows. My youngest, a Sponge Bob fanatic, has no idea we lost both Nick stations yet. I dread even telling her!!!! She could stand to lose a few cartoons anyway. I'll just say - let me introduce you to a good book or two, or the History channel!!! Can you just hear the groans?

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#3 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:50 am

NOTE: One more option is added.
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#4 Postby Miss Mary » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:52 am

TexasStooge wrote:NOTE: One more option is added.


Uh, Stooge, #4 option would be my husband's vote. LOL But he's not a member here, so I'm not letting him get a vote. :-)

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#5 Postby JQ Public » Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:32 pm

yeh i keep seeing this message scrolling across the screen when i'm watching mtv. Its really annoying. at first i thought it was time warner cable trying to get more subscribers, but it was the actual channel i guess?!
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#6 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:36 pm

JQ Public wrote:yeh i keep seeing this message scrolling across the screen when i'm watching mtv. Its really annoying. at first i thought it was time warner cable trying to get more subscribers, but it was the actual channel i guess?!


Yes, it's the channel itself, last night while I was watching "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "CSI: Miami", I saw the message scrolling "You may lose KTVT/CBS 11, as well as sister station KTXA/UPN 21, Nickelodeon, MTV & Comedy Central..."
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#7 Postby Miss Mary » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:49 pm

Update - big discussion going on in our household now. Hubby wants to cancel Dish, kids want cable, I want cable, and he wants to..... "let's go back to nothing again"!!! I knew he'd say that. Sigh......:-)

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#8 Postby timNms » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:20 pm

We have directtv and still have all of the channels that Dish took away. We're too far out of town to get cable.
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#9 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:23 pm

I wonder what they'll remove next? CNN, TNT, HBO/Cinemax, The Weather Channel, Cartoon Network, the Superstations, the local packages?
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#10 Postby blizzard » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:29 pm

I think that Dish did the right thing, by holding out. THe increase that Viacom wanted was ridiculous and every subscriber's rates would have gone up quite a bit just for a few channels. As it turns out, Viacom saw the errors in their ways and they came to an amicable arrrangement.
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#11 Postby Miss Mary » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:32 pm

blizzard wrote:I think that Dish did the right thing, by holding out. THe increase that Viacom wanted was ridiculous and every subscriber's rates would have gone up quite a bit just for a few channels. As it turns out, Viacom saw the errors in their ways and they came to an amicable arrrangement.
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Blizzard - I agree. Not many are seeing the situation from Dish's standpoint. They didn't want to pass on the high price raises to customers. So in a sense Dish was thinking of their customers, not trying to inconvience them. While we were out a few channels for what, 48 hours, it didn't really inconvience us much. You did wonder what would happen to Dish had the dispute gone on for a week or more. But thankfully it was all resolved.

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