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ATTN: All DISH Customers, Lifetime Net. No Longer Available

#1 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:02 am

Dish Network Ends Lifetime Programming

Dish Network Halts Carrying Lifetime Programs As Two Sides Fail to Agree on Deal

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- Dish Network customers stopped receiving two Lifetime Television channels Sunday after the company and Dish parent EchoStar Communications Corp. were unable to reach terms on a new contract.

Dish Network's contract to carry Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network ended Saturday.

EchoStar said Lifetime had requested an "exorbitant" 76 percent rate hike for Dish to carry the channels.

Lifetime countered on its Web site that the increase was a fraction of what EchoStar has paid for less popular channels and urged viewers to contact Dish.

"The truth is that Dish unilaterally pulled Lifetime Networks off the air, on New Year's Eve no less, despite our offer to extend their contract through the holidays and despite more than seven months of our efforts to reach a fair agreement," New York-based Lifetime said in a statement on its Web site.

EchoStar replaced the Lifetime programming with a preview of Women's Entertainment Network programming. Dish also ran a message on the bottom of viewers' screens explaining the dispute and telling them to visit http://www.fairsatellite.com.

"While Dish Network desires to make Lifetime programming available to its customers, we also must protect our customers from exorbitant rate increases," EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen said in a letter posted on the site.
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I thought DISH Network could sink no lower. :roll:

Maybe, the small town of Clark, Texas would think twice about swiching their name to DISH, Texas.
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#2 Postby HurryKane » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:23 am

Lifetime is the most depressing channel EVER.


For fun, though...the Lifetime Movie Title Generator: http://www.bredcrumbs.com/lifetime-movi ... generator/
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#3 Postby gtalum » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:24 am

It's the man-hater network. :lol:
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#4 Postby DoctorHurricane2003 » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:07 pm

No, Hallmark is the most depressing channel ever. At least Lifetime has shows like the Nanny.
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#5 Postby Kim_in_MN » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:47 pm

HurryKane wrote:For fun, though...the Lifetime Movie Title Generator: http://www.bredcrumbs.com/lifetime-movi ... generator/


I don't watch much TV, but I like the title generator!

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#6 Postby Brent » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:20 pm

Uh... this happened a couple weeks ago.
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#7 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:53 pm

Brent wrote:Uh... this happened a couple weeks ago.
I just got this kind of news today...then again, I'm not a DISH network customer. :lol:
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#8 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:45 pm

And this wasn't the first time DISH had an argument with the networks. Almost 2 years ago, they had a dispute with CBS, UPN, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1. Spike TV, BET, Comedy Central and all other Viacom-owned networks.

DISH Network, Crappy TV for all. :lol:
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#9 Postby MGC » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:00 pm

Dish, the reason I switched to Directv.....MGC
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Re: ATTN: All DISH Customers, Lifetime Net. No Longer Availa

#10 Postby southerngale » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:36 am



DISH? I don't blame them. The rate increase Lifetime wanted was astronomical.

I've always been a cable customer, but got DISH a few months ago when cable was taking forever after the hurricane. I chose DISH over DirecTV because I knew several happy DISH customers and was familiar with my sister's. Plus their deal was better. No complaints so far.

Anyway, I don't watch Lifetime....maybe something every blue moon, so I don't care if it's gone anyway. :)
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#11 Postby j » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:49 am

Here in Greenville, hundreds of angry snarling woman gathered at the YWCA to rally, protest, cry, and watch Fried Green Tomatoes.

75% true
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#12 Postby wx247 » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:03 am

j wrote:Here in Greenville, hundreds of angry snarling woman gathered at the YWCA to rally, protest, cry, and watch Fried Green Tomatoes.

75% true


I'm not even going to guess which part isn't. :A:
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#13 Postby GalvestonDuck » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:40 pm

Brent wrote:Uh... this happened a couple weeks ago.


Ditto that -- it happened at the beginning of the new year, if I remember correctly.

Lifetime Network -- my source for Patty Duke movies.

And I'm a Dish subscriber...grrrrrrrr.
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#14 Postby beachbum_al » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:58 am

I subscribe to Dish too and I thank Dish Network for the warning. They could had warned us before dishing the network. :cry:
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#15 Postby southerngale » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:19 pm

I noticed Lifetime was back a few days ago. I don't know what day it came back.
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