Viacom and DishNetwork Battle On Air Over Contract

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 8, 2004 @08:45AM from the this-is-just-bizarre dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This weekend, Viacom stations began scrolling messages on their cable stations(MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, etc) stating that DishNetwork may soon be removing the channels from its lineup and urging subscribers to call DishNetwork. DishNetwork subscribers(me!) may have begun to see black bars cover the messages and calls to DishNetwork regarding the messages were greeted with a recording telling subscribers to call the President and GM of KCBS. These antics stem from lawsuits here. I, for one, will be switching to DirecTV if they don't get this figured out."

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Re:The list of channels in play... by SphericalCrusher · 2004-03-08 08:59 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I'm happy with Comcast Cable. I keep all of my channels.

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Re:Viacom really needs to watch themselves by cyt0plas · 2004-03-08 12:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Actually, DirecTV does a pretty good job with theirs. I ordered some pay-per-view (for the family) - the box was showing it no more than 15 (think it was like 3 - can't be sure) seconds after I told it to do it online. Same for channel adding removing etc.

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