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Echostar/Dish Network Pulls Viacom Channels
RedWolves2 writes "As was mentioned yesterday, Viacom was trying to warn Dish Network customers over the weekend that its channels were going to be pulled from their service. Well today those channels were finally pulled. 'EchoStar Communications Corp. on Tuesday pulled from service 16 of Viacom's local CBS stations and 10 of its national channels after the companies failed to agree on contract terms and prices.' Echostar will provide a $1 monthly credit to customers who lose programming while the channels are unavailable. Sorry but $1 a month is not exactly a fair trade off. DirecTV sounds like a great choice."
Dish Network and Viacom are two of the most bloated, poorly run companies out there. I hope this deals both of them the death blow they surely deserve.
Surely this move is also important to SCO - after all, the Canopy Group is invested in both Viacom and Dish Network. Maybe there'll be some Linux audit coming up?
...are going to call up EchoStar now that their kids can't sit and watch Nickelodeon all day like zombies?
I would really hate to be an EchoStar cust. serv. rep. right now.
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