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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."
I'm surprized that Dish is even paying $1 with the way that buissness are run today
After I post this I am going to the Dish site and
thank them. They have rendered a service here.
Viacom should be paying Dish to carry that stuff.
You're not even watching TV right now, are you? exactly.
Life is offtopic.
I can just see African-Americans crying racism for Dish Network no longer carrying BET. :-/
But seriously, I don't know of many people that watch MTV or VH1 on a regular basis. They're more likely to watch Nickelodeon or Comedy Central, and that's where its absence on Dish Network will REALLY be felt. Indeed, Nickelodeon is probably one of the most popular channels on cable TV, period.
Anyway, it's another black eye (pun definitely intended) against Viacom, a company who's bad PR of the last year or so is threatening to make Michael Eisner of Disney look like a saint in comparison.
Great. Another geek who wants to be a lawyer.
You miss a basic fact of business, you don't want to burn your customer base when your competitor has about the same or better services.
You can argue all the trial lawyer crap you want, if you have a declining customer base when it comes time to put that replacement bird into orbit all the legal immunity in the world isn't going to save your company.
Yes, the FCC led by dyed-in-whool "deregulate everything right now! Big business knows best!" Republican Michael Powell who was appointed by Clinton
A key point people love to forget.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.