Is that a Satellite dish sticking outta your ass? or are you just taking away my fucking channels?. (489 hits)
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Submitted by adam <tiny-weiner.at.hugeballs.com> (View user info) at 2004-03-11 11:34:43 EST
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13791.html
This is such fucking bullshit. For those of you to lazy to read the article above let me summarize.
Viacom (the owners of MTV, CBS, VHI, Comedy-fuckin-Central, Nick and nick at night and a few others) and Dish-wellfuckmyass-Network have decided to have a contract war in public on my TV and the TVs of millions of other DishNetwork subscribers.
"In what Viacom calls "channel yanking... on an unprecedented scale," Dish Network says that it is refusing to carry them because of "unreasonable" rate increases proposed by Viacom. The situation at the current time, therefore, is that viewers in the following markets are not able to receive their local CBS station over the digital satellite service: Austin, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Green Bay, Wis., Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Meanwhile, customers of Dish Network nationwide are unable to receive BET, Comedy Central, MTV, MTV2, MTV Espanol, Nickelodeon, Nick Games & Sports, Noggin, VH1, VH1 Classic and CBS-HD East and West."
Now, honestly I don't give two fucks about CBS (except Letterman, his could rule Leno's ass bigtime)
But I do care about Comedy Central. alot. I need it. I must have my Dave Chappell/Atell fix. Even though these missing channels make up a whopping 6.5% of the average programming package for Dish network Subscribers, we get ourselves a very respectable 1.00 credit on our bill for each month that the negotiations are in progress. Let me restate that last part. EACH MONTH THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE IN PROGRESS, that means to me that they figure there will be a stale-mate for quite some time.
One angle that Dish Network thinks they can exploit is the "Viacom is holding the public airways hostage" bullshit. Dish Network is actually trying to get a Congressional Hearing over this shit. Thats right Congress. If our fucking government wasn't busy enough with useless legislation (like putting an amendment in the constitution defining marriage) they get to decide who wins in a fight between two CEOs with the about half of the charisma as a half empty diet pepsi or Al Gore.
And.....I'm spent.
-adam
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Submitted by Systematicevil (user info) at 2004-05-23 13:53:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
right on sister.
Submitted by psyduck (user info) at 2004-03-11 15:14:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
for Al Gore
Submitted by psyduck (user info) at 2004-03-11 15:13:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for twinkies
Submitted by psyduck (user info) at 2004-03-11 15:13:01 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
You need to get off the couch anyway
Submitted by Bob_Bank (user info) at 2004-03-11 13:48:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Screw dish network, screw viacom, screw cable. Say hello to the internet. No commercials, and it's always on.
Submitted by volklcess (user info) at 2004-03-11 12:04:30 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Chill out and go turn on your TV and you'll notice that you now have these channels back.
Submitted by sharpie (user info) at 2004-03-11 11:40:15 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
-2 for me.
What the hell, have I been stuck in a friggin timewarp. Sorry guys.
-adam
Submitted by Anjie (user info) at 2004-03-11 11:40:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I have Dish Network and I got my channels backlast night.....
I'll have my Survivor tonight!! Woo hoo!
Submitted by WillZone (user info) at 2004-03-11 11:38:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
The matter has been resolved: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040310005883&newsLang=en
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2004-03-11 11:36:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
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