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Dish-AMC Trial Has Become 3-Ring Circus
tvpredictions.com ^ | October 17, 2012 | Phillip Swann

Posted on 10/18/2012 1:59:07 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave

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1 posted on 10/18/2012 1:59:16 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
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To: ADemocratNoMore; advertising guy; aft_lizard; AJMaXx; Alice in Wonderland; american colleen; ...
Pinging the HDTV list..


2 posted on 10/18/2012 2:01:24 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (".....All 57 states (or is it 58?) must stand together and defeat O'bozo!.....")
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To: Las Vegas Dave

crap’ I’ve got Dish


3 posted on 10/18/2012 2:01:36 AM PDT by advertising guy (" that lie has it's own sleep number " David Feherty PGA Championship 2012)
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Yeah I’ve got Dish, too and am po’d that I don’t have the AMC channels. Hell on Wheels is a good show. Have had to watch it a season behind on Netflix.


4 posted on 10/18/2012 2:24:43 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Breaking right through that glass ceiling.


5 posted on 10/18/2012 2:29:30 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Real Cynic No More
Have had to watch it a season behind on Netflix.

IMO, there a several HUGE upsides to using Netflix:

  1. No "AMC" logo in the lower right of your screen
  2. No huge flashy graphics for other AMC shows in the lower left of your screen
  3. No commercials. And especially no commercials for upcoming episodes of "Hell on Wheels" itself.
  4. SPOILER ALERT: You can skip the extremely stupid episode where Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski is transported back to the 1860s and wants a "manifesto" published in a New York newspaper

6 posted on 10/18/2012 2:39:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Las Vegas Dave
Well the judge should at least give him time to delete the porn off the hard drive before handing it over.

/s maybe

7 posted on 10/18/2012 2:47:47 AM PDT by BipolarBob (G Orwell was an optimist it seems.)
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To: advertising guy

VOOM? WGAS?

I have DISH. Never, ever watched VOOM. If they reduce(d) my monthly bill for cutting VOOM, I’m happy.


8 posted on 10/18/2012 2:49:40 AM PDT by tdscpa
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VOOM? WGAS?

I have DISH. Never, ever watched VOOM. If they reduce(d) my monthly bill for cutting VOOM, I’m happy.


9 posted on 10/18/2012 2:54:05 AM PDT by tdscpa
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This is breaking bad for Dish. I bet there are a bunch of mad men in their corporate offices. The folks who made the decision to play hardball with AMC are probably walking dead men in terms of their future career opportunities.


10 posted on 10/18/2012 3:12:03 AM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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"The judge inferred that Dish and Crawford may have deleted emails important to the case"

I wonder how Mr. Swann knows this.

11 posted on 10/18/2012 3:49:08 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

All very interesting. I can remember Voom building a remote uplink facility just north of Black Hawk SD on I-90. It wasn’t long after that they went bust, and Dish bought the facility. I thought that at least some of the HD content passed to Dish HD programming options.


12 posted on 10/18/2012 4:04:10 AM PDT by wita
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To: Las Vegas Dave

AMC is also pounding Dish in virtually every commercial for their hit show The Walking Dead which had 10.9 million viewers even without Dish coverage.


13 posted on 10/18/2012 4:05:48 AM PDT by Truth29
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voom_HD_Networks

Some interesting history here. Not exactly sure of the validity overall but it sounds about right.


14 posted on 10/18/2012 4:17:45 AM PDT by wita
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You missed Breaking Bad, Hell on Wheels and Into the west.

You are not however subjected to endless reruns of Walking dead


15 posted on 10/18/2012 4:22:47 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Las Vegas Dave

DirecTV. We got he NFL Ticket for free this year because they shut off Nick for 2 weeks. (and because we reminded them of the past 12 years that we have put up w/ price increases and all we got in return was a butt load of shopping channels)

But, hey, we get to watch the Dolphins for free this season. Everything is beautiful.


16 posted on 10/18/2012 4:30:46 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Who in God’s name watches AMC? I thought they died years ago.


17 posted on 10/18/2012 4:42:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: RightFighter

HA! Nice way to work the shows in.


18 posted on 10/18/2012 4:49:08 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Who in God’s name watches AMC?

I do.


19 posted on 10/18/2012 4:51:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (CNN's Candy Boo Boo Child hosed the 10/16 debate. What an Obama-licker!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You must not realize all the original shows they make. Walking Dead is HUGE! Breaking Bad, etc...


20 posted on 10/18/2012 4:53:00 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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