Posted on 01/06/2015 7:43:04 AM PST by aimhigh
Hedging against a protracted carriage battle with Fox News, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has signed an agreement to carry Glenn Beck's indie conservative channel TheBlaze.
The move comes two weeks after 21st Century Fox pulled Fox News off the program guides of 14 million Dish subscribers.
"Due to circumstances beyond my control, Dish has removed Fox News and given TheBlaze TV their spot in the channel lineup," Beck wrote on his Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) page over the holidays. "That means if you have Dish, you can now watch TheBlaze on channel 212 and channel 205, 100 percent free.
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Did you wonder the same when CNN was not available for the same reason? I appreciate Dish not bending over. I like my rates not going up.
AMEN
If so, wouldn't they have replaced them with Al Jazeera?
You're joking right? Capitalism, dude.
I don’t miss FauX Nooz in the least.
Ànd if Dish keeps jacking rates up..
I won’t miss CNN or Al Jazeera either.
Pull the plug.
Connect to the Cosmic news feed.
Donate to FR.
Ya get the email from Dish re: Sling.com?
Small starter package. Cheap.
Addons . Cheap.
Ala carte?
Or at least a step that direction.
I don’t have a dog in this fight (I have regular old Verizon cable) but I’d wager 3 quatloos that a lot of those Hallmark Movies are available on Netflix. I say that not having watched a lot of the Hallmark Movie channel (save for when my wife has it on somehow), but there’s bot any real new content on that channel, right? And if there were, it’d be of the straight-to-dvd genre that Netflix also has.
And I have been wanting to ditch cable / sat myself and the wife isn’t on board either.
My cable system, Suddenlink, has changed several networks. Blaze being one of them and it is just about the biggest waste of electricity I have ever seen. It is alarming to see the newer channels of todays cable systems.
They also added Sprout, ID, Up, and Pivot, using them to replace marginal but watchable channels. This, being on the basic tier, has severely impacted their system. I will be changing in the near future.
I just checked.
I get it and some other Hallmark channel and don’t have a super premium package.
I’m watching Hart To Hart.
Well, actually, I’m verifying the channel for you and getting outta Dodge, immediately.
It’s not a channel I’d watch.
:)
Apparently they included it an “HD package” and I never noticed. :)
http://news.directv.com/2014/09/16/hallmark-movie-channel-is-now-hallmark-movies-mysteries/
haha! What was he crying about in this video?
Everything ....
Check out Canadian satellite tv companies for their offerings.
“Does anyone here remember when ALL Stations were 100% paid for through advertising??”
No. NET/CPB/PBS
I’m watching Hart To Hart. Well, actually, I’m verifying the channel for you and getting outta Dodge, immediately. It’s not a channel I’d watch.
It's not a channel I'd watch either. But my wife likes relatively harmless low-impact movies and TV shows. She watched a ton of Hallmark Xmas movies last month. The sales rep I talked to mentioned something about the "HD Package", and thought that would solve the problem. But she checked and said that for some reason, I was not eligible for it. I sent them a letter Saturday outlining why I thought not including it was a mistake. If they want to switch people over from DISH, they need to offer apples/apples packages.
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