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Viacom Channels Risk DirecTV Blackout at Midnight Tuesday .
WSJ.com ^
| July 10, 2012
| William Launder
Posted on 07/10/2012 11:17:17 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I read up on some of this (I have direcTV). Looks like direcTV wants to keep paying the same seven year old rate, when all the other carriers are paying more. They characterize it as Viacom wanting to raise the subscriber's rates 30%. Sorry, direcTV. If my rates get raised, it will be direcTV's fault - they're the ones I pay, not viacom.
My kids will miss Nick stuff, but I don't watch much stuff anyway; some ION, NHLN, ID, etc. I emailed directv and told them if they drop viacom, I'd better see a rate decrease or they're history.
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posted on
07/10/2012 12:31:50 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(Welcome to the United Socialist States of America)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I like DirecTV BUT I resent having to pay for all the channels that I do not want to watch in order to get the 10 - 12 that I do want to watch The business model of the 'cable' industry SUCKS!
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Viacom dios!
I always wanted to do that...
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posted on
07/10/2012 1:04:35 PM PDT
by
Ol' Sox
To: Spktyr
I wish channels were offered al a carte. I would only pay for a few dozen, rather than 100. If there were enough like met the lefty channels would file for bankruptcy.
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posted on
07/10/2012 1:28:35 PM PDT
by
Voltage
To: Sporke
It’s funny, there was more to watch when I only got 3 channels.
I remember when cable TV started spreading across the country and saying to myself - I'll NEVER pay for TV. LOL ...
The only redeeming value of Ted Turner's sorry, left wing, commie-loving, whacko life is TCM.
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posted on
07/10/2012 1:43:44 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: dfwgator; Sporke
there was more to watch when I only got 3 channels. You guys must not watch sports or biz channels on cable.
To: Buckeye McFrog
"There is an episode of the original Star Trek where Mr. Spock reveals that the medium known as television “did not survive much beyond the start of the 21st. Century”.Phasers on stuned!
To: IYAS9YAS
Direct and Viacom are still running notices that it’s not a done deal. Viacom’s notice has it at 25 channels.
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posted on
07/10/2012 5:55:06 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
It's almost funny now now with both Direct TV and Viacom running dueling crawlers on the subject stations. The messages blame each other.
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posted on
07/10/2012 8:37:29 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
And why is this bad? Who watches these bad channels?
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posted on
07/10/2012 8:45:34 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
You can watch the vast majority of those programs online.
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posted on
07/10/2012 8:46:56 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
To: Fledermaus
DirectTV now shows something called a mix channel on all of those former Viacom stations.
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posted on
07/10/2012 11:50:23 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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