[mgist]

It's time to trade my DIRECT TV service for Echostar.

[B Knotts]

I have Dish. I say leave the Viacom channels off. They're filled with pretty much nothing but vile garbage anyway.

[martin_fierro]

Echostar Communications Corp. on Tuesday dropped local CBS stations from its satellite service in 16 cities and dropped MTV, Nickelodeon and other cable channels nationwide after contract talks with Viacom Inc. broke down. The impasse left an estimated 1.6 million people without CBS network television in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Miami the week before the CBS broadcast of the NCAA basketball tournament. It leaves another 9.5 million nationwide without 10 Viacom channels....
Echostar shares were up 2.4 percent in early afternoon trading, while Viacom shares were down 0.9 percent.

'Nuff said.

[NormsRevenge]

No Mo' South Park,, That's about the extent of the damage here in Dishland

Go Charlie!!!

[ClearCase_guy]

"That's a shame" (/Seinfeld)

[Lunatic Fringe]

Viacom said it was "dismayed and disappointed" by the action.

They shouldnt be... they were demanding outrageous fees from Echostar.

[lilylangtree]

I'd drop CBS just for the sheer fun if the decision were up to me.

[humptydumpty]

How bout this - Demand refund for the $ you pay to Dish for local channels and CBS. that ought to get their attention. THEY ( Dish) broke the contract not us !!
Hello cable , Hello Direct TV.

[Joe Boucher]

Any way you get that takes danny boy rather off the air is a good thing.
The C.B.S. News is as one sided and pathetic as it gets. No wonder FOX with at least a semblence of balanced reporting is in the assension, while c.b.s. is sucking eggs.

[Monty22]

Reminds me of a moment in The Cable Guy when people started picking up books.