To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It's time to trade my DIRECT TV service for Echostar.
2 posted on
03/09/2004 11:36:03 AM PST by
mgist
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I have Dish. I say leave the Viacom channels off. They're filled with pretty much nothing but vile garbage anyway.
3 posted on
03/09/2004 11:37:34 AM PST by
B Knotts
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
4 posted on
03/09/2004 11:38:51 AM PST by
martin_fierro
("If there's one thing we actors know, it's ... er, what do we know again?")
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
No Mo' South Park,, That's about the extent of the damage here in Dishland
Go Charlie!!!
5 posted on
03/09/2004 11:40:16 AM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... Defeat the demRats in November!!! ... Beat BoXer!!!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"That's a shame" (/Seinfeld)
7 posted on
03/09/2004 11:40:37 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(You can see it coming like a train on a track.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Viacom said it was "dismayed and disappointed" by the action. They shouldnt be... they were demanding outrageous fees from Echostar.
8 posted on
03/09/2004 11:43:29 AM PST by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I'd drop CBS just for the sheer fun if the decision were up to me.
14 posted on
03/09/2004 11:50:16 AM PST by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
27 posted on
03/09/2004 1:52:42 PM PST by
Joe Boucher
(G.W. Bush in 2004)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Reminds me of a moment in The Cable Guy when people started picking up books.
28 posted on
03/09/2004 1:53:46 PM PST by
Monty22
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