[Vision2020] DISH Network Drops Court TV???

[Saundra Lund]

Thanks, Chas, for that info, especially the link to The Hollywood Reporter
article.  It was interesting to me to see the different spin each side has
put on things, just as was done with  the whole KAYU-FOX Time Warner battle
. . . and how consumers are being sucked into taking sides rather than
advocating for their own best interests.

On the plus side, the surfing I did on the user groups showed a whole lot of
DISH subscribers unhappy.  What I'd love to see consumers do is band
*together* to pressure providers to give consumers what we want *and*
deserve -- a la carte programming as advocated by Senator John McCain, among
others -- rather than jumping from one ship to the other!


Thanks Again,
Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chasuk [mailto:chasuk at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:46 PM
To: Saundra Lund
Cc: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] DISH Network Drops Court TV???

On 1/4/07, Saundra Lund <sslund at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Man, if I'd have switched to from Time Warner to DISH to keep KAYU and 
> was now losing Court TV, I'd be *real* p*ss*d  :-(

>From Wikipedia:

"To begin 2007, retransmission consent issues forced CourtTV off Dish
Network systems; ironically, despite the fact that Court TV took their
signal off Dish Network [2], commercials airing on sister networks CNN and
CNN Headline News (under a courtroom-like "stand up and object"
theme) portray the situation as Dish pulling the signal off their system,
pressuring viewers to have Dish Network put the channel back on their
system, without stating anything about the retransmission rates."

And, a link from The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_i
d=1003526304&imw=Y