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Dish may permanently ax CNN from lineup

chessylady — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:17:47 GMT

This was on the business page of my local newspaper. This includes Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies. Thank goodness I never watched those networks. I switched from Comcast this summer and am otherwise satisfied with Dish. Their customer service is 100% better than Comcast. I still have Comcast Internet. By the way, DirectTV is still negotiating with AMC and have told subscribers that they may lose access to Walking Dead next year. The Dish executive said they are facing fierce competition from Internet streaming.

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Puzzle Piece — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:28:09 GMT

Thanks for the info. Currently I don't know what I've got as my husband changes things from month to month depending on the savings incentives. I like Turner Classic and sometimes watch an old film. I don't watch the Walking Dead.

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Lion — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:58:32 GMT

I don't have Dish, but we've been through this fighting between cable/satellite and channels over pricing.

This "You're going to lose it permanently." is just a ploy in the fight to get customers riled up and angry at the other side.

They want you to believe it's the other side that's being greedy and it's not their fault. They don't want you to get mad at them and change providers.

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okiebug — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:06:40 GMT

The same thing happened with Directv and The Weather Channel earlier this year. Directv actually took The Weather Channel off air for a couple of months and replaced it with the lame Weather Nation. The Weather Channel is back on, Directv lost a lot of customers in the process - we actually got a Weather Channel baseball cap and thank you card from The Weather Channel because we signed the petition to have it returned, so obviously The Weather Channel won the battle.

It's all a big show - Dish is trying to get a better deal from CNN and trying to say it's for the benefit of their customers. No TV provider is going to stop broadcasting major channels like CNN.

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brii — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:10:09 GMT

It's been off for a couple of weeks. I never watch it and I don't miss it. They should lower our rate and drop them permanently.

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croemer — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:11:44 GMT

On 11/6/2014 brii said: It's been off for a couple of weeks. I never watch it and I don't miss it. They should lower our rate and drop them permanently.

I would go for that.

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minkbunny — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:31:28 GMT

We have Dish and I couldn't even tell you what channel CNN is, nor the other channels mentioned.

Don't and won't miss them.

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brewhaha — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:18:03 GMT

No biggie

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hyacinth bucket1 — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:58:55 GMT

I never watch that rubbish CNN, so I don't care about that , however, my 90 year old mother is missing TCM.

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hyacinth bucket1 — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:00:01 GMT

I never watch that rubbish CNN, so I don't care about that , however, my 90 year old mother is missing TCM.

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sylviahomeatlast — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:30:26 GMT

I like turner classic movies but I never watch CNN--bad network

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Lion — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:51:38 GMT

I'd pay my provider to remove FN.

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kdgn — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:54:14 GMT

Those of you who never watch CNN are missing out on Mike Rowe's new show- Somebody's gotta do it.

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hckynut — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:42:24 GMT

On 11/6/2014 chessylady said: This was on the business page of my local newspaper. This includes Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies. Thank goodness I never watched those networks. I switched from Comcast this summer and am otherwise satisfied with Dish. Their customer service is 100% better than Comcast. I still have Comcast Internet. By the way, DirectTV is still negotiating with AMC and have told subscribers that they may lose access to Walking Dead next year. The Dish executive said they are facing fierce competition from Internet streaming.

Dish may permanently ax CNN from lineup

We have Dish Network and rarely watch anything on CNN so for us it would not be a big loss. Dish is still in negotiations with Turner, at least I think they are at this time. We lost some channels that I did use our DVR, but none that really bother me too much.

The only one that still ticks me off is taking of the Madison Square Garden Network(MSG) about 3 years ago. That is my hockey teams network and where they have a lot of shows I like to DVR, plus I got to watch home team announcers call their hockey games.

With the Center Ice Package, we do get to see all the hockey games, but every single on of my New York Rangers teams games are broadcast and play by play by the other teams announcers. Some call them pretty good, but others not only display their bias towards their team, but worst of all. Some of them do not even know the names of the players on the Rangers team, and that really gets smoke coming out my ears.

I've done some play by play calling of hockey games and in many of them I did not see the visiting teams roster until about a half hour before the game started. Even with my brain I was able to remember most of their names via their team numbers, and many of them I could remember by the way they skated.

The more that is getting streamed to tv audiences the more these contract disputes are going to come into play. I see it getting worse if anything than it is right now.

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terrier3 — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:50:38 GMT

It also includes TBS and HLN.

TBS is the biggest and most watched of all the Time Warner networks.

I wonder why they ""forgot"" to mention TBS (and all the basketball and baseball games (especially playoff games) on that network).

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Witchy Woman — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:49:28 GMT

So, what is the solution? If they would just offer a per channel purchase, it would be easier to get what you want.

Trying to figure out a package that includes the few channels I watch is like trying to translate a foreign language. So many things I don't care about and the few that I do are now in question for returning.

I'm ready to unplug!

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reese2 — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:07:42 GMT

On 11/7/2014 terrier3 said:
It also includes TBS and HLN.

TBS is the biggest and most watched of all the Time Warner networks.

I wonder why they "forgot" to mention TBS (and all the basketball and baseball games (especially playoff games) on that network).

We have Dish and still have TBS. We don't have CNN, TCM or HLN. There may be others I'm forgetting.

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patbz — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:27:27 GMT

Our family does watch CNN so I did a chat with Dish yesterday got the drivel about ""for the good of all of us""but they are reducing my bill $5 month for 3 months (they will get another call or I'll change to Dish).

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gazelle77 — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:30:26 GMT

no loss as I can see.

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Shelbelle — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:11:01 GMT

I would be missing TCM terribly, love those old black and whites.