Do you guys have digital cable in your area?
I went to Viacom’s website and they claim the cost to the consumer would be just a few cents per subscriber per channel while CEO Charlie (worst idea for a kids’ show host) claims the cost to be in the hundreds of millions over the life of the contract.
Look, you fucking arrogant dickheads, I’m missing The Daily Show and Chappelle’s Show and possibly the 8th season premiere of South Park because of you greedy bastards.
We’re gonna lock you fuckers in a very small room with a TV that can only play Full House repeats at full volume until you work out an agreement.
Don’t just stand there, assholes, get to it!
I’ve had Dish for about 3 years, and I’m done. We already lived through a dispute with a local NBC affiliate, KRON, which resulted in our not having NBC for months. I am not going through that again.
Stick a fork in me, I’m done. I’ve ordered DirecTV. Bye, Charlie.
Ah, so comedy central is putting the crawl there? i thought insight communications (my cable company) was putting it there to denounce the competetion, a “look how selfish our competitors are” type of thing.
Get cable or directv new episodes of south park start wednesday after this.
Oh, In a HEARTBEAT!!
Only trouble is, we live in planet hee haw, and cable isn’t available out here (over an hour from Dallas).
We also have to use dialup (shudder).
Yeah, a few of my favorite shows got axed too thanks to this stupid fiasco. Regular network stations too!!! What the ???
ARRRRGGGGGGHH!!!
Did you write and call the people that Dish suggested we write and call??? I haven’t yet, but certainly will.
Not sure it will help, but hey, you miss 100% of the shots you DON’T take right?
This is MY ROOM. People enter here only on my sufferance. I am a very solitary person, and I need lots of alone time, and I get very cranky if I don’t get it. I do not like most of my husband’s favorite shows, and I certainly don’t want to listen to them while I’m trying to moderate this message board. He LIKES Full House. And he WILL watch any episode of MAS*H that happens to be playing, no matter how many times he’s seen it before. Me, I think they lose their humor after the 50th watching, but not him.
This room is the reason we’re still married.
I won’t charge him money…probably. But chocolates? Very possibly. There’s also services like massages, and holding the cat while I clip her claws, and exfoliating my back, among other tolls/forfeits.
When I have to pay a forfeit, it usually involves cooking a complicated dish, which he enjoys but which I find to be too much trouble to make in the usual daily routine.
Also, I will charge him a toll simply because I CAN, and because I have to live up to my reputation (first gained 20 years ago in Las Vegas) as “that hardass bitch”.
Usually I have a knife in my hand. Aren’t you sorry you said anything? 
I just noticed this last night; Dish Network was telling us to call Viacom to complain. Funny how Viacom was telling everyone to call Dish Network to complain.
Dish Network says their contract was up and that Viacom was raising their prices, which would cause Dish to then raise theirs. I thought, “can’t you just eat the extra cost while you negotiate? Shift around some money somewhere, put in a hidden charge that we’d never even notice?”
Of course not…
Now, if Sci-fi Channel goes, I’ll be really steamed.
What makes you say that? if you are new to directv good deals are not hard to find. I was listening to the radio yesterday and there was a directv ad offering 1 Tivo, 4 recievers, a dish and installation for $1.
http://www.rapidsatellite.com/default3.aspx
http://www.rapidsatellite.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=24
the prices on a TiVo system for a new subscriber are pretty low. I have no idea what the catches are though. i assume its just be a new subscriber for 1 year type of thing.
We’re all sorry, Ms. Bobbitt.
Everybody–slowly back away. Make no sudden moves!
Digital Cable sucks my ass. Twice as expensive for the same thing you get on DirecTV. And I still lose fucking reception.
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Also, I will charge him a toll simply because I CAN, and because I have to live up to my reputation (first gained 20 years ago in Las Vegas) as “that hardass bitch”.
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No kidding.
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I’m on Dish’s side in this. They don’t want to pay the increased fees, because they would have to pass the increase onto their customers to maintain their profit. And believe it or not, profit is not a bad word.
I hardly watch the blocked channels, and we have cable in the bedroom, so the kids can watch Nick in there if they absolutely have to.
Well, what the hell is going on now?
Had a bad night and couldn’t sleep, so after finishing the book I was reading, I decided to turn on the TV. I checked in on Comedy Central, and at 12:10 AM PST, they were broadcasting Dilbert, followed by the “Sorry, not broadcasting this channel” show for the next few hours. Then around 2:00 they had an hour of “Paid Programming”, followed by more of the “Sorry” show. Anybody know what this is all about?
Heard on morning radio just a few minutes ago that this issue was resolved. No other details, sorry.
In case anyone cares, Chappell’s show sucked last night anyway. 
Thanks, Revtim. Mr. singular just called with the good news from CNN. Now we all get a free pay-per-view, and my hackles can settle back down again!
I was watching the CharlieChat on 101 last night, and he said, among other things:
Viacom wanted a 40% increase in fees.
They wanted to tear up existing deals for CMT, Spike, and TVLand and redo them under the increased fees plan.
They wanted Dish to add new channels, like NickToons.
And finally, it was either agree to the deal or no Super Bowl.
If this is true, then I also would have told Viacom to get stuffed.
I’m still dumping Dish. I’m glad for all the other subscribers who get thier channels back, but I’ve seen the light of DirecTV – more choices, better hardware selection, and (so far) no screwed-up outages (this is the second one I’ve been through with Dish, we lost NBC for months last year).
There’s a story here, isn’t there? There’s gotta be.