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Dish Drops Two Fox Channels

Ah I see, O'Reilly said DISH is censoring your news, NOT censoring FOX news, and he also provided context. Any normal thinking individual wouldn't construe what he said as a lie. You sound foolish for saying so..


Tim-

It never ceases to amaze me that some people will embarrass themselves to defend something so obvious to the average person. :lamo
 
What of these companies starting to come out with 10gbps connections? They are expensive for now, sure, but one could expect the price to drop. Are we not assuming that bandwidth is going to continue growing at a rate to keep up with demand?

(Thanks for the info, FYI. It's rare to discuss with someone who is really knowledgeable on a subject)

Bandwidth will continue growing but the throughput you buy is not guaranteed or constant. If they sell 10gb home service then they expect you to use, on average, less than 100mbps.
 
Whatever. Thankfully Dish network is losing subscribers by the tens of thousands.:lamo

Why thankfully? Competition keeps satellite TV rates down. You should want more competition, not less.
 
All because they could not make a deal, this has nothing to do with censorship.

Direct TV is making deals. Comcast is making deals. All other major carriers are making deals. When you offer service all across the nation, if you cannot carry all of the major cable news channels, you do not need to be in business. Dish TV is losing it's ass over this. Whether you like Fox News or not, it is the number one 24 hour cable news network. Dish can make a deal. They are losing enough subscribers to pay the difference.
 
Direct TV is making deals. Comcast is making deals. All other major carriers are making deals. When you offer service all across the nation, if you cannot carry all of the major cable news channels, you do not need to be in business. Dish TV is losing it's ass over this. Whether you like Fox News or not, it is the number one 24 hour cable news network. Dish can make a deal. They are losing enough subscribers to pay the difference.

Nothing I said is in disagreement with the above, what I said was they could not make a deal. Dish or FoxNews (or the both of them together) being idiots trying to make a deal *still* does not equate to censorship.
 
Nothing I said is in disagreement with the above, what I said was they could not make a deal. Dish or FoxNews (or the both of them together) being idiots trying to make a deal *still* does not equate to censorship.

Fox is now back on Dish Network. However they probably will not get many back the tens of thousands of subscribers they lost to Direct TV. When I dropped Mediacom cable a couple months back, I considered Dish Network. I am glad I chose Direct TV instead.
 
Fox is now back on Dish Network. However they probably will not get many back the tens of thousands of subscribers they lost to Direct TV. When I dropped Mediacom cable a couple months back, I considered Dish Network. I am glad I chose Direct TV instead.

... and it still does not equate to censorship.
 
i'd like for comcast to lose fox, msnbc, and espn. i have no use for any of those channels. at the very least, give me the option to stop buying them.

Here is the crazy thing. $5 of every cable subscription goes to ESPN each month. Seems like it should be an premium channel at that price.
 
No....just a lack of common sense on Dish Network's part.

Well, if Fox is trying to give them a raw deal, then if I were Dish I wouldn't just let them. Why should Dish cave?
 
Well, if Fox is trying to give them a raw deal, then if I were Dish I wouldn't just let them. Why should Dish cave?

Hate to be the one to break it to you...but Dish did cave. :lamo
 
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