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Dish Drops Two Fox Channels

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Satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. is no longer carrying 21st Century Fox’s Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network after the companies couldn’t come to terms on a new distribution contract.
The channels went dark for Dish customers Saturday night, and there are currently no talks between the two companies, a senior Fox News executive said.


Dish Drops Two Fox Channels - WSJ

Not "breaking" news per se, but I have noticed Fox is now currently running commercials with Bill O'Reilly here (Seattle) claiming DTV is censoring what viewers are seeing. A total lie. Typical Fox Noise.
 
Lol, watching FOX News complain that another company is censoring them through business agreements is poetic justice. I think they're coming around to the idea that monopolies do exist in telecommunications and these monopolies already have the power to determine what one accesses on TV and the internet.... but I doubt it.
 
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.
 
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.

That's my problem with TV and Internet - it's so monopolized that they have no reason to make it customizable. I'm hopeful that if NN gets passed and streaming services continue to flood the market that TV and Internet sources will be forced via the market to make major changes.
 
That's my problem with TV and Internet - it's so monopolized that they have no reason to make it customizable. I'm hopeful that if NN gets passed and streaming services continue to flood the market that TV and Internet sources will be forced via the market to make major changes.

i'm hopeful that NN will get passed at all. all of the money is riding on the other option.
 
i'm hopeful that NN will get passed at all. all of the money is riding on the other option.

I was just reading about some new streaming options available. For instance, you're favorite channel ESPN is about to be offered via streaming entirely separate from a cable carrier. So you won't actually have to subscribe to cable TV to stream it. And then I read about a new streaming service that basically turns your TV into a desktop computer via thumb drive.

These things should excite me... but I am so scared that the mass exodus that is about to start happening from cable to TV is going to lead to major changes with how data is handled. And if the neocons buy into the "free market" option... ugh.
 
Dropping the highest rated cable news channel in the country sounds like a bad business strategy.
 
Looks like they are dropping ME TV too (Milllenium TV - oldies.)

Are they censoring what Baby Boomers are watching too? Is there an agenda behind that too?
 
Dropping the highest rated cable news channel in the country sounds like a bad business strategy.

They are fighting over money. Chances are, I would guess Dish is going to lose out on its desired amount and will have to settle for less.
 
I heard somebody at work complaining about this. Will be interesting to see if viewer demand will lead to a solution.
 
They've been running commercials here about Dish not carrying Fox for a few weeks but they aren't just being run on Fox. I have DirecTV and I'm glad.

In the end, Dish will cave I suspect.
 
They've been running commercials here about Dish not carrying Fox for a few weeks but they aren't just being run on Fox. I have DirecTV and I'm glad.

In the end, Dish will cave I suspect.

So Fox lying about it is ok with you?
 
So Fox lying about it is ok with you?

I don't really care. I haven't seen any of the commercials on Fox about it. It isn't important. I have been seeing commercials running on DirecTV for years bashing on Dish for limiting what their subscribers can see. This is no different.
 
They've been running commercials here about Dish not carrying Fox for a few weeks but they aren't just being run on Fox. I have DirecTV and I'm glad.

In the end, Dish will cave I suspect.
As a "cord cutter" I don't care. I can get all the pertinent details of 24/7 news channels on my ROKU box. By that I mean the two hours of "news" that the 24/7 news networks air and then repeat in two hour loops the rest of the day. Who needs DISH or Direct for that when I've got a ROKU box?
 
I don't really care. I haven't seen any of the commercials on Fox about it. It isn't important. I have been seeing commercials running on DirecTV for years bashing on Dish for limiting what their subscribers can see. This is no different.

Fox is accusing DTV of censoring them. It's a blatant bold faced lie.
 
As a "cord cutter" I don't care. I can get all the pertinent details of 24/7 news channels on my ROKU box. By that I mean the two hours of "news" that the 24/7 news networks air and then repeat in two hour loops the rest of the day. Who needs DISH or Direct for that when I've got a ROKU box?

No clue what a ROKU box is.

If DTV dropped Fox (or MSNBC or any of the others) I could get them in my car on Sirius XM but it isn't the same for me. I like my big screen telly and I like looking at Steve Hayes when he's on Fox. My husband would panic if he didn't get to see Kimberly Guilfoyle's legs too.
 
As a "cord cutter" I don't care. I can get all the pertinent details of 24/7 news channels on my ROKU box. By that I mean the two hours of "news" that the 24/7 news networks air and then repeat in two hour loops the rest of the day. Who needs DISH or Direct for that when I've got a ROKU box?

With live crises, I can especially see the need for live reporting, and where alternative methods still have much work to go to get it right.

C-SPAN is another problem. As it is the creation of cable companies (and distributed on satellite networks), the only existing legal means you have of getting it is through a legitimate subscription.

It's getting more persuasive to be a total cutter, but not yet.
 
No clue what a ROKU box is.

If DTV dropped Fox (or MSNBC or any of the others) I could get them in my car on Sirius XM but it isn't the same for me. I like my big screen telly and I like looking at Steve Hayes when he's on Fox. My husband would panic if he didn't get to see Kimberly Guilfoyle's legs too.
You have not heard of ROKU yet? Good. I'm always delighted when I can share some possibly money saving information. Here is the Wikipage for ROKU:
Roku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is ROKU's website:
https://www.roku.com/

Since TV sets are now being manufactured with built in streaming services like ROKU and Netflix? I'm not sure what their long term viability is but my family has made effective use of these devices for some time now. They pretty much started the "cord cutting" trend and I have saved thousands of dollars using the ROKU 2 and 3 models over the last few years. Fox and all the 24/7 cable news nets have a channel on ROKU. Now the news nets only place some of their daily content on their ROKU channels. Please trust me when I tell you that programming comes out to just a few hours of original content daily! The rest is simply running the same two hour news in a loop for the rest of the day and why pay for that?
 
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With live crises, I can especially see the need for live reporting, and where alternative methods still have much work to go to get it right.

C-SPAN is another problem. As it is the creation of cable companies (and distributed on satellite networks), the only existing legal means you have of getting it is through a legitimate subscription.

It's getting more persuasive to be a total cutter, but not yet.
I've been a cord cuter for several years, yet manage to remain marginally acquainted with what is in the news. Besides, I can get Fox News (the others too) on my free to air HD antenna. No need to do anything illegal. ;)
 
I've been a cord cuter for several years, yet manage to remain marginally acquainted with what is in the news. Besides, I can get Fox News (the others too) on my free to air HD antenna. No need to do anything illegal. ;)

Marginally acquainted doesn't quite interest me. In my area, without a subscription I could only get several stations (Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC were not among them).

That being said, I am quite pleased with my Roku 3 (minus the lack of C-SPAN).
 
Marginally acquainted doesn't quite interest me. In my area, without a subscription I could only get several stations (Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC were not among them).

That being said, I am quite pleased with my Roku 3 (minus the lack of C-SPAN).

Marginally acquainted doesn't quite interest this cord cutter either. ;)
C-SPAN Live Stream | C-SPAN.org
 
So you have no problem with a supposedly credible News Network lying their ass off? So integrity be damned?

Do you believe Bush 43 was AWOL from the TANG?
 
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