Monday
3/09/04
Echostar and Viacom. Nitwits.
Just a note for all you digital junkies out there… If you have Dish Network you may have noticed over the last few days that under a few of the channels there was a ticker running that rambled on about Echostar wanting to take away channels such as Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
It seems that Echostar and Viacom are in the midst of a pissing match over rate hikes and programming, and as of this morning all those Viacom owned channels have indeed been pulled. Even more annoying, while futzing around on the web last night, I found very little mention about and almost no objective news on the whole thing.
But, as they often are, a couple of blogs were already all over the issue like hair on an ape, which is where I found the first of these two stories. (Thanks to Cap’n Arbyte, who doesn’t seem to miss anything anywhere. Ooh, and even better yet, this story from Motely Fool is typical of their lucid style.)
Me? I just called Direct TV. Heck, I’ll even finally get the Yankees.
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Echostar and Viacom. Nitwits.
Just a note for all you digital junkies out there… If you have Dish Network you may have noticed over the last few days that under a few of the channels there was a ticker running that rambled on about Echostar wanting to take away channels such as Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
It seems that Echostar and Viacom are in the midst of a pissing match over rate hikes and programming, and as of this morning all those Viacom owned channels have indeed been pulled. Even more annoying, while futzing around on the web last night, I found very little mention about and almost no objective news on the whole thing.
But, as they often are, a couple of blogs were already all over the issue like hair on an ape, which is where I found the first of these two stories. (Thanks to Cap’n Arbyte, who doesn’t seem to miss anything anywhere. Ooh, and even better yet, this story from Motely Fool is typical of their lucid style.)
Me? I just called Direct TV. Heck, I’ll even finally get the Yankees.
