Dish dropping channel 9 and 20?

[Adawg38]

Saw a message earlier Dish might also be dropping channel 9 and 20 Sunday night at midnight? WTF? On top of NO Walking Dead now no Sunday Night Football. SOB!

[Ridge]

I seriously doubt DISH would drop two local channels.

[GilpinGuy]

I know there was a recent thread about DISH vs. DirecTV. I had DISH for a few years and ended up dumping them for shitty service, attitude on the phone when I had a problem (which was often) and never-ending increases in prices. Every few months it went up.

I dumped their ass and went TV free for a few years, so maybe they got better since then. I don't know.

Now I have 2 kids in the house and TV is almost a prerequisite. I went with DirecTV and have had ZERO problems and no rate increases in 5 years. ZERO problems. And no channels went away either, despite some threats from some networks.

Let the flaming begin.

[AR_ART]

The deal is over Dish's Hopper. It allows you to skip commercials. Gannett which broadcasts on channel 9 and 20 wants Dish to run the commercials cause Gannett gets paid to do so.

Dish wants to offer Gannett "X" number of dollars to have the user skip commercials. They can't agree on that number.

Personally I hate Dish. Worked in their IT dept. A TOTAL sweatshop. Worse place I've ever worked as a professional.

[JohnTRourke]

free yourself
turn off your TV

[StagLefty]

I was pissed when they dropped AMC. If they drop 9 & 20 that will be it for me. I'll go regular TV with Netflix and Hulu +.

[Ridge]

Personally I hate Dish. Worked in their IT dept. A TOTAL sweatshop. Worse place I've ever worked as a professional.

My buddy Joe works in tech support there. He seems to enjoy it. I almost got a job there earlier this year.

[Watermagnet]

[quote=GilpinGuy;664003]I know there was a recent thread about DISH vs. DirecTV. I had DISH for a few years and ended up dumping them for shitty service, attitude on the phone when I had a problem (which was often) and never-ending increases in prices. Every few months it went up.

Lol...This ^^^ is my EXACT experience with Directv. Switched to DISH and my bill is almost exactly half of what it was with Directv for (basically) the same channels. I'm sure in two years I'll be right back where I was before. I think they both suck.

[Ripper]

Also the company that owns 9 is asking for a 300% rate increase for programming.

[StagLefty]

Also the company that owns 9 is asking for a 300% rate increase for programming.

http://www.9news.com/life/programming/dish.aspx