So due to Ted Turner, for 2 weeks before the election Dish subscribers have only FoxNews

[librechik]

There is a money dispute between Turner and Dish, so Dish yanked a few Turner networks and is blaming it on that liberal Ted. A couple of years ago Dish had a similar problem with AMC, and therefor Breaking Bad and Walking Dead disappeared for at least a year, as I recall.

TNT is still in the lineup, so it seems CNN, Headline News, and TruTV are gone for the duration. Nice Timing.

If you pay for upper tier, you can get MSNBC and Al J. But if you have the first couple of basic tiers there is only Murdochnews and it's billions of paid political ads before the midterms.

Coincidence?

[shenmue]

1. Sometimes people forget, Turner's a Republican

It was his wife who wasn't.

[librechik]

2. yes Turner is still a pariah to the Repubs due to Hanoi Jane.

they never stop flogging all the horses they've flogged to death.

[sharp_stick]

3. Turner is owned by Time Warner

Like CNN, Ted Turner hasn't had an interest in it for years now.

From Wikipedia:
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. merged with Time Warner, Inc. on October 10, 1996, with Turner as vice chairman and head of Time Warner and Turner's cable networks division.[17] Turner was dropped as head of cable networks by CEO Gerald Levin but remained as Vice Chairman of Time Warner. He resigned as Time Warner vice chairman in 2003 and then from the board of directors in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner

[UTUSN]

5. Yip, it's not Ted. Also, Direct is now haggling with AMC. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. And that is why we now have Al Jazeera in East Texas on DISH!!

I am thoroughly amused.

Capitalist greed through Turner has done what I bet the DISH people would not have done on their own.

[librechik]

8. snicker--yeah it's been great!! they've been covering the midterms like white on rice!

luv it! and CNN blew chunks! I'm just saying their veil blew off.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. But "Dish Stands For You"!

I plan on calling them to see if they are going to give us a credit for those channels while they're gone. Oh, and then our monthly bill just went up a few bucks to boot.

[SheilaT]

7. If you have access to the internets tomorrow,

all of the networks should be live streaming the election results.

I don't even own a TV, and I watch stuff like that on my computer. Also, with any sort of major breaking story, if CNN doesn't go to live streaming, the local TV stations generally will, and depending on what's happening, the local station may have better coverage.

[librechik]

9. yes only the blind and elderly will be hurt

it's just a small part of the juggernaut of suppression and misinformation we endure everyday.

[hobbit709]

10. Ted has nothing to do with his former companies.

[librechik]

12. Dish has been using Turner rather than Time Warner on their guide.

I wonder why?

[Beaverhausen]

15. Turner as a company still exists. It is owned by Time Warner

[librechik]

11. I'm now told Dish is airing MSNBC in place of CNN. I did not know that.

Never mind!

[locks]

13. I was in San Francisco and northern CA a few days ago

and was surprised at hotels where I was staying that when I clicked the CNN channel it went to MSNBC. I didn't know what had happened; a line on the TV said "Turner has removed CNN from DISH" so I checked it out online. I think this is a terrible time to lose CNN especially for travelers and progressive Californians.

In Colorado I had to lose Al Jazeera because Comcast upped my bill so high I couldn't keep that tier. I'm continually amazed at the power media corporations with their obscene profits have over what we can see and hear. It doesn't seem much different than North Korea and Russia.

[madfloridian]

14. Dish is carrying MSNBC in place of CNN. AND in its regular spot.

So that part is good.

[Beaverhausen]

16. Dish carries Free Speech TV

[LordGlenconner]

17. If this was 1983 you'd have a point

But alas, he sold the network many moons ago.

[liberalhistorian]

18. We have DISH and we have MSNBC

but not Al-Jazeera. I have my issues with CNN, but I did watch it not infrequently, especially during the weekends when MSNBC doesn't have any news after 2 p.m. or so but only that stupid bullshit prison porn "lockup" and now "sex slaves of fill-in-the-city" and that kind of bullshit. These past couple weeks have been really irritating and frustrating and I've called DISH several times to complain and ask what the fuck I'm paying their premiums for if I can't even have decent news. I almost feel sorry for the one poor schlub who said in response that "well, you do have FOX News as well as MSNBC, don't you"; my rant in response may have traumatized her.

But now you've made me think about the possible ulterior motives behind this shit and now I'm gonna call them and directly ask that very question. And no, where I live, if I want TV, the only option is DISH. We live on an Indian reservation in SD and the tribe discontinued its cable last year, before we moved to this particular reservation (the reservation we previously lived on had cable). So Dish is really the only option, which pisses me off.