Fox News Goes Dark for Dish Network Subscribers

[Egnever]

Fox News, the most-watched U.S. cable news network, went off the air for Dish Network Corp. (DISH:US) subscribers after the parties failed to reach a new fee agreement.

Fox Business also went dark as the result of the latest dispute between programmers and Dish, which has 14 million subscribers. CBS Corp. (CBS:US) pulled its flagship network briefly from Dish on Dec. 5 before reaching a long-term accord restoring service a few hours later.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-21/fox-news-goes-dark-for-dish-network-subscribers

Hah!

The comments are awesome!

[newfie11]

1. I don't want that trash on my tv anyway

To bad it's back

[AndreaCG]

2. I can't figure out how to view the comments

Do you have to be registered with the site?

[oldandhappy]

29. You have to scroll on down past the ads at the bottom of the article.

Took me a minute, but yes, you can see without registering.

[AndreaCG]

36. K thanks

[LynneSin]

3. This might be like that Seinfeld episode where George couldn't have sex for 6 weeks

His girlfriend had mono so he had to go without. When George stopped having sex, his IQ shot thru the roof.

Think about what might happen to all those right-wing Dish Network owners......

[AndreaCG]

4. If Seinfeld was right

My IQ would be around 350 right now. And the pope's would be around 10,000. (I believe that man has kept his celibacy vows even though so many in the church haven't)

[malaise]

5. So Christmas has arrived for Dish subscribers

[GreatGazoo]

21. +1 Merry Christmas dish subscribers !

Now when in-laws come over and want Faux Dish subs have the perfect answer.

[JonLP24]

6. This is a common play by networks

When they think they are worth more than cable & satellite companies (usually the latter) than they are offering they'll do this. One or the other will either fall to the other's offer or demand or meet more in the middle.

When Directv announced they had no plans to carry the SEC Network -- the outrage, you wouldn't believe it which was encouraged by the SEC Network through social media to complain but they should have been more mad at the media consolidation taking place than providers.

[The Wielding Truth]

7. Lucky Dish Network Subscribers. I would like them off all tv's.

[Enthusiast]

8. Great comments. For now. They will be overwhelmed by sockpuppets any moment now.

I had Dish. I liked it much better than the Time Warner which I have now. But Dish was forever negotiating with the various networks. I lost The Big Ten Network for a time. Then I lost my local CBS affiliate.

But Time Warner is just flat out horrible. Apparently my community has a special agreement with Time Warner because they are our only cable choice. I bet that little agreement amounted to bribery.

I am familiar with Direct TV because family members have it. Direct might be my next option.

[7962]

14. Same where I live; no cable competition. So higher bills from Cox!

[L0oniX]

39. I dropped them because they charge extra for many local digital stations that are free.

[Cryptoad]

9. Buggy Whips,,,,,,,,,

[rpannier]

10. Some have all the luck. Some have all the breaks

[billhicks76]

11. Yay!!

No more corporate government media brainwashing on Dish. Well CNN still does but nothing in the scale of FOX. What's crazy to me are the sheep that defend FOX News.

[Fuddnik]

12. I hope DirecTV follows their lead.

[Thespian2]

13. In the Canadian Maritimes

We do not have Fuk news on our cable. It does come in on satellite from the US. The "Fuk" network north, Sun, lost its battle on the national level to be forcefully included on cable networks. Fortunately, the businesses here on PEI do not have Fuk on every moment of the day, so that one is not exposed to garbage while sitting in a waiting room.

One of the pluses of living in the Maritimes.

[HoosierCowboy]

15. Best News

Wonder if there's been some consumer pressure on Dish Network. Right now I usually get two mailings a week from Dish Network and if there was ever a prepaid return envelope they'd get a "Dump Fox News" message.

[Thor_MN]

16. There IS a Santa!!!

[mmonk]

17. My son John said it will help the gene pool.

[bluedigger]

25. Faux News viewers are past the reproductive phase of their lives.

[CincyDem]

27. That doesn't stop them from trying to f*ck up the country. n/t

[darkangel218]

18. LOL good. I hope they're gone forrver.

[Vinca]

19. The fewer people who watch Fox the better.

I only recently learned that Fox is a basic channel on most cable and satellite subscriptions. That explained the vast numbers of fools in this country . . . to a point.

[darkangel218]

20. I just checked to make sure theyre gone.

Glen Cryingbaby Beck took their place. Yikes

[ms liberty]

22. Mr liberty has it blocked at our house...

He was afraid he'd come home one day and find that I'd killed the teevee.

[BlueJazz]

23. You're right about the comments

"Doesn't matter. Fox News viewers were in the dark long before all this"

[randr]

24. Just in time for Christmas--What a great holiday gift

[liberal N proud]

26. That is great news

For those blocking a relief
For those who watched FOX on Dish, it is a salvation they do not yet know
For those fast food joints that Fox put TV'S in you might get my business again.

[spanone]

28. Great selling point for the Dish!!!!!

[wilt the stilt]

30. happy days are here again

just checked. what a Christmas gift.

[Ykcutnek]

31. Awesome Christmas gift. nt

[Horse with no Name]

32. and for a short while, there was quiet on the war front. There was no Benghazi, Obamacare,

or other specious propaganda permeating through the satellite dish to the thousands of little minions awaiting their orders of who to hate today. And maybe, just maybe, in their writhing agony...the minions would allow a speck of the truth to seep in.

All is good in the world today!

[Tsiyu]

33. Halleluiah! n/t

[nruthie]

34. Good. Who cares.

[Contrary1]

35. Looks like Megyn Kelly will have to take an ad out in the newspaper

to educate those viewers from Dish who missed her history lesson from last Christmas...both Jesus and Santa were white dudes.

[cascadiance]

37. Wow, I wonder why I didn't notice...

Now my receiver was flakey early this morning before it updated itself, showing guide info that it was on ESPN when it was actually showing BBCA channel content. Wonder if that was due to them chopping out Fox channels at that time.

But RWers don't depair! You still have Glen Beck on the Blaze on channel 212! I wouldn't notice if that got pulled either though.

Perhaps if they bring Faux back they take it off of the basic tier of channels and put it on a higher tier like a lot of cable systems do with MSNBC...

[L0oniX]

38. Happy happy joy joy...

[TNNurse]

40. I am a DISH customer

There is no available cable where we live.... too sparsely populated road. I would never have known that Fox "News" was not on if I had not read this. You can choose lists to show and it does not appear unless you go to the All Channels list.... it won't disappear, I tried. I also do not see any shopping or religious channels, it is quite a nice system for that.

[Dawson Leery]

41. Note to teakooks: This is the free market at work.

[Arkana]

42. In an unrelated story, Dish Network subscribers' collective IQ rises 50 points.