DISH Network Charges Forward With Another Round of National HD Channel Launches

**bruin95** · 05-12-2008 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by Lkr

SWEEETT!!!! can't wait for CNN HD though hehe

Dude, that channel launched a few weeks ago.

**tawhite** · 05-12-2008 02:09 AM

Um, that's probably why he added the "hehe" at the end.

**Doppy** · 05-12-2008 02:39 AM

clap clap:

Thank you Dish, finally some new HD channels. There are some good ones in there.

And now for a surpring statement. Dish actually now has MORE HD channels than DirecTV. DirecTV has 18 national channels Dish doesn't and Dish has 20 national channels DirecTV doesn't. 15 are VOOM and the other 5 are Travel, 5-Star Max, ABC Family, Hallmark Movie Channel, and WFN.

**kstuart** · 05-12-2008 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by Doppy

clap clap:

Thank you Dish, finally some new HD channels. There are some good ones in there.

And now for a surpring statement. Dish actually now has MORE HD channels than DirecTV. DirecTV has 18 national channels Dish doesn't and Dish has 20 national channels DirecTV doesn't. 15 are VOOM and the other 5 are Travel, 5-Star Max, ABC Family, Hallmark Movie Channel, and WFN.

And that means that Dish has way more HD programming than DirecTV, since most of the those 18 national channels have little or no HD programming (eg MTV and VH-1).

**kstuart** · 05-12-2008 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by jansan

I wished that Dish could have launched couple of channels a week over the past few weeks (I'll take the 19 channels in a day, anyday!). They could have had several positive press releases in the market.

I talked about this in a different thread.

If Dish adds two channels twice a month, then each time, the reaction is:

" Just two channels ... DirecTV already has those channels ... DirecTV still has way more HD channels. "

So they don't get any competitive advantage or buzz by adding them one by one.

**sampatterson** · 05-12-2008 03:54 AM

Yahoooo - the World Fishing Network in HD!!!!

Thanks Dish for all the additions! Very nice!

**sampatterson** · 05-12-2008 03:55 AM

Nice one Dish!

**sampatterson** · 05-12-2008 03:55 AM

I mean nice 22 Dish!

**Hemi 6.1** · 05-12-2008 06:33 AM

Good 5 Star max ,ABC Family and Travel channel. Been waiting for those.

**Rangers484** · 05-12-2008 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

It says they all of them (except the two RSN's) will launch on Monday. I am told by Dish that they will be on by 5pm ET tomorrow.

The press release does not literally say they will all launch Monday. It says they will launch beginning Monday with the 2 RSNs * for a Wednesday launch but never specifies when the launching will end. It is easy to infer they mean Monday but the word "beginning" is a qualifier.

There is just enough ambiguity to be able to back peddle if something goes wrong. If they wanted to be definitive the would have left out the word "beginning".

Call me a skeptic but Dish has failed to come through too many times the past 9 months.

When 5pm rolls around and I have 17 more nationals I will finally believe it. I expect a low productivity day at work with many hits on the refresh button....

At 7pm, expect posts to begin about when we can expect to see channel x or channel y.