VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels

[mperdue]

Dear God! Why!!!!!!!!

One might ask you the same question. Can't you figure out that the messages in this forum won't interest you?

[riffjim4069]

I still miss VOOM...and I am still hoping to see some of the VOOM channels appear on FiOS TV in the near future.

[Bruuce]

I patiently play the waiting game, seeing as I'm stuck in a two year contract with Dish. But I'll be honest, I doubt I see Voom return to a different national pay TV provider before that time is up.

[tlee]

I still miss VOOM, too. It was the most significant product that distinguished Dish from Direct.

[MRUSS]

I think I miss RAVE the most, but would still like to have some of the other channels. I don't think about it much because it just makes me sad we lost them. I think dish really had something here if they would just advertised them a little more.

[Yes616]

I think I miss RAVE the most, but would still like to have some of the other channels. I don't think about it much because it just makes me sad we lost them. I think dish really had something here if they would just advertised them a little more.

Yesterday my inlaws were over for a visit. They have Cablevision with HD so they have Voom.

It seems MonstersHD is just about the most watched channel in the house. AnimainiaHD, VoomHD Movies, GameplayHD, RaveHD and RushHD are watched fairly often as well.

So much for Dish's claim of "channels you never heard of". They are in fact very popular to those who can get them.

[geonaz]

I miss Voom and I miss Nehru jackets and I miss Leisure Suits. I don't think I will get either of them back on Dish. Why don't we just let them die and cherish their memory?

[ekilgus]

I miss Voom and I miss Nehru jackets and I miss Leisure Suits. I don't think I will get either of them back on Dish. Why don't we just let them die and cherish their memory?

Apparently VOOM is not about to die since all of those predictions of VOOM's demise once they've been removed from Dish seem to have been greatly exaggerated. having said that I now feel VOOM will reappear at some point in the future. However, when and where VOOM shows up and in what manifestation is anybody's guess.

[FitzAusTex]

I still desperately miss Voom. TV has not been the same for me since E* removed it.

and I frackin HATE commercials. Hate, hate, hate...

[VaberMan]

Dolan: ‘Cablevision not for sale’
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Chris Forrester, on 21-09-2008
Speaking at last week’s Goldman Sachs “Communicopia” media conference, Cablevision CEO James Dolan said he no longer expected to be looking to sell the company’s cable networks. This is a u-turn on market comments barely a month ago, and reflected current market conditions. However, that decision does not apply to Rainbow’s VOOM HDTV division.

Referring specifically to Voom, Dolan said Cablevision, the USA’s fifth largest MSO which is widely available in and around New York and the North East of the USA, continued to mull its options for the future of the HDTV cluster of channels. Voom is busy rolling out services overseas at an impressive rate, but is now only available at home to Cablevision viewers, having lost carriage on Echostar’s DISH Network.

Dolan was asked if his family could try to take Cablevision private again after previous failed attempts. "I would never completely rule it out, but at this time it's not really on our radar," Dolan added, saying that his top priority amid the market turmoil is to manage the company's debt. "Today I think you need to be concerned about your debt first," he told conference delegates. ”The shutdown of the credit markets makes the purchase of assets and the sale of assets less likely,” suggesting that the first set of assets to be sold would be the firm’s movie theatres.

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