Smithsonian HD dropped and replaced with Crime & Investigation HD

**Hemi 6.1** · 02-01-2009 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by rich88

Fine, but what good does it do to bitch at people who have absolutely no FREAKING control over this?.

Sure they do . They gave me $60. Give me a CEO Phone number. and not just an Email address. If I can't talk directly to them ,well thats not good enough.

**jself1982** · 02-01-2009 11:35 AM

Good ole' Dish Network, can't add HD without taking another HD channel away.

**Bradp56** · 02-01-2009 11:41 AM

Hopefully they will drop the fishing channel and replace it too.

**eddie willers** · 02-01-2009 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Bradp56

Hopefully they will drop the fishing channel and replace it too.

Oh great......then we'll have another bitching thread.

**JrC** · 02-01-2009 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Hemi 6.1

Smithsonian had low ratings so to save on cost it got dropped.
So I said rating would have been much Higher if it didn't cost the customer $20 to view it. Then it was kind of quiet. This is the supervisor now too.

This is what they said when the Voom channels were dropped. Who provides input on ratings? Have you ever been asked by Dish Network to rate programming?

**JonE** · 02-01-2009 11:45 AM

No Fios, DIRECTV will probably pull the same thing with another favorite channel (plus all the sports packages I don't want or need), and Comcast stinks. Maybe Apple TV once I have the money.

**HDRoberts** · 02-01-2009 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by JrC

This is what they said when the Voom channels were dropped. Who provides input on ratings? Have you ever been asked by Dish Network to rate programming?

Pretty sure our boxes can keep track without asking us.

**jacmyoung** · 02-01-2009 11:55 AM

While I no longer watch SmithHD anymore on DirecTV because of all the repeats, I must agree removing it without any notification or explanation has no excuse, even though the contract allows them to do so.

VOOM's removal had notification, and we all knew the reasons, and it was a good move IMHO.

But E* needs to explain their action first.

I can even see the possibility of E* dropping the entire HD-only-channel pack in favor of adding all the other standard new HD simulcast channels, just like what they did to VOOM, if E* has concluded that they don't have enough people paying $10 for those few channels anyway.

**gjh3260** · 02-01-2009 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

It's been a long time since I watched anything on Smithsonian, because it repeats AT LEAST as bad as Voom ever did. (And I liked Voom.) But I'll probably watch C&I even less. Probably not at all, unless they suddenly come up with an HD transfer of Twin Peaks (was it even shot on film?)

But more to the point, I'm left wondering why the hell I'm paying for the Platinum pack (or whatever it's called now, I'm afraid to even try to figure out their website anymore.)

For me its the NHL network.....the ONLY reason