DISH responds to PBS Injunction

[Scott Greczkowski]

DISH NETWORK STATEMENT ON PBS INJUNCTION RULING

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 22, 2010 – DISH Network L.L.C. issued the following statement today about the PBS injunction ruling:
"We are disappointed with the decision, and intend to appeal. We believe that our customers should be the ones who decide what they want to watch on TV and how they want to watch it. We also believe that it is important to defend those fundamental First Amendment rights.”

[tomcrown1]

Dish statement is full of markley lies bu not true. I want pbs HD and I'am a dish customer, I also want Disney HD not getting it so dish stop with the malerky and tell the truth.

[lsilvest]

It's almost a moot argument for some markets. Around here, PBS is pathetic. They have almost no HD anyway.

[TheKrell]

OK, I give. What decision?

[larry55]

i wonder how many lawsuits that dish has lost.charlie is alway suing some one.

[Paradox-SJ]

i wonder how many lawsuits that dish has lost.charlie is alway suing some one.

That's business...every major corp has lawsuits regularly of some sort.

[multnomah]

I wonder which of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment Charlie is referring to? Freedom of speech (Never a problem for him before)? Freedom of religion (is Charlie religious?)

What the First Amendment does NOT guarantee is Charlie's right to do whatever he wants, whenever he pleases, to, to whomever happens to be in his way.

PBS has run some good specials on the Constitution and how it works, but I guess Charlie wasn't watching.

[Iceberg]

Funny how they were praising STELA because they could carry locals in almost all markets yet now they're saying "its not fair" because they have to carry PBS in HD when they launch a new market?

[flampher]

I am lucky enough to get several NY PBS's off air, and I think they have a lot of HD programing. It would be nice to get the VT PBS from dish, my wife would love it.

[96corvette]

OMG so you are keeping all the HD locals away just for HD PBS? and you DISH, care about your subs. in the affected market? you dish, are making many of us change to DTV