Voom should have just said yes to being moved to a tier. It may cost them the whole enchilada now. I would fork over an extra $5-$10/month in a heartbeat to keep them.
VOOM Goes BOOM - update Dish Drops all 15 VOOM Channels
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Voom should have just said yes to being moved to a tier. It may cost them the whole enchilada now. I would fork over an extra $5-$10/month in a heartbeat to keep them.
VOOM is definitely gone, the next court date is 10/23 for a compliance conference. So it is safe to say, VOOM will not be coming back to Dish unless they win during the upcoming trial later in the year.
I could totally see even more people dropping from ultimate to essentials now that the package has experienced a net loss of 12 channels (15 dropped, 3 added). If they don't add more channels to the ultimate package soon, I'll probably be one of them.
this does not answer the question...that is a completely statement coming from the litigation which has yet to be done. How does he know that they said no to 5 channels that is my real question to mike and now you since you decided to answer my question with an absolute no answer.
This minute: Rush 9476/Kngfu 9479/Rave 9470/Equtr 9471/Mnstr 9481 GONE ! 
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lol, i was just watching rave(11:02cdt) and it went to a "congratulations you have a dish 500)
i have a dish 1000 btw
i have a dish 1000 btw
Yep, all are gone.
Bye Dish. I was holding out to the last minute to see if Monsters would stick around.
Me too! How do they justify 10.00 for the ultimate pack now? I am not a very happy person. Equator was one of my favorite channels. Just like that ... it is gone!
It only took them 24 hours to drop 15 hd channels but it took them months to add 22 mixed HD/SD channels. Fuzzy math 22-15 =7 new channels.
Don't forget, 2 of those (the rsn's)haven't been turned on yet (supposed to be tomorrow) so as of now it's only 5 channels
Well that is a little too drastic even for me. I have to think this has to do with the term of the contract, terminating the contract means terminating the contract. My guess is VOOM in the last minute communication with DISH told Charlie to forget it, no 5-channel deal.
Don't forget, 2 of those (the rsn's)haven't been turned on yet (supposed to be tomorrow) so as of now it's only 5 channels
worst part of all is that Dish Network still claims to be the HD Leader
i will miss Rave and Monsters-Rave was a awesome music channel with lots of great concerts and the new season of Jools Holland in HD. I would pay for that channel and monsters ala carte
Do I have inside knowledge? No. But, it seems fairly obvious. It takes Dish a couple minutes to turn off channels. There is no reason to go to all the trouble to change the web site to take off 10 channels and leave 5 up. Not to mention turning off 10 and leaving 5 up for 1 day. Then having to go update the web site again.
One would speculate (yes speculate) based on reading of the lawsuit, Dish wanted tiered VOOM. VOOM said no (and sued). When Dish won the ruling they told VOOM they wanted to carry just 5 channels and tier them or no VOOM on Dish. They updated the web pages, added the new HD (well HD in name) channels, did the swap, sent out email to all the HD customers, etc. They send out retailer emails explaining they dropped the unpopular channels. This would be a very strong signal that they were only going to carry 5 channels. VOOM had to have said no to the arrangement for them to turn around 24 hours later and take down the rest of the channels. They obviously must have said no before the conference call where Charlie Ergan said VOOM was going to go away completely.
It is just way too much work to do a 2 phased drop of channels 24 hours apart if there was not negotiations going on in the background.
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