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. The 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.
ok it is all speculation on your part. that is fine with me just do not stay it as a fact. In one of your post sounded like a fact when it is your own speculation. Voom has yet to make a statement about it. The only thing they said was no comment since they are still in litigation.