Yep and maybe one of these times it will be the Right Excuse.The excuse just moves from one thing to the other.
Yep and maybe one of these times it will be the Right Excuse.The excuse just moves from one thing to the other.
Dish is waiting for (fill in the blank) to add more national HD.
-tp space
-contract negotiations
-industry trade show
-february price increases
-charlie chat
-earnings report
-retailer chat
The excuse just moves from one thing to the other.
As I have said before, Charlie is not going to add any more National HD until after the first of the year, since he would have to provide them to the HD Absolute customers. He wants the HD Absolute customer to switch over to one of the more expensive HD packages. So, he has to have some desired HD available that is not in the HD Absolute packages or we will not change. I will never change. I have all I need, I am not paying $20 more per month for a few more HD channels. He can kiss my A** before I will change.
No big national stuff until after Ciel-2 comes online in the next few weeks.
All of this nonsense about not bringing new national HD online has to be due to a lack of contracts on the part of Dish. Ciel-2 might bring additional capacity, but they've pulled down MPEG4 HD channels here and there and added HDPPV channels here and there; so it seems that the capacity is there, but the channels aren't available.
It seems to me that 'up to' means that Dish was hoping to have more channels under contract by the end of the year than what they were able to negotiate.
Any thoughts?
You are missing the point that EchoStar 5 at 129 is dying, and Dish has no spares in orbit.
If Ciel-2 fails to replace EchoStar 5, then Dish would have to use every last scrap of space at 110/119 just to move the existing channels at 129 there.
Only when they know Ciel-2 is fine, can they add new channels.
We know for a fact that the Echo5 momentum wheels have failed, and they are using precious rocket fuel to maintain attitude. At 148 they can let it cone all over the place and spray broad ocean areas with slates, and that will satisfy the FCC to keep their licenses.
So I'm with kstuart and others in thinking that a lot depends on Ciel-2. However, transpoders are free right now on both 129 and 61.5, so they could add something if they wanted to. Why nothing? I think they should throw us a bone and put some new channels on the uplink, even if they're not yet available. It would give us on Satelliteguys further pause before we flee en-mass to DirectTV.
I don't keep up with AK and HI stuff but didnt they just add quite a bit of HD to those spotbeams or maybe it is they are not available yet.
Dish is waiting for (fill in the blank) to add more national HD.
-tp space
-contract negotiations
-industry trade show
-february price increases
-charlie chat
-earnings report
-retailer chat
The excuse just moves from one thing to the other.
It's all about Charlie making that stink'in penny, in his pocket.
Dish is waiting for (fill in the blank) to add more national HD.
-tp space
-contract negotiations
-industry trade show
-february price increases
-charlie chat
-earnings report
-retailer chat
The excuse just moves from one thing to the other.
It's all about Charlie making that stink'in penny, in his pocket.
Dish Network has never given any explanations or reasons for not adding a channel, at any point, in the last 12 years. ( When asked about a specific channel, the response is always "we are in negotiations".)
Same thing in New Orleans. Fox8 turned off their analog monday and they are now digital only. I think somewhere in Carolina shut off their analog about a month ago, so i dont think your station was the 1st.6381(29) - KCWE [MPEG4 HD] added to Echostar12 61.5W TP 09 Area 8 beam (NA)(Kansas City, MO)
6381(29) - KCWE [MPEG4 HD] added to EchoStar5 129W TP 04 ConUS beam (NA)(Kansas City, MO)
Wow they added our local CW Channel here in KC. Of course it isn't lit up yet and the analog is really their HD version they just adjusted the Aspect ratio to be 4:3. Also this Monday, a couple days ago. KCWE turned off their Analog broadcast and supposedly are the first broadcast station in the country to shut off their analog and only go digital, so this may be the reason Dish is looking at adding it.