SatelliteGuys Live Recap - Dish Retailer Chat 2/4/09

I'm tired of waiting on DISH. I'm calling the retention people and if they can't seriously sweeten the pot, I've gotta do DirecTV. So frustrating.
 
Spring becomes Summer, Summer becomes Fall. Now, I'm finally starting to get ouchy!
 
What a letdown.

It's one thing that we were expecting more, which was foolish. But the "spring" thing is particularly annoying.

"Well, we were waiting on negotiations with Viacom, but we settled that. And then we were waiting for Ciel-2 to come online, but we got that. And then we raised prices so we could afford to give them to you. So now, it will just be 2 to 5 months. Go DISH!"

They also seemed to justify the price increases based on the HD they added last year. They did used to be the undisputed price leader. I don't think they really deserve that crown any longer. I don't know why they come up with lame excuses. I also don't know why the marketing department comes up with the lame names and marketing programs and ads either.
 
What the heck is BETJ? Black Entertainment Television Japanese?
BETJ = BET Jazz ([ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET_J"]Centric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Centric_Logo.png" class="image"><img alt="Centric Logo.png" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/Centric_Logo.png/200px-Centric_Logo.png"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/2/24/Centric_Logo.png/200px-Centric_Logo.png[/ame])

Wonder what that means for VH1 Classic and CMT Pure...
 
What a letdown.

It's one thing that we were expecting more, which was foolish. But the "spring" thing is particularly annoying.

"Well, we were waiting on negotiations with Viacom, but we settled that. And then we were waiting for Ciel-2 to come online, but we got that. And then we raised prices so we could afford to give them to you. So now, it will just be 2 to 5 months. Go DISH!"

+1,000. Dates, people, dates! What are you people waiting for?

What about FX and Speed?

We didn't get a storm. The guy in the Cessna just peed.
What the heck is BETJ? Black Entertainment Television Japanese?
BET Jazz. Sounds like the only BET I'd be interested in. Doubt it's HD, though.
 
Talk about new national HD added this week, Crime and Investigation HD, Fox Business News (HD) and Fox News HD. Plus they announce that coming this spring the following new national HD channels… BET, BETJ, Comedy Central, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike TV and VH-1.

Does this mean NO new HD this week or just that the above listed channels won't come until spring? Is there a chance some of the other rumored HD channels will come today/this month?
 
What the heck is BETJ? Black Entertainment Television Japanese?

The J is for Jazz. It used to have the awkward name "BET On Jazz", then the sensible "BET Jazz". Now they are back to awkward again.

This would actually be cool, though this is the first I've heard of an HD version, considering they haven't even gotten BET off the ground.
 
Spring=Soon for Dish. Scott, looks like another drought, instead of a storm. Haven't we had enough droughts. What the Hell is Dish doing. They raise their HD prices by $20 and add two channels. This sucks!
 
Disappointing for 2 reasons.....
HD Locals coming after March, Wausau, WI.
Direct just launched these last week (all 4 networks). Now I get a timeframe from Dish that hard to believe sounds worse than "SOON"....."AFTER":(


Talk about new national HD added this week, Crime and Investigation HD, Fox Business News (HD) and Fox News HD. Plus they announce that coming this spring the following new national HD channels… BET, BETJ, Comedy Central, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike TV and VH-1.
"Spring" is the best they could do to raise our hopes for new HD? I am no where near Spring in Northern Wisconsin :D
 
They also seemed to justify the price increases based on the HD they added last year.

Which is complete BS. They started the TurboHD packages, which were the same as the old HD Only package, but more expensive. Now they are raising them again again.

Did they add ANYTHING to the Turbo HD packages between inception and last weekend? I'm sure there was one or two, but I can't think of them. They've basically raised prices TWICE without adding much of anything. (OK, they actually added a lot before the first increase.)


I just feel like a wife in the rural south who won't leave her wife-beater husband, because the only other man in town beats me even more. Until I get out of this town, I'll stay with Charlie and tell everyone I ran into a door.

(I can't wait to tell him I'm moving to another state and having an affair with FIOS!)
 
I wish I could kill my optimistic nature, but... they listed 8 channels with room for over 20 available, plus dish still hasn't issued a press release or programming alert for Fox News and Business HD being added... I Have a hard time believing all is done for February (or even for this week).

EDIT: I Realize I'm a bit naive here, but stranger things have happened.
 

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