Dish HD vs Disney (DISH sort of won...)
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Perhaps if Disney is pressed to get Rodent Jr into wider distribution they'll be more willing to negotiate with DISH on resolution of the ESPNNEWSHD, ABCFAMILYHD, EPNUHD, etc. I'm not sure how many providers have jumped at Jr.
It will probably be forced on providers at contract renewal time along with higher fees for the sports channels.
According to the Disney Jr. availability page, they're working to be available on Bright House, Cablevision, Cox, Time Warner, Verizon and Xfinity. Xfinity is scheduled to turn up a week from Thursday.
Neither DISH nor DIRECTV are on board.
harshness said:
And that's Disney's problem. They should have killed SoapNet completely and gave everyone Disney Jr. Then at contract renewal time forced companies to keep it. That way people would have already seen it, and there would be a bigger cry for it. Kids won't care when they didn't know they didn't have it to begin with. This smells of a bad business decision, like New Coke/Coke II.
The Fat Man said:
When disney anounced that they were droping soapnet in 2 years i belive they said it was going to replace it with disney jr. I dont know why the decided not to go that route like discovery had when health changed to own and others have
wkomorow said:
Oh yea befor the finially added the teennick 24hr feed when it was the n. I hated that gas loop
Nick did that to force Dish to keep the channel for them until the contract expired and they could "negotiate" (read force Dish with the threat of pulling popular channels) with Dish to carry the new channel.
John Carter took down an exec at Disney. And you just thought that all the violence was on the screen. 
Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross Resigns - Yahoo! Movies
Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross Resigns - Yahoo! Movies
John Carter took down an exec at Disney. And you just thought that all the violence was on the screen.
Hey, when your firm loses 200 million dollars on one film, under your leadership, you lose your leadership......
profit is a great thing..but when your revenue drops and you have to close call centers to maintain that profit(less customers = less employees) at some point something has to give
Not necassrily how it works at all. In fact I would say almost backwards, it's when profit is down that downsizing and hurting the business happens not just revenue.
I have 500 customers, 1/2 of which pay on time, the others I have to chase, spend money notifying them, getting equipment back, some of which like LNB's I may never get back. But actual revenue when all is said and done is higher than if I had just the other 1/2 customers, but profit is eaten up.
Now I don't try and keep the first 1/2, end up with mostly the second 1/2, who pay and may have larger packages. Revenue is down, but profit soars. If I downsize call centers, it's because they are not needed, less customers, and more importantly less customers who are calling all the time about paying their bill. Win Win.....
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