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    Directv contract with Fox networks coming up...AGREEMENT REACHED

    Last year around this time we where having the same issue with Fox/News Corp. Other cable companies had the same issue with them too. Rupert Murdoch is greedy and a crook. He and his company want more money then they really deserve.
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    possible loss of some local markets

    Dish network and Griffin Communications are in the middle of our negotiation for a new carriage agreement, but no agreement has been made as of yet. If a new contract is not worked out then some customers could loose some locals starting January 16. Source...
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    OFFICIAL DISH / FOX ORDEAL DISCUSSION THREAD

    While watching the NFL on local Fox I seen a dish network commercial with Charlie in it. Charlie is willing to buy commercial time on Fox but refuses to pay more than what he thinks is a fair deal for the FSN's FX and Nat Geo. Does this make sense to anyone/
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    Canadian - audit worries

    Be carefull hooking a receiver to a phone or ethernet connection. I had a customer who was audited by the equipment verification team, because the phone number that he was just given by the phone company was listed at another address. After faxxing in proof to the EVT deptartment he was able to...
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    Nhl center ice -fox dispute?

    When I first started working at dish they use to have the MLB Extra Innings. Ever since dish hasn't had the YES network any many years, any time some one wanted to watch the Yankees had to watch them on their opponent's network feed(example: New York vs Boston would have to be watch on Boston's...
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    Sentate passes commercial volume law

    Many advertisers broadcast their commercials in mono sound(1.0).If you have a tv with stereo sound (2.0) or Dolby Digital surround sound (5.1, 7.1) and watching a movie or show in that sound format and a commericial comes in mono it will always be louder. It takes less power and volume to...
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    OFFICIAL DISH / FOX ORDEAL DISCUSSION THREAD

    Dish needs to get their act together so that the FSN's don't end up like the YES network. Dish did have the YES network a long time ago but do to a contract dispute the channel was never played on dish again. Charlie loves to low-ball programmers. DIsh hasn't had the YES since the time I have...
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    Will FOX dispute influence the NBA League Pass subscriber

    When I first started working at dish they use to have the MLB Extra Innings. Ever since dish hasn't had the YES network any many years, any time some one wanted to watch the Yankees had to watch them on their opponent's network feed(example: New York vs Boston would have to be watch on Boston's...
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    OFFICIAL DISH / FOX ORDEAL DISCUSSION THREAD

    I wish dish would settle this with Fox. I have answered calls from angry customers pretty much all since the takedown. Many are threatening to cancel. It's not new for dish or any other pay tv provider to have a channel removed during a new contract dispute, but this is the worst multi channel...
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    how dish donates to charities

    Most people are already aware that some big corporations donate to charitable organizations. The two main reasons for donating are so they can receive a tax deduction and to improve the company's image with the public. This is a good a business practic. Most people wouldn't have any objections...
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    dish equipment verification teams...what do they ask.

    Dish will allow for a customer to put only one reciever in an RV/camper, but only under the following conditions: The receiver must be purchased and not leased. If agent hears that a receiver in an RV is leased then they must fill out a form to the EVT (equipment verification team). Dish will...
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    Clark Howard fires DishNetwork.....

    Unfortunately this happens if a customer has 5 or 6 receivers and not all of them are hooked up to a phone line. As an agent I see this pretty often. Dish also get suspicious if you order a lot of sports PPVs (such as NBA League Pass, ESPN Gameplan and others). The accounts that most likely to...
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    dish equipment verification teams...what do they ask.

    Any time a customer meantions that one or more of their receivers is at an another address or at a business, the agents are required to report that information to the equipment verification team. Dish does this because they want all receivers to remain in the same address. If you are reported to...
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    Charged for VOD that I didn't order

    The process of setting a customers PPV credit limit to zero dollars is no longer an option for front line customer services agents anymore. We always had a way to lower the limit at the customer's request until this year. It can still be done, but in order to it now the agents have to hunt down...
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    Charged for VOD that I didn't order

    This has been a growing trend that me and my fellow agents have noticed lately. Unfortunately dish has forbidden all normal customer service agents from waiving these charges. However there are a couple of effective methods that will help to you to get these charges reversed. The first way is...
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    Dish Payment Enforcement

    I don't have a problem telling a customer that hardly ever pays his or her bill on time, that i can do anything with out taking a payment for the full balance. Unfortunately I have to tell the same thing to a customer who may have lost his or her job, or who may have had a debt or credit card...
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    Dish Payment Enforcement

    Have you called dish network because your service was interupted for being past due? Where you told the only way to get it restored is to make a payment for the full balance only? Did the agent refuse to transfer to a supervisor and then hang up? This is what dish calls Payment Enforcement (aka...
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    Dish Customer Service

    This what happens when a company is willing to get rid of experienced customer serivce agents and save money buy hiring new agents and so they can get credit from the government's "2010 HIRE Act" program.
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    DISH loses 4 more HD channels - 3 Return

    Charlie claims the channels were dropped for now in order keep the cost to the customers from going. That would have made more since if the top-200 and top-250 packages were not increased early this month. What it all boiles down to is profits. Any one who is smart enough would know that.
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    Thinking about cancelling dish?

    If you are unhappy with dish network and want to cancel here is a secret that dish doesn't want you know. If you upgrade your package the highest package and add other channels (like latino, multi sports, superstations, premiums, international, and adult programming. just no pay-per-views) and...
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    As a Top Tier Customer.......

    On February 1st dish network dramatically increased the cost of addition receiver(s) on an account starting on February 1st 2010 (not the 1st receiver). They issued a minor credit for 6 months for those customers bills who went up by a lot.
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    $5 programming downgrade/upgrade fee now enforced

    Dish has a new company rule that will not allow customer service agents to waive the $5.00 downgrade grade fee anymore for any customer. If a front line agent is caught waiving the fee, then that agent is subject to a write up and/or termination. In the future if you downgrade, you should tell...
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    Well, I cancelled Dish

    Dish Netowork use to ship out prepaid return labels for a very long time, but that changed when new prices and promotions went in to effect on Febuary 1st 2010. They always raise prices on February 1st of each year. Also you should just tell them that you are not able to return the LBN on the...
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    New fees from dish network

    D/N tells us that they are the lowest in all digital. What they don't tell you about the new fees and changes to existing fees. 1st change: There is no longer an option to have your service moved to another address for free anymore. In the past, if a customer signed out for dish's service...