Charlie Chat Recap -- March 10th

[dfergie]

SatelliteGuys
Charlie Chat Recap
March 10, 2008

Hosts Jim DeFranco and Charlie Ergen

Topics:
Launch of New Satellite Friday(AMC 14)
Guests:
Trisha Helfer
Patty Stanger
Eric Sahl
Frank Caliendo
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Frank Caliendo talks with Jim about a new Dish network ad campaign.

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Authors note: my receiver crashed so I missed about 5 minutes of the chat...

Dish HD Channels Coming Soon:
AMC
ABC Family
BET
Bio
Bravo
Cartoon
CNN
CMT
Disney
Espn News
HBO2
IFC
MTV
MoreMax
Nick
SciFi
Smithsonian
StarzEdge
Tennis Channel
Toon Disney
The Weather Channel
USA
VH1
WGN

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Coming Soon SciFi HD...
Trisha Hefler a special guest talks about her roles on Battlestar Galactica and mostly her life.
Clip is shown of 6 and Col. Tighe.
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Clip about digital transition
Jim: Customers hooked up to dish network will not be affected.
Charlie: shows the TR-50 DVR and the TR-40 digital boxes.
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Eric Sahl clip
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Questions:
John
Recently Someone added a network, the Mountain network when?
A: We carry almost everything the Mtn network carrys, we haven't been able to reach a deal with them.
We are the only satellite company that handles the New Orleans Sports Channel 421.

Steve:
Does dish have any plans to change the 4 tuner limit?
A: Yes, we are looking at options we are continuing to improver our offers, consider the 612...

Ralph:
Why did the NFL network change packages?
A: We orginally put them on the top 200, we made an agreement to carry the 8 games carried by NFL, last season they showed the Giants, Patriots games free, o we went back to our orginal contract.

Caller Benjaman:
I know you are limited bandwidth wise, a lot of sports are on, could some of that bandwidth be allocated for USA etc...
A: W have the bandwidth to add USA and Scifi today, there are other reasons why they are not on... be patient as additional HD channels will be broadcast.

Caller Bryan:
The guys at Satelliteguys would like to know when you are going to release the TR-40 and TR50 and Speed network?
A: We would like to add speed, we want to make sure you are treated fairly... the TR-40 maybe June and TR-50 maybe August...

Bonnie & Clyde:
Why has the signal strength been lowered?
A: The engineers wanted to go with a lower scale, now the strengths are consistent.

Rick:
After ordering a ppv online how do I know which receiver ill it show on?
A: All of the receivers.
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Patty and Eric clip

Winner of quiz:
Kevin Cobb
A: Mad TV
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Thanks to digiblur for most of the screencaps...

 

[FlyingJ]

Didn't this start at 8:00? Its been an hour fifteen so far?

 

[given2fly]

"Coming Soon"

 

[BFG]

started at 9

 

[FlyingJ]

Lol

 

[Ramen]

Looks like Fort Myers locals in HD won't be first off after all.

I blame 61.5.

 

[Ramen]

Charlie showing off his smooth operator skills.

 

[tigerfan33]

They said hd launch this week. Any guess which one??

golliebob. Saw your WGN hd logo.

 

[ShadowInc]

Yea I heard that too.... they are too busy drooling to tell us about it right now

 

[dfergie]

Bear with me... my 622 crashed so I missed some of the chat...

 

[tigerfan33]

I don't blame them. She is hot.

She needs to ask the hd question. She will get a answer.lol

 

[wii_dont_care]

They said hd launch this week. Any guess which one??

golliebob. Saw your WGN hd logo.

Maybe they'll say "SOON"

 

[duckydan]

This is my first time watching it and it must have the lowest production cost of any program aired.... ever... including high schools and small colleges. That said very disappointed with the "coming soon" even though the channel list looked nice when they first showed it.

 

[Hatfield]

Tonight's chat is like watching monkeys do naughty things to a football.

 

[MikeD-C05]

25 channels coming SOON in hd ACCORDING TO THE SLIDES ON THE CHAT. But Charlie did say "most" of these channels will launch.

1. ABC FAMILY
2. AMC
3. BET
4. BIOGRAPHY
5. BRAVO
6. CARTOON NETWORK
7. CNN
8. CMT
9. DISNEY CHANNEL
10. ESPN NEWS
11. HBO 2
12. IFC
13. MGM
14. MTV
15. MORE MAX
16. NICKELODON
17. SCI-FI
18. SMITHSONIAN
19. TENNIS
20. STARZ EDGE
21. TOON DISNEY
22. USA
23. WEATHER CHANNEL
24. VH1
25. WGN SUPERSTATION

 

[Ramen]

They said hd launch this week. Any guess which one??

golliebob. Saw your WGN hd logo.

I thought it as more of a "we're launching a satellite into space" comment, not an HD channel launch.

 

[wii_dont_care]

I thought it as more of a "we're launching a satellite into space" comment, not an HD channel launch.

That was how I understood it.

 

[rich88]

That was how I understood it.

+2

 

[tigerfan33]

I thought it as more of a "we're launching a satellite into space" comment, not an HD channel launch.

I did a rewind and I think you are right. It was more about the sat. launch. Not about hd.

 

[Ramen]

I did a rewind and I think you are right. It was more about the sat. launch. Not about hd.

Where would you be without that super awesome DVR?