Dish Network's lack of Yankees has fans fuming
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/09/28/noyanks2.htm
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Here it is, the last week of the baseball season, with my Yankees and those blasted Red Sox battling for first place. A-Rod and Jeter, Mariano and Sheffield duking it out with Manny and Ortiz, Schilling and Damon.
Do or die. Playoffs or a long winter. Red Sox and Yanks. Last game of the season.
I can't watch.
I'm one of the few thousand folks around here who subscribe to the Dish Network. And as any ticked-off Yankees fan knows, Dish doesn't carry the Yes Network, which broadcasts the Yanks, including three of the final five games of the regular season.
This stinks.
Time Warner carries Yes. So does Cablevision. The other satellite company, DIRECTV, does, too.
But I live on a road that's not wired for cable. I chose Dish before the Yes Network was formed.
So I'm stuck. Just like I was all season. But now it really hurts. So I started making some calls. Lots of calls.
When I finally reached someone in corporate headquarters at Dish – after getting switched to six other employees in places like Wisconsin – he refused to comment on Dish and Yes. But he said not to count on it this year. Someone at Yes said, "It's not in the works."
Which doesn't make sense. A Dish dealer in Orange County said some customers who agree to buy Dish send the installer away when they learn Dish doesn't carry Yes and the Yanks.
And now, with the hottest playoff race in years, more and more Dish subscribers are complaining.
"I can't tell you how many calls a week I get," said the local Dish dealer.
But as I was calling around yesterday, I discovered a solution to the Yankee problem. And I don't mean getting Pedro for the last few games. Or praying that Ortiz and Manny get instant suspensions.
When I spoke with Belinda Savoy of Cronk's Electronics in Liberty, she told me all Dish subscribers could switch to DIRECTV without an installation fee or charge for equipment, as long as their credit is good. For a package that includes Yes, you pay $41.99 per month.
To which I say: Goodbye, Dish, hello, Yanks.
Steve Israel is a reporter in the Sullivan County bureau of the Times Herald-Record. He can reached at 794-3712 or sisrael@th-record.com.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/09/28/noyanks2.htm
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Here it is, the last week of the baseball season, with my Yankees and those blasted Red Sox battling for first place. A-Rod and Jeter, Mariano and Sheffield duking it out with Manny and Ortiz, Schilling and Damon.
Do or die. Playoffs or a long winter. Red Sox and Yanks. Last game of the season.
I can't watch.
I'm one of the few thousand folks around here who subscribe to the Dish Network. And as any ticked-off Yankees fan knows, Dish doesn't carry the Yes Network, which broadcasts the Yanks, including three of the final five games of the regular season.
This stinks.
Time Warner carries Yes. So does Cablevision. The other satellite company, DIRECTV, does, too.
But I live on a road that's not wired for cable. I chose Dish before the Yes Network was formed.
So I'm stuck. Just like I was all season. But now it really hurts. So I started making some calls. Lots of calls.
When I finally reached someone in corporate headquarters at Dish – after getting switched to six other employees in places like Wisconsin – he refused to comment on Dish and Yes. But he said not to count on it this year. Someone at Yes said, "It's not in the works."
Which doesn't make sense. A Dish dealer in Orange County said some customers who agree to buy Dish send the installer away when they learn Dish doesn't carry Yes and the Yanks.
And now, with the hottest playoff race in years, more and more Dish subscribers are complaining.
"I can't tell you how many calls a week I get," said the local Dish dealer.
But as I was calling around yesterday, I discovered a solution to the Yankee problem. And I don't mean getting Pedro for the last few games. Or praying that Ortiz and Manny get instant suspensions.
When I spoke with Belinda Savoy of Cronk's Electronics in Liberty, she told me all Dish subscribers could switch to DIRECTV without an installation fee or charge for equipment, as long as their credit is good. For a package that includes Yes, you pay $41.99 per month.
To which I say: Goodbye, Dish, hello, Yanks.
Steve Israel is a reporter in the Sullivan County bureau of the Times Herald-Record. He can reached at 794-3712 or sisrael@th-record.com.
