E* and Viacom Reach New Agreement
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Did you read the above press release ? It says what it says.... There's no secret code in it that some of can read giving more information.
You read this forum more than most. If anything changes or is found out about, believe me you will probably be first to know.
I realize a lot of people on this site, including myself, don't watch a lot of these a channels but Viacom's portfolio is so broad a drop would affect a lot of people. MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon are essential cable channels that are musts for the majority. A lot of people on this site act like these are niche channels that nobody cares about and Viacom doesn't have any leverage, I don't get that at all.
Hours after its official midnight deadline expired, Viacom and Dish Network said they have reached a multi-year carriage agreement, avoiding a blackout of the satellite TV company's 14 million subscribers. The deal also includes carriage of select Viacom networks on Dish's over-the-top service Sling TV, which was a key part of the negotiations.
Viacom, Dish Reach Carriage Agreement
http://www.multichannel.com/news/satellite/viacom-dish-reach-carriage-agreement/404355
Viacom, Dish Reach Carriage Agreement
http://www.multichannel.com/news/satellite/viacom-dish-reach-carriage-agreement/404355
TV Land SD really is the biggest eyesore right now out of that group IMO. Looks really bad with it being such a low channel on the lineup
MTV Live/Palladia is easily my most watched out of that group. I love that channel and would have missed it greatly. Comedy Central to a certain extent as well, but it ain't what it used to be
Does not matter. I don't watch SD channels anymore. In 2016 if a channel is in HD then we should get it in HD.
How about dropping half of the 18 Viacom laggards, and keeping just the 9 high rated channels? I don't need to watch five hours of the Andy Griffith Show every day on TVLand either.
I just don't like Viacom using up all of that valuable Satellite space when there are a lot more channels and HD quality many people would enjoy.
Crazy in the sense that, there was never a "rate war" over FNC. It was Fox trying to leverage FNC in order to renegotiate deals on channels they repurposed but were under a different contract.
Who says Viacom wasn't blundered? Viacom saw the writing on the wall and blinked.
A shame really. We'll miss you as you switch to Directv to get Comedy.TV.
I'm sure Dish and others would love to do that, but Viacom would never do that. It's take the entire package or lose the handful of channels we know you can't afford to lose.
Thanks and congrats to Dish,Viacom and great for the customers on getting this done!
I suspect that the agreements that are negotiated now most likely include the HD channels, I.E Dish has the option to provide the HD feed if they choose to add it for a channel that they don't already provide in HD.
Lots of folks will watch that 5 hours of Andy Griffith, my mother and dad watch an hour or two of Andy every time it is on TVLand.
I haven't been watching TVLand on DISH for quite a while because it's in SD. If/when it goes HD we'll watch a lot more of it, especially Andy.
Looks like Viacom still calls MTV Live "Palladia." Here is a pic of logos from a Viacom commercial.
