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Satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. is no longer carrying 21st Century Fox’s Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network after the companies couldn’t come to terms on a new distribution contract.
The channels went dark for Dish customers Saturday night, and there are currently no talks between the two companies, a senior Fox News executive said.
i'd like for comcast to lose fox, msnbc, and espn. i have no use for any of those channels. at the very least, give me the option to stop buying them.
That's my problem with TV and Internet - it's so monopolized that they have no reason to make it customizable. I'm hopeful that if NN gets passed and streaming services continue to flood the market that TV and Internet sources will be forced via the market to make major changes.
i'm hopeful that NN will get passed at all. all of the money is riding on the other option.
Dropping the highest rated cable news channel in the country sounds like a bad business strategy.
They've been running commercials here about Dish not carrying Fox for a few weeks but they aren't just being run on Fox. I have DirecTV and I'm glad.
In the end, Dish will cave I suspect.
So Fox lying about it is ok with you?
As a "cord cutter" I don't care. I can get all the pertinent details of 24/7 news channels on my ROKU box. By that I mean the two hours of "news" that the 24/7 news networks air and then repeat in two hour loops the rest of the day. Who needs DISH or Direct for that when I've got a ROKU box?They've been running commercials here about Dish not carrying Fox for a few weeks but they aren't just being run on Fox. I have DirecTV and I'm glad.
In the end, Dish will cave I suspect.
I don't really care. I haven't seen any of the commercials on Fox about it. It isn't important. I have been seeing commercials running on DirecTV for years bashing on Dish for limiting what their subscribers can see. This is no different.
As a "cord cutter" I don't care. I can get all the pertinent details of 24/7 news channels on my ROKU box. By that I mean the two hours of "news" that the 24/7 news networks air and then repeat in two hour loops the rest of the day. Who needs DISH or Direct for that when I've got a ROKU box?
Fox is accusing DTV of censoring them. It's a blatant bold faced lie.
As a "cord cutter" I don't care. I can get all the pertinent details of 24/7 news channels on my ROKU box. By that I mean the two hours of "news" that the 24/7 news networks air and then repeat in two hour loops the rest of the day. Who needs DISH or Direct for that when I've got a ROKU box?
You have not heard of ROKU yet? Good. I'm always delighted when I can share some possibly money saving information. Here is the Wikipage for ROKU:No clue what a ROKU box is.
If DTV dropped Fox (or MSNBC or any of the others) I could get them in my car on Sirius XM but it isn't the same for me. I like my big screen telly and I like looking at Steve Hayes when he's on Fox. My husband would panic if he didn't get to see Kimberly Guilfoyle's legs too.
I've been a cord cuter for several years, yet manage to remain marginally acquainted with what is in the news. Besides, I can get Fox News (the others too) on my free to air HD antenna. No need to do anything illegal.With live crises, I can especially see the need for live reporting, and where alternative methods still have much work to go to get it right.
C-SPAN is another problem. As it is the creation of cable companies (and distributed on satellite networks), the only existing legal means you have of getting it is through a legitimate subscription.
It's getting more persuasive to be a total cutter, but not yet.
I've been a cord cuter for several years, yet manage to remain marginally acquainted with what is in the news. Besides, I can get Fox News (the others too) on my free to air HD antenna. No need to do anything illegal.
Marginally acquainted doesn't quite interest me. In my area, without a subscription I could only get several stations (Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC were not among them).
That being said, I am quite pleased with my Roku 3 (minus the lack of C-SPAN).
Oh. And?
So you have no problem with a supposedly credible News Network lying their ass off? So integrity be damned?
Do you believe Bush 43 was AWOL from the TANG?
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