Viacom fun!
Mar. 9th, 2004 04:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spatchHEY KIDS! HERE'S A GREAT CORPORATE JUNIOR HIGH SLAPFIGHT!
1. Viacom has demanded that Echostar, which runs the DISH network, pay increased fees in order to carry and retransmit the CBS network and other Viacom-owned basic cable networks such as Comedy Central and MTV. Not only that, but Viacom has also ordered Echostar to take on (and pay for) additional Viacom-owned networks, such as "Nickelodeon Games and Sports."
2. Echostar decides this is an anti-trust lawsuit just waiting to happen, tells Viacom to SUK IT, and plans to drop all Viacom-owned channels.
3. Viacom says "OH NO YOU DINT" and begins running captions over all its channel feeds, exhorting DISH subscribers to call and complain about DISH dropping the channels, or simply to switch to DirecTV.
4. Echostar retaliates by running black bars over the caption crawls on the Viacom feeds.
5. Viacom moves the caption crawls around.
6. Echostar moves the black bars around.
7. Spatch decides the whole goddamn thing now looks just like this.
8. Spatch is also glad he just gets network TV off the aerials.
1. Viacom has demanded that Echostar, which runs the DISH network, pay increased fees in order to carry and retransmit the CBS network and other Viacom-owned basic cable networks such as Comedy Central and MTV. Not only that, but Viacom has also ordered Echostar to take on (and pay for) additional Viacom-owned networks, such as "Nickelodeon Games and Sports."
2. Echostar decides this is an anti-trust lawsuit just waiting to happen, tells Viacom to SUK IT, and plans to drop all Viacom-owned channels.
3. Viacom says "OH NO YOU DINT" and begins running captions over all its channel feeds, exhorting DISH subscribers to call and complain about DISH dropping the channels, or simply to switch to DirecTV.
4. Echostar retaliates by running black bars over the caption crawls on the Viacom feeds.
5. Viacom moves the caption crawls around.
6. Echostar moves the black bars around.
7. Spatch decides the whole goddamn thing now looks just like this.
8. Spatch is also glad he just gets network TV off the aerials.
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Date: 2004-03-09 08:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-09 09:43 am (UTC)So Dish's plan to take the high road, look like the good guy, refuse to pay the rate increase and "pass the savings on to you, the little people" ends up saving you one whole stinkin' dollar. Plus contracted subscribers are unable to switch to a service that carries the channels they want without breaking their contract prematurely and paying the penalty.
There's really nobody to root for in this scenario other than, say, DirecTV.
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-09 11:55 am (UTC)