Channel 100 going out of Service

[worstman1]

I am seeing a message in the guide starting at 5am today. It says "Channel going out of Service". "this channel is going out of service on 2/28/2023. In order to continue enjoying the features of this channel, please call dish to upgrade your equipment."

I have a dish 722k and flex pack. Anybody seeing this or heard about what this means?

I have my 722k hooked up to the internet. For some reason <menu><customer support > is greyed out also.

 

[mwdxer1]

I got the same message. But I never watch channel 100 anyway. I have the vip211k.

 

[HipKat]

I don’t even know what channel 100 is!

 

[Mister Coke]

Free Preview Showcase

 

[Juan]

Was it the one with 6 channels on it?

 

[Yespage]

Quite possibly the worst effort by Dish to force us old-timers to upgrade to Hoppers. Upgrade or you'll lose Channel 100. Oh my... what's next, losing Bravo, TLC?

 

[Tvland1]

Every effort to stick everyone with that stupid DVR fees..

 

[chainblu]

Quite possibly the worst effort by Dish to force us old-timers to upgrade to Hoppers.

After seeing this thread I went to my Wally to see what channel 100 was. Never watched it. Hopefully they aren't also taking away the Weather Interactive on the older receivers. I still use that when camping and cell service/internet is iffy.

 

[Jim5506]

IIRC all your regular channels will continue to work as before.

Your receivers are MPEG4 already.

Channel 100 is not a big loss.

 

[Radioguy41]

Free Preview Showcase

Never watched it but just out of curiosity, if the channels are in free preview why would you need a free preview channel for the free previews? So you have a channel listing the free previews, and a channel showcasing the free previews, and of the course the actual free previews themselves. Seems kind of redundant.

 

[mwdxer1]

Quite possibly the worst effort by Dish to force us old-timers to upgrade to Hoppers. Upgrade or you'll lose Channel 100. Oh my... what's next, losing Bravo, TLC?

A channel few people watched anyway. It will clear up more bandwidth...

 

[Juan]

Never watched it but just out of curiosity, if the channels are in free preview why would you need a free preview channel for the free previews? So you have a channel listing the free previews, and a channel showcasing the free previews, and of the course the actual free previews themselves. Seems kind of redundant.

Not listing
It was more of a multiview..6 squares..each containing a channel..you can watch all 6 or click on one to watch that channel..great technology in the 90s..not so much now

 

[Yespage]

A channel few people watched anyway. It will clear up more bandwidth...

Finally, bandwidth for Cowgirl Network in 4K!

 

[bookworm370]

Gee, I've had channel 100 locked out by my favorites list for 20 years now. Forget it was even there!

 

[Radioguy41]

OK, I'm officially confused. The preview listing channel is now gone from the Wally but the showcase channel (100) is still there? Huh? How does this make sense?