Deal with NPS to "save" distants on DISH!

[GordonR]

Priceless!

Hopefully NPS will hire some of Dish's CSRs who aren't that great with English for their distants qualifcation line. "Yes yes you like distant signal, very good I get you that sir"

Chris,
Hilarious! Great post!

 

[Claude Greiner]

The court document clearly states that Echostar's FCC license is being used to facilitate these channels. If that is the case, then the arrangement is flawed. Otherwise, there is nothing to stop this going forward.

But then again they are "Leasing" the transponder.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I understand that Dish will be holding a special "All Hands" meeting at 10am. I am trying to get info from that all hands meeting.

Stay tuned.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Dish leases transponders to many companies.And all Transponders are licensed by the FCC.

They are just throwing stuff out there hoping one of the arguments sticks.

 

[Tampa8]

Some of us have repeated it several times, but it is worth saying again. Don't ever underestimate Charlie. It appears he now has two possible ways to keep distants at least for those who really need them, and maybe for others. By his statements on the DVR issue I believe he has something planned for that also.

 

[minorthr]

I haven't really been following the the whole DNS on E* thing but how does this change anything. NPS still has to qualify the people for DNS right. Is E* not allowed to do that anymore? Did they have to stop DNS even to those who actually are allowed to receive them?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Qualification frm NPS would be different since NPS does not sell LIL services.

 

[Tampa8]

I understand that Dish will be holding a special "All Hands" meeting at 10am. I am trying to get info from that all hands meeting.

Stay tuned.

This is where I come for breaking news. Very interested to see what comes of this meeting. For the record I still have all my distants.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I was hoping a friend of mine would be able to feed me the meeting via Slingbox, but alas, I will need to settle with a speakerphone near his TV.

That will work I guess.

Charlie opens the meeting thanking everyone for getting their on time because of all the ice and snow.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Charlie Ergen then goes into explaining Distant Network History.

 

[Dish-Direc]

Magnificent Job Scott......thats why we need to continue to support this site.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Going over the Distant Network timeline now.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Charlie is now talking about the "Death Penelty" they were served, and how they were denied even though they had a settlement with broadcasters.

Charlie is telling what they can do for those losing locals.

1) Get their locals from Dish

2) Get an OTA Antenna

or
3) "Another Company not affiliated with Dish Network CAN provide Distant Networks"

They are calling NPS "All American Direct" and will be offering Atlanta or San Francisco

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

4) Lifeline Cable

5) DirecTV (which charlie does not recommend)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Charlie says to keep on pushing SavemyChannels.COM and to keep calling congress.

 

[Tampa8]

4) Lifeline Cable

5) DirecTV (which charlie does not recommend)

3) "Another Company not affiliated with Dish Network CAN provide Distant Networks" This aspect is getting very interesting.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Charlie says "This is Echostar and we like to win"

Dish is holding a special promo for employees to help them hit the 13 million subscriber mark by December 31st.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Charlie wraps up things telling people to get back to work.

And that ends the special employee meeting.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I should note that Charlie kept calling NPS "All American Satellite" while the first slide I guess showed All American Direct.

 

[mecro]

What an incredibly clever way to do it. NPS does not have to qualify customers for its distant networks...How perfect would it be if everybody could get distant networks now, regardless of locale??