Dish adds Smithsonian Channel as part of CBS Agreement

[ChadT41]

Sounds expensive. But maybe by delaying it a while, they can leapfrog to HEVC.

Possibly... I trust in the bean counters and Charlie to know what is going on with their company internally, and that although I feel it affects me, it is really none of my concern to really urge. Suggestions, yes. Telling them what they NEED to do to "survive", no. LOL. There is a reason we all pay them, and they make decisions for us. I hear running a MVPD is expensive.

 

[Juan]

I trust in the bean counters

I guess you will have to learn the hardway like everyone else

 

[bobvick]

don't think they are anywhere close to switching the western arc....are they?

I was talking about QPSK to 8PSK conversion, not MPEG2 to MPEG4. The change to 8PSK is supposed to yield more bandwidth.

 

[ChadT41]

I guess you will have to learn the hardway like everyone else

What will I be learning?

 

[Juan]

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[ChadT41]

That does change the fact that the bean counters that are there helping make the decisions with Charlie have no idea what they are doing... Layoffs don't really affect that level. I'm talking senior levels, not lower levels employees.

 

[KAB]

This thread has certainly gone off the rails!

 

[charlesrshell]

This thread has certainly gone off the rails!

Yep, and still no Smithsonian Channel!!

 

[bluegras]

maybe we will get this channel next month who knows?they can add it in HD and also add the ondemand channel.i wish they would add shortstvhd also.

 

[Bobby]

maybe we will get this channel next month who knows?they can add it in HD and also add the ondemand channel.i wish they would add shortstvhd also.

We had Shorts before, in HD, and it went away because hardly anyone watched it. I watched it a bit but shorts are an acquired taste....

 

[dfergie]

I watched a little bit of Smithsonian last night from my DIRECTV sub, since they forced Leno out & Craig quit I find my self watching this channel before bed after Dave...

 

[charlesrshell]

I watched a little bit of Smithsonian last night from my DIRECTV sub, since they forced Leno out & Craig quit I find my self watching this channel before bed after Dave...

How did you like it?

 

[dfergie]

Monday night watched a little Air Disaster, Tuesday a little WWII Stalins troops holding off the blitkrieg, last night, Kalihari desert stuff, enough variety to satisfy me since History has little to no history, Discovery umm,

 

[charlesrshell]

Monday night watched a little Air Disaster, Tuesday a little WWII Stalins troops holding off the blitkrieg, last night, Kalihari desert stuff, enough variety to satisfy me since History has little to no history, Discovery umm,

WOW, those sound like good shows.

 

[dfergie]

Sunday's Air Disaster (new ) has the Potomac Crash ... timer set for of course.

 

[TheKrell]

Sunday's Air Disaster (new ) has the Potomac Crash...

At the time I was working in the paper-clip building in Pentagon City with a window office facing the Potomac. Fortunately I wasn't in my office to watch that disaster in real time.

 

[dfergie]

Shows on my dvr's & upcoming I like, sure SMITH has repeats, what channel doesn't in this age, plus I've never seen anything Kardassian related on this channel ...

 

[charlesrshell]

Shows on my dvr's & upcoming I like, sure SMITH has repeats, what channel doesn't in this age, plus I've never seen anything Kardassian related on this channel ...

Thanks dfergie, I think I will call my sister-n-law in Florida and have her set some timers up. She has a Slingbox attached to her Verizon FiOS DVR so I can watch the shows.

 

[charlesrshell]

Now that we have lost CBS PTAT AutoHop, is the Smithsonian Channel coming soon?

 

[thomasjk]

Now that we have lost CBS PTAT AutoHop, is the Smithsonian Channel coming soon?

AutoHop is delayed 7 days per the new contract not gone.