Free Pay-Per-View Movie and a Buck

[jdmart]

Charlie is giving subscribers a free Pay-Per-View Movie coupon and a buck credit in their April bills for the 36 hour Viacom interruption. You can read his note at the link below:

http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/programming/updates/index.shtml
You may have to copy and paste the link.

 

[Mr Tony]

um
All threads that are the Dish Netork/Viacom has their own area
see this sticky

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=9623

 

[ROLLTIDE]

Can we use the coupon for PPV porn ?

 

[BobMurdoch]

Nope, probably just the $3.99 and under movies.......

No Lingerie Bowl reruns for you, sorry!

 

[Kevinw]

My son wants to apply it towards Wrestlemania XX

 

[Mr Tony]

My son wants to apply it towards Wrestlemania XX

Unfortunatelly, the 3.99 wont even put a small dent in what ol Vinnie Mac wants for that...

49.95

 

[Mr Tony]

Can we use the coupon for PPV porn ?

good idea

 

[jlhugh]

I got a years worth of those coupons laying around the house. I wonder if netflix will redeam them?

 

[jdmart]

Hey, all I thought was coming was a buck; and for a 36 hours black-out of Viacom channels I wouldn't watch anyway that's fine. Throw in the Free pay-per-View Movie and that's sweet. I can record the best PPV movie coming up before the coupon's expiration on my 508 in the family room and 510 in the bedroom and watch it when I want on my schedule. I guess I'm just a hopeless optimist.

 

[Stargazer]

It looks as if we got $5 worth for the loss of the Viacom channels for a few days ($4 PPV, $1 Discount, $5 Total).

 

[jerryez]

The one dollar will cost Charlie over 9 million dollars, the PPV coupon cost him nothing.

 

[snathanb]

I'm sure he can handle the buck (or 2 in my case). I wonder if Charlie got a prorated discount for the amount of time he didn't carry Viacom. Wouldn't be suprised. Of course, it also wouldn't suprise me to see Charlied file suit against Viacom to recoup the discounts. Though, I bet there was a clause in the agreement that handled that.

 

[Stargazer]

$9 million to him is probably like $1 to us. The prorated time without service would not have paid that much per sub but Dish could have made Viacom pay the money to make up for their messages and loss of customers due to their actions.