Lifetime Get Some Black Caucus Backing

[Scott Greczkowski]

Lifetime Gets Some Black Caucus Backing

By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/27/2006 11:05:00 AM

Lifetime has enlisted the help of Congress in its fight to gain back carriage of its networks on EchoStar’s Dish network.

Eleven women members of the Congressional Black Caucus, all Democrats, have sent a letter to Dish CEO Charlie Ergen urging him, in the name of diversity, to bring back the two Lifetime networks that Dish dropped amidst a contract dispute Dec. 31. The members included Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), Diane Watson (D-Calif.), and Gwen Wisconsin (D-Wis.),


According to the CBC’s letter, by not carrying the networks, the satellite service “will further diminish the already inadequate diversity of channels and programming available to American viewers.”

Read the rest at http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6302552.html?display=Breaking+News

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

So now its not a woman thing.. its a black thing?

Give me a break.

Dish made them a good offer. it has NOTHING to do with WOMEN, it has nothing to do with BLACK WOMEN, it all has to do with MONEY!

Follow the money trail!

 

[goaliebob99]

If i was echostar I would sue lifetime for all this name throwing that lifetime is doing...

 

[Dgenx321]

Good to see that the democrats have nothing more to worry about than Lifetime TV.

I hope Dish never turns Lifetime back on.

Let them lose $100 million in ads.

 

[goaliebob99]

heres that ad.. and also heres a lifetimes responce to e* and the whole ala cart thing..

1/24/06 OPEN LETTER TO DISH SVP
January 24, 2006

Eric Sahl
Senior Vice President of Programming
EchoStar Communications Corporation
9601 S. Meridian Blvd.
Englewood, CO 80112

Dear Eric,
Thank you for your letter of yesterday.
We stand by our position that Lifetime, the #1 women's network, should be available to all DISH subscribers, without an extra à la carte charge.
Should EchoStar wish at any time in the future to restore Lifetime to its previous package at reasonable rates, please be assured that Lifetime remains open to your offers.
— Louise

 

[jimboeau]

Good to see that the democrats have nothing more to worry about than Lifetime TV.

I hope Dish never turns Lifetime back on.

Let them lose $100 million in ads.

At least they aren't raising your taxes

 

[riffjim4069]

At this point, both sides should go their separate ways and suffer the consequences, etc. While I still think Dish Network is mostly to blame for Lifetime being off-the-air, the issue is about money and has nothing to do with Mr. Ergen hating women. Lifetime has offered no credible proof to support their statements and their involving the participation of the Congressional Black Caucus is just plain wrong.

I think the message the Caucus is trying to send is that it's a Black Women Thing....which is also wrong! They can love Lifetime all the wish...just can't believe these gals are so stupid to blindly follow Louise. Ugh!

Again, I believe that Lifetime got bamboozled by Charlie, but their "Dump Dish" and "Dish Hates Women" campaigns are out of control.

 

[jeffwtux]

What I don't get is why Sheila Jackson Lee thinks Lifetime is liberal? Charlie is the DEM; Lifetime is run by GOPs.

 

[Kirby Baker]

Maybe the CBC should ask Lifetime networks to strive to achieve more racially diverse programming, as it seems only 2 of the 22 regular shows on Lifetime have black characters, one of those being a MAN! GASP!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Folks, again its not a BLACK, WHITES, YELLOW, RED issue.

Its an issue about the GREEN!

 

[riffjim4069]

Folks, again its not a BLACK, WHITES, YELLOW, RED issue.

Its an issue about the GREEN!

Oh Great! The bastards at Dish Network are now discriminating against Martians and Kermit the frog!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

It's not wasy being Green.

 

[Kirby Baker]

Ok, time to fire off an email to Charlie... I can deal with everything else, but when you start puttin down Kermit, I draw the line there!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I can see it now, Miss Piggy in the streets protesting Dish Network (and the cost of BACON!)

 

[Kirby Baker]

Mmmmmm, bacon!

 

[Cyclone]

Sounds like its Lifetime's time of the month.

 

[maximum]

At least they aren't raising your taxes

Not for lack of trying. I'm sure one day we'll see a subscription tax used to subsidize cable/satellite subscriptions for the "less fortunate"

 

[K4LK]

You know something, shoving political correctness and diversity down my throat makes me sick. Go Charlie

 

[Chris Walker]

So tired of hearing them argue, either settle it NOW or shut the hell up please. How much money is Lifetime throwing away with these slander ads? Give it up already.

 

[mwgiii]

Sounds like its Lifetime's time of the month.

:haha:haha

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