Vooms Sues Dish Network

[rad]

"EchoStar, the sister company of Dish Network, actually owns Voom's satellite and has an equity stake in Voom's 15-channel programming suite." --TVPredictions.com 3/27/08

Has it gotten so bad that Charlie is suing himself????

:haha:haha:haha

 

[Mojo]

Is that the Fat Lady I hear warming up in the background?

 

[drummerguy]

Is that the Fat Lady I hear warming up in the background?

Nah, it's just Charlie crying into his soup.

 

[tawhite]

Is there anybody who hasn't sued his ass?

 

[Mojo]

Are any of the voom channels available on cable or Fios?

 

[rad]

Are any of the voom channels available on cable or Fios?

IIRC, Cablevision added V* channels to some of their cable systems.

 

[riffjim4069]

Are any of the voom channels available on cable or Fios?

Nope! There are a few channels available in Asia/Canada as well as some content distribution deals, but that's about it.

 

[riffjim4069]

IIRC, Cablevision added V* channels to some of their cable systems.

Oops! Forgot about that one.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

An update...

Rainbow Media Holdings Files Suit vs. Dish Network - 2/27/2008 12:57:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable

 

[navychop]

When I grow up I wanna be a Dish Network lawyer.

Those might be mutually exclusive.

 

[hrxtreme]

Stupid... sue the sister company of the company that owns the sat your channels are broadcasted on... that sounds like a bad idea...

 

[ccash]

So much for MSG HD & FSN HD anytime soon eh?

 

[abricko]

I like having the Voom channels...

They are lucky E* kept them because they'd have been gone by now, their Sat service died, no one else picked up on them other than E* they shouldn't bite the hand that feeds them.

 

[BFG]

how much are the cablevision subs to have all the hd channels and voom, is it also $20 a month. Voom is killing dish so they had to cut them off so they could go back to a $10 service fee to try to compete with directv

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Voom sucks! How lame is this lawsuit? If voom would put out some quality HD programming,and not Massive repeats,Voom wouldn't be in this battle!. See the people have spoken and E* heard it loud and clear ,and Now Doing the right thing,Getting this crappy poor excuse for HD programming off,and putting it where it belongs! By its self! I'm with E* all the way on this one ,Smartest thing I've heard them say yet. I don't see how VOOM could win. Give the Judge the Voom package for $20 and say here watch this for 24 hours. Judge would watch it for about 4 hours and rule in favor of E*. No question in my mind about it!

 

[adamwilkes20]

lets not forget that the previous owner also sued his dad so he could sell the Voom satellite to Echostar.

 

[mdonnelly]

The issue isn't the quality of the product (and 15 channels of 24/7 HD ain't hay), it's how the contract between Dish and VOOM is written. If it specifically says that the VOOM channels must be present in every HD package that Dish offers, then VOOM has a good case.

 

[rjruby]

As long as I can still get my MonstersHD I don't care.

Even the MonsterHD channel has become quite repetitive lately.
The EPG has been quite inaccurate also lately.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

The issue isn't the quality of the product (and 15 channels of 24/7 HD ain't hay), it's how the contract between Dish and VOOM is written. If it specifically says that the VOOM channels must be present in every HD package that Dish offers, then VOOM has a good case.

VOOMs got to take what it can get and Live with it. Without E* Voom would only have Cablevision. That would make Voom disappear. I doubt anyother provider has any interest in voom,If they Did everyone would have it.Vooms on its last breath ,and they know it. It is the quality of the product in E* eyes,If it wasn't Voom would continue untouched in its current package.

 

[wetz73]

If Voom goes, where can we watch the 850th replay of the U.S. playing Puerto Rico in basketball at the Pan-American Games?