Re: OLN Gone From Dish Network

This same bull*** dispute is going on in the NYC metro area with Cablevision.
To get OLN on Cablevision in Connecticut you must:
1) Subscribe to Digital Cable (and extra 10 bucks a month)
2) Buy some stupid SportsPak, which consist of X-Treme sports and some College
FB channels for an extra $4.95/month.

The cable companies are the real villains here, they rather give me 10 shopping
channels on basic service rather than OLN. I can't wait to dump them once the
phone companies roll out fibre to home.

Klay Anderson <klay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Friday, October 21, 2005
>
>Dish Network Pulls Outdoor Life Network
>
>By SANDY SHORE
>
>DENVER - The owner of The Dish Network said Thursday it pulled the
>Outdoor Life Network from its system after the cable channel failed to
>provide NHL games to the nation's second-largest satellite television
>provider.
>
>EchoStar Communications Corp. spokesman Marc Lumpkin said the network did
>not show games on Oct. 10-11 and on Monday and Tuesday as advertised. "We
>were not given advance notice that they would not show the programming,"
>he said.
>
>Although best known for broadcasting the Tour de France and cyclist Lance
>Armstrong, OLN this fall took over broadcasting National Hockey League
>games on cable from ESPN, a unit of The Walt Disney Co.
>
>"We are surprised and disappointed that Dish has unilaterally chosen to
>stop providing OLN to its customers, and denied fans the opportunity to
>watch sports coverage on OLN," spokeswoman Amy Phillips said.
>
>The contract dispute between EchoStar and OLN revolves around OLN's
>placement in a higher-priced channel package by Dish Network, which is
>distributed to fewer viewers.
>
>OLN, owned by cable giant Comcast Corp., set a requirement that the
>channel must be seen by 40 percent of a cable or satellite TV system's
>viewers in order for it to broadcast the NHL games. It said the Dish
>Network has failed to meet that requirement.
>
>Lumpkin declined to comment on the specifics of the dispute.
>
>EchoStar would have to move the channel from its top package to a lower-
>cost package that may have fewer channels but more viewers. That would
>raise the fees Dish Network viewers pay.
>
>"We work hard to provide choice for customers and to keep prices low,"
>Eric Sahl, an EchoStar senior vice president, said in a statement. "Most
>of our customers have made the decision they do not want to pay the
>additional cost of watching the channel."
>
>EchoStar hasn't been afraid to take on networks before. In March 2004, it
>pulled Viacom Inc. programming _ including MTV, the Comedy Channel and
>Nickelodeon _ from the Dish Network for two days until an agreement was
>struck on a long-term contract.
>
>A service of the Associated Press(AP)

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