Dish Network loses 7 Turner Broadcasting channels

Temporary. Both satellite providers do this about once a year when it comes time for contract renewal.

Regular and routine see who blinks first face off.

Really doesn't bother me since I rarely watch any of those. I do pay for them though. Wonder if I'll get reimbursed? :)

Doubt I'll miss the channels. Maybe Dish will pick up some new channels. CNN runs a lot of specials lately and not much news.

Won't miss anything Turner puts out.

I often wonder why they do this.. To my way of thinking the stations and networks should be paying DISH to deliver their programming instead of charging them to carry it.

You see this happening more and more these days. Everyone wants a bigger slice of the pie i.e. more money and this is how they negotiate. The only one who loses is us but they will be back and Turner will do the same thing with DirecTV when that contract is up.

I lost some of the Braves baseball games in 2013 and this year also. Dish kept telling me they were working on getting them back. Turns out Direct and my local cable company never lost any of them. Dish seems to think they should not have to pay the same as everyone else. I dropped them. I had been with them 14 years.

Bird Freak wrote:
I lost some of the Braves baseball games in 2013 and this year also. Dish kept telling me they were working on getting them back. Turns out Direct and my local cable company never lost any of them. Dish seems to think they should not have to pay the same as everyone else. I dropped them. I had been with them 14 years.

Who will you switch to when your current TV provider has their next unresolved contract dispute? Fairly recently, Direct lost The Weather Channel for three months, and TWC lost the CBS stations in some areas for a month over carriage fee contract disputes. Each service provider has carriage contracts that expire at different times, so it's not at all unusual for only one of them to lose certain channels at renewal time. The following year, a different service might lose the same channels for some period.

Drop those channels along with 100 other junk channels and reduce the price.