To All Canadian Shaw Direct Subscribers.
This pertains to Canadian Shaw Direct Customers who use Shaw Direct Customers. I called Shaw Direct to purchase a 75CM dish and in the course of the conversation, I learned that Shaw Direct, as of M...
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SCVJeff wrote:
They’re a private company and can do what they want and don’t need to justify it. They probably decided that this is out of their service area, so why waste time dealing with people not within the country buying the goods and products of the vendors in Canada that support Shaw in the 1st places. ie- There is nothing at all in it for them, and it’s a time waster for staff.
This is the same reason that in the US, you cannot see out of market feeds unless you have a waiver to do so. The advertisers want the eyeballs in the local market, not some other out of market carrier that steals the eyeballs. It’s also entirely possible that the US networks are involved in the Shaw decision for the same reasons, and is likely partially responsible for the realignment of the footprint.
In all likelihood, Dish and Direct TV went to the FCC and cried the blues but I doubt it. Dish actually made a deal with Bell ExpresVu in Canada to lock out any Canadian Bell subscriber who is watching Bell service in the US. I've yet to learn of any US Dish customer having been cut off because that customer was watching his Dish Service on the Canadian side of the border.
As I previously mentioned Shaw has 3 satellites in service and the 3rd is the new one with higher shine or footprint. The other 2 shine as far south as Mexico City and those footprints aren't going to change.
