Dish Network to drop TWC from 214, carragie dispute

[jrhtwc]

wtf... this is confusing. So Dish plans to get rid of TWC, yet they save it and plans to keep both TWC and The Weather Cast? I was honestly hoping things would go as planned earlier. And I don't see anything that says TWC will remain on Dish.

Lookon TWC's Face book page

[toxictwister00]

If that's the case they need to stop advertising it on their website.

[TWCToday]

They just took down their page http://www.dishnetwork.com/weather/

[weathrlver]

Not much info here, but Paul Douglas (and his 2 year old company WeatherNation) is the one fronting The Weather Cast...

@pdouglasweather: Just launched competition for TWC on Dish. Could sure use your support - check it out and spread the word. Another weather voice in town!

I'll keep watching, cause Douglas and his company are located in the Twin Cities... theres gotta be something popping up in the local papers about it soon...

[TWCToday]

Nothing official on TWC staying yet but we shall see

[Joe The Dragon]

As a DISH customer myself, I really don't care. I agree with DISH's reasons for doing this, and I don't think that TWC is worth that extra penny per month...if that's what it is. I'll have a real rant on my blog. Here's your disclaimer: there'll be a LOT of <censored>s.

EDIT: Posted.

Don't forget to make fun of dish RSN HD joke as well.

[TWCToday]

With the loss of DISH, TWC could loose 1/6th of its viewers. Quite a big chunk

[Darr'chelle]

If we estimate Dish is 14 million subs and we know TWC just became the second cabler to pass the 100 million mark behind TBS...

that is just under 3/20 or under 1/6 of subs to lose.

But as I said, those who play Charlie Ergen Curveball always surrender.

[willh699]

it's Midnight Eastern Time, and The Weather Channel is still on, i wonder which time zone they meant was when it was gonna go off

[Darr'chelle]

If any time, maybe Mountain or Pacific. Dish Network's HQ and uplink facilities are in Denver and Cheyenne.

[Anistorm]

it's Midnight Eastern Time, and The Weather Channel is still on, i wonder which time zone they meant was when it was gonna go off

Pacific? 

[TWCToday]

TWC page
http://www.weather.com/tv/programs/CustomerMessage.html

Lame video trying to use the sadness and destruction of the past tornado outbreaks so they can make money

[Darr'chelle]

TWC page
http://www.weather.com/tv/programs/CustomerMessage.html

Lame video trying to use the sadness and destruction of the past tornado outbreaks so they can make money

In other news...they didn't forecast it, the NWS did.

[willh699]

12:12 AM Central time and it's still on, and now we see if The Weather Channel is removed from the Dish Lineup at 1AM Central time or 2AM Central time.

[weathrlver]

12:12 AM Central time and it's still on, and now we see if The Weather Channel is removed from the Dish Lineup at 1AM Central time or 2AM Central time.

According to http://www.deadline.com/hollywood,

UPDATE: DISH reportedly has agreed to keep The Weather Channel on while the two sides continue to negotiate.

Meanwhile... I know this is a Weather Channel board... but it might be worth reading what the founder of the new "The WeatherCast" station has to say... its a little long so I will just send you the link to the statement: http://pauldouglassaintcloud.blogspot.com/

Powerful statement, especially where he says

There are what, 6-8 different new/business channels out there - I believe there's room for another weather-voice, another way to tell the weather story.