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Again, from the forum:

Well, this morning Dish Network aparently officially cut out the Viacom stations from its lineup. I heard it on Eric & Kathy this morning. So, I turned on the tube and flipped over to channel 2, and what do you know, there’s the Dish Network CEO talking about how Viacom and CBS2 are unfairly ensuring that we (Dish Network viewers) don’t have Viacom stations without paying a good chunk of change for them. He also stated that we’d receive a $1 credit on our monthly statement for the loss of the Viacom stations.

What a crock. This is what happens when large media conglomerates gain too much power - they can unfairly throw their weight around to make demands that help only them, not the viewing public. Both Echostar and Viacom are guilty of this, IMO.

So, I was watching MTV while I was finishing up some work on my mom’s computer. Hillary Duff’s Come Clean video was on, so I was really only half watching at the time, but a message was scrolling across the bottom of the screen and it caught my eye. As I was reading it, I noticed that the message was scrolling behind the SPANKING NEW box, leading me to believe that the message was being scrolled across by MTV. That was weird to me, because the message was saying something about Dish Network threatening to remove MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, and some other channels. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to read the entire message, as a black bar suddenly appeared at the bottom of the screen. The bar’s sole purpose seemed to be to block out that message, and make the screen appear as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Now, some people might call me paranoid, but I think the Dish Network was censoring MTV or whomever was posting that message at the bottom of the screen. I sure as hell would be upset with Dish Network if they took MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and other similar channels from their lineup. I’d be upset enough to cancel my Dish Network service, and refuse to pay the early termination fees. Did anyone else see this? Comment on the forum.