“When we take something down we’re prepared to leave it down forever. Things like CNN are not quite the product that they used to be. “
Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen was in rare form today in his quarterly earnings conference call with analysts and media — especially when asked about his battle with Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting.
All of its channels except for TBS and TNT went dark on the No. 2 satellite company on October 21 as a result of a contract dispute. And Ergen says he’s prepared to dig in his heels, including doing without CNN which he says is “not a top 10 network anymore. Unless they find the Malaysian plane.” His comments were so interesting that I’ve decided to include big blocks of them, instead of summarizing. Here you go …. http://www.mintpressnews.com
Dish drops everyone…….it’s a money grab scam.
And yet they have substituted Al Jazeera in it’s place.
I know -I am a subscriber and thinking of dropping them just for their taking on this piece of crap network.