Feeling persecuted by the evil librul media, Fox News asked viewers to ?make your voice heard!? by threatening to cancel their service with Dish Network should the station be blacked out if the two fail to agree on a new contract. It’s the free market at play and Fox isn’t too happy because they were in fact, blacked out.
We all know that Fox is a super-cereal, solid, fact-based station so it must be protected.
On Saturday, Fox News Channel and Fox Business were blacked out on satellite TV provider Dish Network.
‘Sources say’ that when that happened, America’s collective IQ skyrocketed.
Newsweek reports:
In a statement, Dish’s senior vice president of programming, Warren Schlichting, accused Fox News of attempting to increase fees for sports and entertainment channels during the contract’s negotiation, which did not include those channels.
?It’s like we’re about to close on a house and the realtor is trying to make us buy a new car as well,? said Warren Schlichting, Dish’s senior vice president of programming. ?Fox blacked out two of its news channels, using them as leverage to triple rates on sports and entertainment channels that are not in this contract.?
While Dish says the negotiations are continuing, and it has offered the two Fox channels a short term extension, Fox contends that Dish had prematurely blocked the channels. Fox News Channel vice president Tim Carry said in a statement that Fox?x blocking is in line with Dish’s history of failed negotiations, including a 12-hour CBS blackout earlier this month.
?It is disappointing that, after nearly two decades without a blackout, Fox News Channel has been blocked by Dish,? Carry said. ?This is the third time in as many months that Dish customers have suffered through a blackout due to Dish’s intransigence. Dish’s record speaks for itself, and makes its rhetoric about ?reasonable? agreements ring hollow.?
(my bold)
On a site which was created by Fox, it reads in part:
Despite the undeniable demand for FOX News Channel, DISH Network is threatening to put their corporate interests ahead of their customers, by blocking the most-trusted name in cable news.?
Relax Fox News, Corporations are people, my friend.
As reported here:
Previous black-outs have occurred in recent years between CBS, who additionally asked for more money from cable providers, and Dish Network as well as Time Warner Cable. Dish’s representative pointed out that these negotiations are very similar. ?This negotiation is no different than the negotiations we had with CBS,? she stated.
This comes just in time for holidays so Fox can deem this as just another battle in the War on Christmas.
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