Will Dish Customers Soon Lose The Young and the Restless, The Talk and The Bold and the Beautiful?
By Jamey Giddens on September 12, 2012
Victor Newman doesn't have anything on CBS Chief Les Moonves! Broadcasting's most successful current exec is threatening to pull CBS content off Dish Network if the satellite provder doesn't stop promoting its Hopper DVR.
Victor Newman doesn't have anything on CBS Chief Les Moonves! Broadcasting's most successful current exec is threatening to pull CBS content off Dish Network if the satellite provder doesn't stop promoting its Hopper DVR.
This would mean Dish customers would no longer be able to watch CBS programs like The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Talk and Big Brother, the latter two programs which are anchored by Moonves' wife Julie Chen. Who do you think will back down first, Moonves or Dish?
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25 October 2011
18 weeks 4 days
I love corporate wars...makes me miss Y&R of old even more.
Anyway, it's time that the programmers and andvertisers come up with a new way to determine advertising dollars. Technology has overtaken the old system. You can't stop progress Moonves...times have changed.
12 December 2008
23 hours 7 min
I think these a**holes fight way too much and its the customer who always looses. People pay a lot of money for cable and shouldn't have to worry about millionaires fighting over their petty crap.
31 January 2011
10 weeks 4 days
Les is very proud of CBS being Number 1 in advertising so I can imagine his irritation. However, can we get a cable provider whose immune to the BULLSHIT. MY GOD, it's hard out there to find a cable provider who isn't spotty with the channels they provide.
29 August 2010
14 weeks 20 hours
As a Dish customer I can say I personally don't think I would mind it because all of those shows are so bad right now I can't watch them. Which is sad because I was 3rd generation ride or die with CBS soaps.
Les needs to realize most people fast forward through commercials anyway so what does it matter if Dish has a DVR that does it for you.
Now on the other foot Dish needs to stop with their pissing contest with the AMC channels so I can get my WE TV back I'm missing the new season of Braxton Family Values and I'm not happy.
30 April 2009
16 hours 21 min
This is interesting. Is CBS the only one threatening this? I thought there were a lot of providers that were pissed off about that product? That being said...I think the advantage goes to CBS. If a CBS loyalist wanted to watch their shows, they could cancel Dish with a quickness and watch CBS on free air...couldn't they?
15 August 2011
2 weeks 1 day
I WOULDNT HAVE DISH OR DIRECT TV. EVERY TIME IT GETS CLOUDY IT GOES OUT AND THEN TOOK FOREVER FOR IT TO COME BACK AND NOW EVERYTIME YOU TURN AROUND ONE OF THEM ARE TAKING CHANNELS AWAY. THANK GOODNESS I DONT HAVE TO DEAL WITH EITHER.
25 August 2008
4 hours 48 min
I like the ad model. I'll keep clicking banners and watching tv with ads (most of the time) if it means the corporations will keep footing the bill for production. I don't want to see more product placement or in show pop ups.
24 May 2012
13 weeks 5 days
Not in my area, I'd lose it. No such thing as over the air here (upstate NY)...even with an antenna box I can't get CBS without my dish, or I'd need to get cable.
7 February 2012
8 hours 28 min
CBS=VIACOM
They were threatening Direct TV was going to lose Nickelodeon not too long ago.
Nothing new here people. SSDD
2 December 2011
5 min 30 sec
It's times like these that I truly don't miss cable.
Years ago, I remember the whole dust up between Food Channel, HGTV and the cable company I had subscribed to (they don't even rate a mention).
Years later and I can't even keep track of these disputes, it just seems to be as if this will be a regular occurrence for the foreseeable future. As cable companies try to squeeze new revenue and channels and production companies try to do the same, the customer inevitable will pick up the tab.
These television shows would be wise to promote links with the likes of Google Play, Netflix, Hulu, etc to offer more ease of access to streaming on a earlier time frame. Now that the various TV companies are now banding together to develop a unified system to offer more advanced links to wireless and streaming connections, networks would be wise to strengthen links to these companies and their technologies as an option in case their relationships with Cable Operators begin to sour again, perhaps with a stalemate that lasts even longer with an uncertain time frame for resolution.
29 October 2009
1 day 4 hours
My Grandma is going to go OFF!
20 March 2011
1 hour 37 min
This is why I pay through the nose for Comcast. CBS? *shrugs* I couldn't function without AMC.
28 November 2008
3 weeks 4 days
I haven't had my CBS station for over a week, thanks to a feud between Dish and whatever company owns the CBS station. It is making me mad... I am wanting to see every minute of Susan Flannery since I know she is exiting and I actually am interested in seeing what JFP & JG do with the folks in Geneoa City!
12 April 2009
30 weeks 20 hours
Pulling CBS off Dish would come back to bite Moonves in the behind. Does he really think that people would cancel their satelite because he threatens to pull CBS off. I know I for one wouldn't. I need my satelite to be able to watch something besides the all these horribly boring talk shows that are on the networks now. I could just watch Y&R and B&B on CBS.com. Once those two shows are over for the day, I am looking for a movie or a favorite rerun on my satelite anyway.
And if he is doing this because people could more easily fast forward through commercials, what does he think people are doing now? For me commercials are a bathroom break, a time to fix a snack, a time to get clothes out of the dryer or put them in the washer, a time to wash a few dishes, well you get the picture.