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Originally Posted by MrPheer
doh.. I thought it was $129 a month... ok i was wrong about that, but still... why turn off the whole channel just to get people to pay extra to see something they were already offered in a basic programming package.
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Because Dish isnt doing it to sell more Center Ice. They are doing it because OLN is trying to screw cable providers into giving them status on the basic cable tier alongside ABC and NBC. In order to do that they have to raise prices and dont feel OLN is established enough to warrant that for their customers. OLN is trying to use the fact they got NHL to hold cable providers hostage and Dish is fighting them instead. Wanna bet OLN caves and is back on the air within the week. They cant afford to lose 12 million people.
The reality is that Oct 10th-11th OLN blackout'd the games to all viewers on cable companies that have their channel on a tier. They screwed over the NHL fans week #2 all in a power and money hungry struggle to get first class status from a 3rd rate channel.
Dish has done this before to channels like MTV and such and won the battle.