Folks,

Based on a recent thread here at Huntingnet.com, it has come to our attention that a number of you are disappointed about the recent developments regarding Men's Outdoors & Recreation (MOR) and Dish. Having read through the thread, it is also obvious that several of you have received inconsistent and, in some instances, erroneous information from Dish customer service reps. The following statement serves to clarify certain points relating to the current situation, and should you have any additional questions, please feel to post them here or visit our website at www.watchmor.com:

Due to continuing negotiations relating to the distribution our networks on Echostar’s Dish Network, the broadcast of TMG’s suite of networks, including Men’s Outdoors & Recreation (MOR), has been suspended on Dish. This unfortunate circumstance has occurred despite our efforts to maintain your ability to view our networks during these discussions. We are working directly with Echostar at the highest levels to resolve this issue and get our programming back on the air as soon as possible. Until that time, we find it necessary to clarify several points of information that our viewers have been told by Dish customer service representatives:

1)The Media Group did not suspend the delivery of our networks on Dish; Dish made the decision late Friday, July 13th, to suspend the broadcast of our networks.

2)MOR and Beauty & Fashion continue to broadcast on DirecTV, Channels 604 & 223, respectively. You can also find TMG’s networks on multiple Time Warner and other select cable systems. Please check with your cable or satellite provider for further details or to request one of our networks.

3)Although we are not at liberty to discuss the details of our negotiations with Dish, we can say that despite our understanding of Dish CSR comments to the contrary, the suspension of our networks has nothing to do with a TMG request for “more money”, as we have made no such request.

Our thanks for your continued support as we work to get the programs you love back on Dish.

The Executive Team at MOR

Tonight I talked to a supervisors boss, who actually spoke very good English instead of Indian or whatever the people who answer the phones speak(very hard to understand).

She told me pretty much the same thing. That they remain in negotiations with the owners of these channels about the rights to broadcast them. Since they want to charge me $104 to get out of my contract and switch to Direct TV, I am going to give them a little more time and live with TOC for now.

But if they don't get MOR back. They will have a fight on their hands getting any money from me to switch. After all they broke their end of the contrect by dropping MOR in the first place. And I told them so. They really didn't have an answer for that, except they were sorry and have had a lot of complaints because of this issue.

There may be hope of it coming back yet.

All I can say is that I'm glad our advertising dollars are being spent on shows that are airing on the Outdoor Channel, where people can still see them.

Furthermore, if Dish doesn't get this worked out soon I'll be placing a call to either DirecTV or Comcast. I've become quite fond of a few MOR shows lately.

I have called and emailed dish. If they dont get it back on i will be switching when my contract is up. I love both channels and the main reason I went was dish was the mens channel

rick

Dish better get it together and thanks for the update.

http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=525127

Guys...check out this link...this guy got ahold of some exec at dish and said if there is enough demand...they may add the channel back to the programming. This thread gives a phone number to call. I called it and sure enough...it went straight through. Not to their normal 15 minute wait.

Anyways....it can't hurt to call. I left a vm so maybe the guy will call me back.

Long live cable