Yeah… yeah, blah blah blah… nobody f’ing cares about your stupid rate increases. You’re both multi-billion dollar company’s with ridiculous amounts of money pouring from every orifice. As a loyal DirecTV subscriber and all-around fan of most Viacom channels… F-CK YOU BOTH!!!!!!
I am the public… I am the average American guy… I am the guy that busts my balls for 11hrs a day with work/cooking/home-work with the kids/cleaning/etc, wanting to simply sit down and watch a damn TV show for an hour or two to unwind before bed. Most importantly, I am the guy who religiously pays my bill on time, every month, month-after-month. WHY AM I GETTING HOSED?!?!?!
I feel like an orphaned kid on the side of a road hoping one of the two giant mega-grocery stores can see it in their hearts to spare me a crumb. What in god’s name has happened to customer loyalty and corporate responsibility? If DirecTV is going to drop Viacom channels from their line-up… then great, just come out and say you’re going to so we (the American consumer) can make an educated decision towards our choice in entertainment. But why let us all suffer because your lawyers are billing out $250/hour and are taking their sweet ass time getting the contract just right. If it’s DirecTV’s fault… I don’t care; if it’s Viacom’s fault… I don’t care! Just give me back my damn TV!!!! Quit holding the American people hostage for your retarded mind-games.
If you want to see the grudge-match in action you can see DirecTV Bullshit HERE… and Viacom Bullshit HERE. 
I’ve been fighting the final “cable cut” for some time now… but I will say this now with complete confidence… My Roku Box & Xbox360 are quickly becoming viable replacements for the bullshit that seems to happen more and more with satellite companies. QUICKLY BECOMING VIABLE!
DirecTV is becoming more of a problem every year with their phony commercials and increasing rates. but now this? Now people are paying the exact same amount for these channels when these just just deliver a phony message and video. I’m dang sure that i’m never using Direct again. Now i’m choosing between Dish and Comcast as I can’t go without MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central.
Thing that sucks is that Dish Network went through something pretty similar a couple of years ago with FOX. I say forget satellite providers all together and stay with local cable (who don’t have 2 yr contracts) or f’em all and stream everything. I have quite a few friends that do that and don’t miss a thing.
If they don’t want to give me the channels, I just wish they’d let me out of my stupid contract so that I can go find programming somewhere else! They flat out refused to waive the early termination fee, and pointed out that per contract they are allowed to raise my rates and cut my programming whenever it suits their business needs. I did manage to get a $20 bill credit for 6 months. Funny that they can afford $120 in bill credits, but waiving a $300 cancellation fee is just out of the question!
Ok, I absolutely agree. All they’re doing is losing money, on both sides. That paying for seperate networks is stupid to me. When I dropped showtime, I didn’t think I’d be missing much. Now I wish I hadn’t as a lot of good stuff comes on now. The reason I have the package that I got is because occassionally, good stuff comes on. And viacom sounds like a sniffling baby. I can just imagine them sticking their lips out saying unless you pay me more we won’t be your friends. GROW UP. I really don’t think they realize that in doing this whole thing, they’re losing money.
Viacom needs to also realize, that Spongebob isn’t what it use to be. Shortly after the Atlantis Sqaurepantis episode, their view rates have gone down considerably. So basing this whole campaign on a no more Spongebob thing is basically suicide on their part. The only real good ones have long since been run to death. Even I catch myself repeating the lines along with the characters.
While on the other hand, if directv really is trying their hardest, then the paying for whatever show you want to pay for shouldn’t have even been an option.
WE WORK HARD. TV IS ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THAT WE CAN DO ON A DAILY BASIS TO UNWIND. WE DON’T CARE WHO WINS, JUST FIND A WAY TO LET US WATCH WHAT WE WANT WITHOUT PAYING MORE.
I am a long customer of directv, and honestly, if this situation doesn’t resolve itself, that’s about to end, and I’ll just have to watch my favorite shows and movies on dvd. There’s no commercial breaks or idiot tv providers cutting into my prograhm.