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tkrandall
10-05-07, 08:52 AM
I noticed my HR20 is getting the Outdoor channel. Why would that be? I do not subscribe to a sports pack. I have an older Total Choice Plus package.
say-what
10-05-07, 09:08 AM
My guess would be that they moved it to the lower packages if nothing's changed in your subscriptions.
Mixer
10-05-07, 09:28 AM
I am not seeing Outdoor or The Outdoor Channel listed at all in any of the packages on D*s website.
philslc
10-05-07, 09:45 AM
I am not seeing Outdoor or The Outdoor Channel listed at all in any of the packages on D*s website.

Channel 606 on my HR20
ansky
10-05-07, 10:33 AM
I'm getting it too. They must have moved it out of the Sports Pack and into the Choice packages.
fade2black
10-05-07, 10:40 AM
Channel 606 on my HR20

ditto...
Redlinetire
10-05-07, 11:49 AM
I just noticed this the other day as well...
pigskins
10-05-07, 12:08 PM
Maybe they're telling us to get out more.

:D
cw18306
10-05-07, 12:34 PM
I've been getting the Outdoor channel for many months now. Seems like over a year.
LMckin
10-05-07, 12:55 PM
I noticed my HR20 is getting the Outdoor channel. Why would that be? I do not subscribe to a sports pack. I have an older Total Choice Plus package.


They are having Choice Xtra Free Preview this weekend that could be reason I also have the old Total Choice Plus Package. and it was on showing also on my standard recivers.
ChrisPC
10-05-07, 02:03 PM
I started getting it a few days ago also. I guess they moved it to basic just like Golf and VS last year.
kaysersoze
10-05-07, 03:34 PM
Outdoor has been moved fro the sports pack the the choice xtra and above packages.
ansky
10-05-07, 03:45 PM
Outdoor has been moved fro the sports pack the the choice xtra and above packages.
They should move the entire "sports pack" into the Choice package. I can't see paying $12/month for ESPNU, Gol TV, Fox Soccer, and the few other channels that sports pack offers. Plus most of the non-local programming on the RSNs is blacked out anyway.
betterdan
10-05-07, 04:13 PM
I've been getting the Outdoor channel for many months now. Seems like over a year.

Same here.
hengnv
10-05-07, 04:26 PM
They should move the entire "sports pack" into the Choice package. I can't see paying $12/month for ESPNU, Gol TV, Fox Soccer, and the few other channels that sports pack offers. Plus most of the non-local programming on the RSNs is blacked out anyway.

+1
jamieh1
10-05-07, 09:51 PM
If they keep on, all the sports channels will be in the TC packages,
SPEED, GOLF, CSTV, VS, TVG all use to be in the sports pack.
Stuart Sweet
10-05-07, 10:02 PM
Hey, it's nice to get a new channel for nothing!
lman
10-06-07, 05:35 AM
I'm not getting this channel. I have the total choice package.
jamieh1
10-06-07, 07:10 AM
Its most likely in the EXTRA PACKAGE.
LMckin
10-06-07, 11:40 AM
Is anybody else getting the Sport Time Ohio Channel i getting it in my Total Choice Plus Package.
tftc22
10-06-07, 11:48 AM
Is anybody else getting the Sport Time Ohio Channel i getting it in my Total Choice Plus Package.

I've been getting STO for the last few days in the Total Choice package.
jamieh1
10-06-07, 02:53 PM
Getting it here in NC
kaysersoze
10-08-07, 12:36 PM
They should move the entire "sports pack" into the Choice package. I can't see paying $12/month for ESPNU, Gol TV, Fox Soccer, and the few other channels that sports pack offers. Plus most of the non-local programming on the RSNs is blacked out anyway.

The problem with this is the channels still cost D*, so moving them to a different package would necessitate a price increase for that package. This is the reason Comcast and otheres get into fights with NFL Network, and the Big Ten Network about which package the programming will go into.

Since most customers (including yourself) do not care about these channels enough to be to pay for them, D* has made the decision to only charge those cutomers who do.
jhillestad
10-08-07, 11:58 PM
The problem with this is the channels still cost D*, so moving them to a different package would necessitate a price increase for that package. This is the reason Comcast and otheres get into fights with NFL Network, and the Big Ten Network about which package the programming will go into.

Since most customers (including yourself) do not care about these channels enough to be to pay for them, D* has made the decision to only charge those cutomers who do.

Spoken like a true DTV employee , sir.

Remember folks DTV promises you nothing... so read the fine print.
kaysersoze
10-09-07, 06:54 PM
Spoken like a true DTV employee , sir.

Remember folks DTV promises you nothing... so read the fine print.

When logic fails throw out some red herrings. :nono2:
ansky
10-09-07, 06:58 PM
Are people still getting STO? I don't see why this would be part of a Choice package as it is an RSN.
LMckin
10-13-07, 04:47 PM
Are people still getting STO? I don't see why this would be part of a Choice package as it is an RSN.


It still on In my old Total choice Plus package.
betterdan
10-13-07, 05:09 PM
Yep, still getting it here just as I was a month or 2 ago.
dishrich
10-14-07, 12:20 AM
I bet the reason why Outdoor was added to xtra paks, (I'm getting it too, on my old TC+ pkg) is because it's supposed to be added in HD, at least according to this:

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=104057 (post#4)

Since the extra paks obviously have more subs than the sports pak, D* & TOC probably cut this deal to get it moved into a lower tier, so BOTH the HD & SD channels would have more eyeballs. Since D* is tiering their HD channels that have an SD counterpart on a given package, it would not make sense to put TOC on the HD xtra pak, & TOC probably was NOT happy that the ONLY customers that would get either station are the SP subs.

You know the next channel in the SP I bet that gets moved in the x-tra paks - ESPN U, especially considering ESPN wants (& usually gets) ALL their channels in broader tiers, & that E* has it on AT250, which is somewhat equivalent of choice/TC xtra paks. ;)