Viacom Channels down on DirecTV & Dish

[smorg2]

Well, for some reason most Viacom stations are off the air..

MTV/MTV2/VH1/VH1Classic/CMT/TVLand/NickE/NickW

Not sure why, but it's kinda interesting..

-Morgan

[Richssat]

Work fine here on D*. Might be something wrong with your sat system

RR

[Scott Greczkowski]

Nothing wrong with the users system, there was a outtage of all Viacom channels this morning, they were even out on cable TV.

From what I see things are fixed now. :D

[Mike123abc]

I wonder if their uplink site was having problems (like power)?

[FRUSTRATEDISH]

Dish and Viacom / and I think CBS as well - not sure if cbs and viacom are related but there is a contract impasse between dish and viacom/cbs. Dish does not want to pay what Viacom wants. Call dish and or viacom to complain and get them off the ol dollar. Supposedly dish will give you a buck off the bill or something. But most frustrating is we can't watch survivor this week because of the cbs involvement..GRRR

[Karl Foster]

I was at home an hour ago for lunch and all my Viacom stations worked perfectly.

[jdspencer]

This is only a contractual problem between Dish Network and Viacom.

Check a thread in the dish Network forum.

[jerry downing]

Be thankful the merger did not go through or you would be in the same mess that we who have E* are