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mwgiii
03-05-04, 04:12 PM
:biggthump :biggthump for creating the Sky Angel Forum.
Chris Blount
03-05-04, 05:12 PM
You are very welcome! I was going to do it earlier today but got involved with something else.

I didn't realize the Sky Angel forums were gone so I guess it couldn't hurt opening this place.

Enjoy and thanks to all for suggesting this forum.
TNGTony
03-05-04, 05:50 PM
For the folks asking "What is Sky Angel?" go here http://ekb.dbstalk.com/251

See ya
Tony
Richard King
03-05-04, 06:50 PM
Chris... can you make a closed sticky at the top of this forum with TNG's topic?
rcwilcox
03-05-04, 07:51 PM
Yes thank you for this. From time to time it is a needed forum. Any news on the Dish Sky Angel lawsuit?
Chris Blount
03-05-04, 11:16 PM
Chris... can you make a closed sticky at the top of this forum with TNG's topic?

Done!
krazy k
03-06-04, 07:38 AM
Thanks chris for making this thread per my request,
I missed having a sky angel thread, since they took it off,
Thanks Again
hankh
03-06-04, 01:51 PM
Thank you, Chris, for adding this tread. I am not much of a talker, but do read the
forums regularly.
narnia777
03-06-04, 10:17 PM
Thanks from me also. I don't post alot but read most of the forums daily, and this one was needed.

Jim
TNGTony
03-07-04, 11:23 PM
Any news on the Dish Sky Angel lawsuit?

Sorry I didn't see this question earlier.

Last I heard, some time this month Dish and SA were going into binding arbitration to settle the matter. I don't have a date.

For those out of the loop, Dish dropped all the Daystar local channels in exchange for putting the national Daystar channel up on the Public Interest block (9408). The same thing pretty much happened for FamilyNet. (9414).

The problem is that Dish and SA have a contract where SA can't show channels with predominantly secular programming and Dish can't get channels with predominantly Christian/Missionary content (except EWTN, TBN and Angel 1).

Sky Angel sued Dish to get Daystar and FamilyNet taken off (SA already has Daystar and a FamilyNet affiliate). SA won the first round. Dish was ordered to take Daystar and FamilyNet off their service by the courts. But the next business day, Dish got a TRO vacating the lower court's decision pending appeal. And that is where we are now.

See ya
Tony