It's High Noon!!!

[Ronmort]

As far as I'm concerned it's "high noon" for Dish Network. If they don't announce the NBA League Pass today, I will get it from Directv through auto-renewal, and this means I get a second receiver from them, and bye-bye Dish. No more paying for two services. I am hoping to read something official later today from Dish, but I have my doubts.

[Reverend Ike]

Same here, Ronmort. The lack of any official information during the past two weeks has been ridiculous. Negotiations or not, they could have told us something. At least they're consistent - they've fumbled the ESPN Full Court badly also, giving customers the idea that they might not continue offering it this season.

I've called Customer Service once or twice daily for the past week, and only talked to someone with a clue on one occasion. I've talked to CSRs that had no idea what "NBA" was. Yesterday, I talked to a CSR that told me "We probably won't have anything like that because so many of the games are already on regular television". Unbelievable. Does Dish give their employees ANY training at all?

[andyf]

Just FYI, my TiVo got a channel lineup change yesterday that contained about 10-12 channels named NBA1 - NBAx.

[jeffwtux]

RevIke: I have been told that full court will be offered starting Nov 4. However, I agree they are stupid for not keeping it on their website even in the off-season. That is for potential customers who are big college hoops fans who may make a DBS decision in July based on having ESPN Full Court or not. That is stupid.

[alinford]

I just did a search of Echo's site and this page is active:
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/programming/ppv/sports_events/nba/index.shtml

There is no content yet, but they have created the page. This leads me to believe that they will be offering NBA LP this year

[AllenW]

The channels are showing up on Dish's EPG now in red from 561-571! Safe to say we are getting League Pass this year!

[TNGTony]

Free preview of AT LEAST the Cleveland Sacramento game tomorrow at 10pm EST

See ya
Tony

[Mark Holtz]

If only I had screen capture working on my video card...

[Ronmort]

Well I guess it wasn't "high noon" but more like "high midnight," but they have it, and that's all that counts. I'm pleasantly surprised by Charlie's conversion to offering the sports packages, and I feel a lot more comfortable with Dish.

[DarrellP]

Maybe Charlie knows something we don't, what with the Sports packs and the alternate LIL's he's been adding.

[jrjcd]

...but....but..but...i thought they didn't have any more bandwidth....

they weren't lying about that, were they????