Good As You

I had Dish for several year, but only because it was the only Satellite that I could get any reception from. My house was on the bank of a creek in a Redwood forest, and there was one (very small) gap between the branches that allowed me to get a view of their satellite. I asked Dish to carry logo several times, but to no avail. But, at the same time, they had close to a dozen religious channels. In the future, my vote would be NO on Dish.

But, DirecTV, on the other hand...

While Dish claims to be public, it's leaders have very close ties to religious organizations. The vote to deny equal protection to gay employees should be a clear signal to any GLBT customers that their dollars are not welcome. And in this economy, it matters where you spend your money. I have been a DirecTV customer for several years, and while I am no fan of Murdoch's News Crap, sorry, Corp., at least they play both sides of the fence by carrying Logo. Now if only we could convince them to carry here! and 10% gay porn, we'd be getting somewhere... And if you haven't checked out RuPaul's Drag Race, do it, and don't f**k it up!

If you're going to get satellite, there's no reason not to get DirecTV instead. I've had both. We got rid of Dish *because* we kept calling and asking them when they were going to be getting LOGO. "Soon, very soon" was the answer, every time. It became clear after a few years of this they had no intention of carrying the channel, but also wouldn't come right out and tell us that either. I've been very happy with DirecTV ever since.

Thanks for re-posting for your readers. It appears comment after comment I read on my blog, yours, or elsewhere that people have had issues with dish, clearly they have heard LGBT voices, but they refuse to recognize us.

We had DirecTV at our last apartment here in FL. I hate the way that the signal is bad enough for the picture to completely drop-out literally for minutes and sometimes hours at a time when the weather is bad. But that's a symptom of just about any satelite service.
I'd recommend cable over satelite for technological reasons, but most cable providers have become as bad (if not worse) as/than the phone company and DMV combined.
Big companies, and especially utilities that get granted exclusive franchises for a particular locality, keep giving less and less features, worse and worse customer service, and higher and higher fees, despite the savings to the companies of economies of scale and better technology. As with any and all big business these days, it's all about milking the public for as much as they can get out of us to give to their shareholders and CEOs.

JWSwift, I had that problem too. The wind would only have to be high enough to move one limb in the way, and my signal would drop. But I got a 24" reflector dish from a third party company, and after that, even in the absolutely worst driven rain and wind, I never lost the signal. Even when the power went out, I would turn on the generator and the neighbors would come over and it was a party.

Dish has been notoriously anti-gay for years and I thought everyone was aware of that. Any self-respecting gay or lesbian who subscribes to Dish is woefully uninformed. Please don't give them any of your money.