DISH Network delivers inauguration mix channel of its own, plus more

Not one to be outdone by its fiercest rival, DISH Network has seen DirecTV's Inauguration Mix Channel and raised it free access to HBO's exclusive coverage of the Opening Celebration on Sunday, January 18th. Yep, starting this Sunday (that's tomorrow for those on the right coast), DISH subscribers will be able to tune into HBO's SD and HD slots in order to see a plethora of musical performances and speeches by the likes of Beyonce, Bono, Herbie Hancock, John Legend, Jamie Foxx, Martin Luther King III, Queen Latifa and Denzel Washington. At the strike of midnight on Inauguration Day (January 20th), it'll offer up live feeds of six news networks on channel 100: FOX News Channel (Ch. 205), CNN (Ch. 200), MSNBC (Ch. 209), CNN Headline News (Ch. 202), CSPAN (Ch. 210) and CSPN2 (Ch. 212). Curiously, there's no mention if the mosaic will link to high-def feeds of said news channels, but if so, we'd say DirecTV just met its match.

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[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2009 11:57AM]

This looks like an appropriate forum to express my desire for FoxNewsHD on dish.

PLEASE.

[MattDing Posted Jan 17th 2009 1:36PM]

Since DirecTV subscribers have had free HBO since Thursday and continuing through Sunday it sounds more like an attempt to call rather than a raise.

[mugatu Posted Jan 17th 2009 3:31PM]

Dish Network is of course not giving us a free HBO preview weekend, or I can't find it. Dish Network catch phrase: "Giving you just enough to keep you."

--I agree, Fox News and Fox Business News HD. I want it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2009 5:54PM]

Dish doesn't say that the mosaic will be in HD, which means that it will be SD. DirecTV's will be HD, plus DirecTV has had all of the HBO channels up for free since Thursday. Dish is feebly trying to match DirecTV, but DirecTV clearly won this battle.