Re: DTV losing Trio?

"Patty Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Von Fourche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    Is DirecTV going to loose the Trio channel?  
> 
> What causes you to think that this might happen?
> 
> Seems to me that with USA now owning the channel, it's in a much
> stronger position than it was before. For example, I'd expect it
> to now have a much better chance of getting on cable systems and 
> Dish Network. Why would DirecTV want to drop it?
>

I rarely watch Trio, but took a look today... 

The Trio channel is running a crawl with the following words:

DIRECTV's carriage agreement with Trio network expires on December 31st.
If we cannot reach an acceptable agreement by December 31st, Trio will no
longer be available to DIRECTV subscribers.
---end

Translation: Trio will lose about half of their subscriber base.
DirecTV is more important to Trio than Trio is to DirecTV.
Dropping Trio on DirecTV means 5 hours less Paid Programming
each day.