Shaw bumps CNBC to make way for Encore

Shaw has pulled off an amazing scam here. I have been working at various financial institutions in downtown Calgary for years. Each place has multiple TV's all watching CNBC daily. Now Shaw will make a killing by forcing all these companies to purchase the digital box for $200 or $11 a month. It is amazing they got away with this rip off. Its also amazing that Peter Bissonnette can say that he has received positive response from the crappiest movie channel ever made. The channel really does suck. And Peter Bissonnette cannot say honestly that CNBC had the lowest viewer ship compared to a lot of other crap channels. I am cancelling my membership with shaw and going to Bell who charges the exact same price - they install and give you a digital box for no additional fee. And guess what, more channels including CNBC. Shaw doesn't have he monopoly that they think they do. SHAME ON YOU SHAW!!!

I totally agree with you . I am so friggin pissed at them . Hope they go bankrupt.
The crtc is just a bunch of 2$ hookers

They followed this with the removal of The Golf Channel in favor of ANOTHER garbage Movie channel (AMC) that I was informed was "IN DEMAND"! In demand by who??? They moved The Golf Channel to Digital because they KNEW that TGC would begin broadcasting of PGA Tour Events in January of 2007! This FORCES the Highly Affluent market segment viewers to go to their Digital Cable service.. Shaw are unscrupulous and I wish them nothing but the success they so RIGHTLY DESERVE! They Deserve to go BANKRUPT!!!

"Highly Affluent market segment viewers" already have digital cable, you schmuck. All TV is going digital anyways and would have several years ago if it weren't for hicks like you.

As for the Golf Channel moves... jeezus.. golfers need to get a life. It's not natural to watch golf 24 hrs a day, play golf, AND live next to a golf course. Mentally ill, indeed.

Get a life.

Feb 19, 2007 @ 11:45 am by Michael Shandrick
Excerpted from Golf Logic
http://www.golflogic.ca/golf-blog/2007/02/19/...
re: Moving The Golf Channel
Like a lot of golf fans in Vancouver BC, I’ve always looked forward to watching the nightly news and features on the Golf Channel. This had become a ritual. Until poof, one night — it wasn’t on. Instead, I was looking into the screen of a black and white movie. Did I miss something? My favorite program was gone, and yet according to my bill, I was still paying the same rate.
I called the corporate headquarters in Calgary and left a message for Mr. Peter Bissonnette, President, Shaw Communications. I wanted to know why Shaw would take what it had called “an unpopular channel” off the air and then use it to forcibly migrate users to its new digital cable terminal (DCT).
Why wouldn’t Shaw tell its customers beforehand that they were migrating certain programs away from us? Why didn’t we get an offer to pay only a small upgrade fee and keep our program. This is what technology companies do, and they do it all the time.
But then it occurred to me that maybe the Golf Channel was the most popular show on the nightly line-up. Maybe Shaw hoped people would give up complaining, accept the inevitable and eventually pay even more money to watch the Golf Channel. It’s worked before, several times with other programs, it might work again.
I got an e-mail reply from Customer Care at Shaw Communications recently. The first excuse was that the Golf Channel was no longer popular among its majority of viewers and the second reason it was moved was because of regulatory requirements.
The net result: If you want to see the Golf Channel on Shaw Cable you need only rent a Digital Cable Terminal (DCT) at $11.95 per month, plus a security deposit ($50). You go to the nearest Shaw retail store, pick up a DCT and install it yourself. While you’re there you can purchase an econo digital version for $98. If you want a DCT with a full digital read-out and all the bells and whistles it will cost just $248. Oh, I may not have mentioned that the Golf Channel itself is now on “free preview” status on DCT. You will have to pay for the channel later on. Of course if you want to move up to Tier 3, where the Golf Channel rules, then you pay some more.
Whatever their reasoning at Shaw Communications, it is an imperfect lie.

paul wrote:

Shaw has pulled off an amazing scam here. I have been working at various financial institutions in downtown Calgary for years. Each place has multiple TV's all watching CNBC daily. Now Shaw will make a killing by forcing all these companies to purchase the digital box for $200 or $11 a month. It is amazing they got away with this rip off. Its also amazing that Peter Bissonnette can say that he has received positive response from the crappiest movie channel ever made. The channel really does suck. And Peter Bissonnette cannot say honestly that CNBC had the lowest viewer ship compared to a lot of other crap channels. I am cancelling my membership with shaw and going to Bell who charges the exact same price - they install and give you a digital box for no additional fee. And guess what, more channels including CNBC. Shaw doesn't have he monopoly that they think they do. SHAME ON YOU SHAW!!!

The banks have been rippin the public off for years.It looks like you got your wish.Shaw will probabaly buy out Bell which is very poorly run

The financial institutions have been rippin off the public for years.ATM machines.Nobody asked for them.I remember the banks getting govt subsities for installing them.Its good to see Shaw has been asked to bid on Bell but i think it would be a bad choice as Bell and the banks have been rippin off the public for years.Theirs no free lunch out there and the whole world is going digital.

The only thing good about shaw is it's hardly offline.

Their prices are ridiculous. They spread the good channels over 3 tiers to suck people in. Would love to pay justfor the channels I watch in tier 2 and 3 instead of paying for a bunch of "paid programming channels".

Check at 11pm at night 50% everything is paid advertising.

Their movie central package is a freaking joke. 1 or 2 new movies a week.Same movies over and over.

Shaw lies and will take you for every penny you have. Fushaw.