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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By WHUDS (BonaireTalker - Post #52) on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 8:39 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

What has Flamingo done now? It seemed to have Dropped TBS and BBC America as well as Discovery health? Replaced with Home shopping? YOu can't even buy the stuff advertised on the blinking TV What are they doing? We are now paying for pure crap!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By WHUDS (BonaireTalker - Post #53) on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 9:33 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

I found TBS now, but the other two are gone today.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By WHUDS (BonaireTalker - Post #54) on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 9:35 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Can't flamingo like tell us the line up before changing it? And if they do I can't read the Language how about the announcement in English too?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By WHUDS (BonaireTalker - Post #56) on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 11:24 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

I'm sorry I'm sick of Flamingo, they need to offer a better product. Even the internet is not great.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By juni (BonaireTalker - Post #54) on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 9:47 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

They cut off ESPN since last December. Asked Customer Service and she said she does not know when they will have it back. I missed the first week of Australian Open. Look like I won't be able to see the second week either. Now they cut off BBC and other channels.
I'm upset too!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kevin Wayne Williams (The Great Escape) (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #313) on Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 8:42 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

I switched over to UTS, but not all is wonderful with them, either. I get strange Latin American versions of TBS, TNT, and Hallmark. The Cartoon Channel they show is just strange: it isn't Cartoon Channel from the USA, nor is it Cartoon Channel Latin America (and no "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" , "Moral Orel", or "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", so I'm unhappy), and a really funky set of cable boxes that need to be unplugged periodically to force them to reboot.

On the plus side, I do get Fox again, so I can watch "The Simpsons".

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ross Canant (BonaireTalker - Post #71) on Monday, January 22, 2007 - 4:02 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Is there anything like Dish Network or Direct TV available on the island?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kevin Wayne Williams (The Great Escape) (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #314) on Monday, January 22, 2007 - 6:52 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

The Latin American version of either DirecTV or Dish Network (I forget which) is available. Major US networks are intact, nearly everything else is a custom Latin American market version.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By juni (BonaireTalker - Post #55) on Monday, January 22, 2007 - 9:26 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Kevin, thanks for the info. We hesitated to jump to UTS when FlaTV lost ABC, CBS and NBC last year just because of what you described. Hope FlaTV could get their problem solved before Wimbledon (sigh!)

 


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