Removal of Channels can mess up routines

Desperate Housewives first aired on October 3rd 2004. For the past several years we have recieved a New York feed of prime time channels which gave us the options of catching shows at two different times, or watching 2 shows that we would have had to choose between otherwise. On that particular Sunday my family sat down to check out Desperate Housewives at 6 on the New York feed instead of waiting until 9. We were hooked and a Sunday tradition was born. My family (I know this is silly) gathers to watch Desperate Housewives at 6 pm on Sundays. This Sunday our Tradition was ruffled.

A court order, effective midnight on December 1st, required Dish Network to shut off these feeds. Some might say that it doesn't matter because we still have all those channels 3 hours later. After years of this though, routines have been established. My parents used to get up and get ready to work while watching Regis and Kelly. This is no longer possible and frankly it really sucks.

Though we will continue our ritual as best we can, it has really changed the whole Sunday night dynamic, and It's quite unfortunate.