DISH Network issued a terse statement to Zap2It.com concerning their decision to drop the WWE Elimination Chamber PPV. The statement reads "WWE has chosen to launch a 24/7 online network, without its TV partners, that includes all of its pay-per-view events. As WWE enters the increasingly fragmented media world by themselves, DISH will continue to consider the value of WWE pay-per-view on an event by event basis.

"DISH continues to provide a variety of WWE programming, including 'WWE Raw' on USA, 'WWE Smackdown' on Syfy, 'WWE Main Event' on Ion and 'WWE Total Divas" on E!. At this time, WWE pay-per-view events are not available on DISH." You can read more at http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2014/02/dish-network-drops-wwe-pay-per-views-starting-with-elimination-chamber.html.

Shore's Slant: DISH also took to their Facebook page to say "WWE is not willing to adjust their PPV costs to satellite and cable companies, which is unfair to their customers. We need to re-focus our efforts to support partners that better serve DISH customers. Other satellite and cable companies, including DIRECTV, have also expressed they may no longer provide WWE PPV events in the future." That's a shot if there ever was one. Even though DISH only controls about 12 percent of the televisions in the US, they are the ones setting the stage on which other carriers might act in the future.

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