Our remote was working this evening and just quit working as far as changing channel, turning on or off, volume control, etc.

I'm not quite understanding what exactly you are saying. Do you mean,
You have a TV, and when you turn it on, you have pictures but, you can't scroll or operate/change channels, volumes etc. by using the remote but, in order to turn the TV off, you have to unplug the power cord.
1. Check the battery in the remote
2. If the battery is good in the remote then you might have a bad remote, buy new remote or replace it with a universal remote.
3. If either not a battery or remote, then it will be the control board inside the TV quit working and will need to be replaced. Depending on how expensive or age of the TV. By the time you invest fixing the board with labor, might runs you from $200 to $400 bucks, and you can buy a new TV from Walmart a 49" inch TV for $319 bucks.

One possible thought is to change the batteries in the remote itself.

Have you tried changing the batteries?

Hey there! This is Becki Barned with dish Network customer service. The remote just needs to be reprogrammed! Take that remote to the front of the receiver, and then follow these simple steps! http://www.dishnetwork.com/SupportSection/remote-control Hope this helps!!!!

Hello, Reset the remote control and use with the equipment . If it does adjust volume, change channel. then use have to get another one of different model

Sometimes there are multiple codes that will work but not work quite right, ie. change channels, work the volume, etc. Try setting the remote on the next higher code that does turn the device off, bypassing the first. If that one does the same, try the next code, etc. Also you can look on remotecentral.com for a way to make the remote do an auto search as the correct code may not be in the printed listings.

email in they will help you there. I have never been turned down by them! i have been out of warranty for about a year

Purchased a new tv
Thanks

I do know about this machine but as a general thing with electronic items :-
With the item turned off press and hold its power on button for 3 to 5 seconds before release or that in combination with either a channel change or volume button, so say power+channel up or power+channel down etc I can only hope this overides the lock out, other than that its say two buttons on a remote etc but this I do not know.

Hope this helps you.......

if the light is staying on this means that a button is stuck down on your remote. It might be defective I would contact the company about warranty.