Meredith dispute with Dish (Ended)

Continuing its knuckle dragging technique for resolving contracts, whats new?

 

Saw this today on Phoenix (Big market) http://www.azfamily.com/story/32429400/will-dish-drop-ktvk-from-its-lineup?autostart=true

 

congress leaves for seven weeks vaction-today -nobody works and nothing gets done -

 

Yep, this is getting old in a hurry. KC area will be down 3 channels (Fox, CBS, MyTV) as well.

Didn't really bother me when it was just Fox but there are several summer series on CBS that I have been watching.

Looks like I will be calling DISH to see what they will offer for those missing channels.

 

don't forget.......Dish does this to save us $.......... :rolling:
just so they can raise their fees

 

The truth is price difference between Dish and Directv for similar programming is very close. You might say Dish is even more expensive and offers less when you look at the top tier packages and number of HD channels.

If this type of negotiating actually worked the consumer isn't seeing it. Why aren't the savings being passed on? Because they line the pockets of Dish investors meanwhile Dish fanboys for some mind-boggling reason think Dish is doing some noble deed, fighting for the consumer. What a lie!

 

For everyone complaining about rates going up anyway: Dish and the other providers aren't ever getting at the end of one of these fights, the same rates as before. The network for example might want an increase for a local channel of $1 per customer, and a superstation or other "national" moved to the bottom tier, at $2 per customer. So that would be 3 per customer just for that round of increases for that one company. A couple of months later another network comes up for a new contract. By the end of the year, every year, it might be $10 in increases, even without accounting for inflation and costs to launch new satellites, run uplinks, customer service, etc.
What Dish, and every other distributor of programming is trying to do, is keep the increases under control. If at the end of all this, they end up with a $0.25 increase per channel per customer for the tribune stations, that doesn't seem like much, but then there are ABC, NBC, and all the others that are going to ask for increases too. There is no way the owners of the stations are going to take a zero increase. It all adds up, and the cost just of paying these fees to tribune and the owners may in total go up $5 a year even with all the negotiations and blackouts.


These numbers are completely made up. so I'm not going to argue the specific numbers, they are not publicized most of the time anyway.

 

Congress the only job you can work less than 20 weeks of the year and get paid for full time work and a 6 digit salary.

The work from noon Mondays to noon Fridays, when they do work.

Their 7 week break is to go to the conventions and campaign. Then work a couple more weeks, then campaign until election day.

As for fixing this? Well, the average citizen is not a powerful lobby like NAB.

 

Programming fees are indeed close, DISH a little less but that does not tell the whole story.. But if you use the VIP receivers DISH is much less than Directv no matter what receivers of theirs you use. I have Top 250 and HBO, two rooms with a VIP three tuner (one is OTA) receiver in each room and of course use of an external hard drive on each. That cost is $26 a month less than Directv. They charge for the first receiver, DISH does not, they would charge me around a $6 surcharge for sports DISH does not, among other things.

In addition most would agree the Hopper is an innovative receiver perhaps the best you can get while Directv receivers need an overhaul. Not that they are bad receivers, they are not but the point is DISH has been investing some profits into better receivers. With the advent of the new Flex package and add ons it also looks like at least one reason negotiations have been long especially over the last year or two is DISH getting them to allow channels closer to an A La Carte situation or at the least most of the top channels in one lower priced package.

 

With more disputes happening to Dish lately, i have a special term for it and that term is Dishpute

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Nothing official, but the DISH Promise page is gone for Meredith and my station did not have the scroll this morning as it did the last two days. The Station website does still have the Dish Subscriber message.

 

Still shows Meredith is in contract disputes putting in my TN zip code on dish promise.