Dish Network loses 7 Turner Broadcasting channels

I called DISH & complained. They gave me $5 off per month for 6 months even though they expect to have CNN et all back soon.

Bird Freak wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
I lost some of the Braves baseball games in 2013 and this year also. Dish kept telling me they were working on getting them back. Turns out Direct and my local cable company never lost any of them. Dish seems to think they should not have to pay the same as everyone else. I dropped them. I had been with them 14 years.

Who will you switch to when your current TV provider has their next unresolved contract dispute? Fairly recently, Direct lost The Weather Channel for three months, and TWC lost the CBS stations in some areas for a month over carriage fee contract disputes. Each service provider has carriage contracts that expire at different times, so it's not at all unusual for only one of them to lose certain channels at renewal time. The following year, a different service might lose the same channels for some period.

I doubt I will. Dish had lied to me for over a year and kept charging me more money for less product. No discounts for programing I was paying for and not getting. I understand contract problems but not ripping me off for something I am not getting.

The point is though, that all of the TV service providers have carriage contract issues from time to time, so unless you're satisfied with the limited OTA offerings, you'll run into the same problems sooner or later, no matter who your subscription is with. And all of them have the same "We reserve the right to make changes..." in the terms of service. You don't like Dish? Fine... Just don't expect anything different from the others.

wa8yxm wrote:
I often wonder why they do this.. To my way of thinking the stations and networks should be paying DISH to deliver their programming instead of charging them to carry it.

My thought too.

The money they get paid for a commercial(s) depends on the number of viewers. If you lose the viewers you get paid less for the commercial(s).

az99 wrote:

Stefonius wrote:
Someday, cable/satellite providers will operate on an "a la carte" system, and I'll be able to pick my own channel package. They'll fight it tooth and nail in Congress for as long as they can, but someday it will happen.

Unfortunately that is no longer likely. So many channels are owned by so few companies that they will strong arm the providers to keep carrying the junk we don't want to pay for or they won't give them the good channels.

The only alternative (which more and more are doing) is cancel and use OTA and internet.

That's one of the first things I'll do once I get off the road and settle down some place.

Stefonius wrote:
Someday, cable/satellite providers will operate on an "a la carte" system, and I'll be able to pick my own channel package. They'll fight it tooth and nail in Congress for as long as they can, but someday it will happen.

Unfortunately that is no longer likely. So many channels are owned by so few companies that they will strong arm the providers to keep carrying the junk we don't want to pay for or they won't give them the good channels.

The only alternative (which more and more are doing) is cancel and use OTA and internet.

Stefonius wrote:
Someday, cable/satellite providers will operate on an "a la carte" system, and I'll be able to pick my own channel package. They'll fight it tooth and nail in Congress for as long as they can, but someday it will happen.

And it will cost more.

Someday, cable/satellite providers will operate on an "a la carte" system, and I'll be able to pick my own channel package. They'll fight it tooth and nail in Congress for as long as they can, but someday it will happen.

Of course in SoCal we had the SportsNet LA debacle. In this case, Time Warner and the Dodgers got too greedy and no one (Dish, Direct, Comcast etc.) would pay their asking price to distribute. So TW ended up being the only provider to carry the Dodger games, and they are only available to about 30% of the audience. So even if someone wanted to switch to TW to get the Dodgers, most likely they couldn't. It has created a lot of ill will.

Not much difference between Dish, DTV and cable or any other business for that matter.

The current business model is give less ..... (Fill in the blank) to customers and get more money from customers for the lesser .... (Fill in the blank).

As long as the customer keeps paying things will continue in the current direction. I'm old enough to remember when a business wanted to keep good customers but now there are so many people that they have three in the wings if they lose you so they quite frankly don't care.

Dutch_12078 wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
I lost some of the Braves baseball games in 2013 and this year also. Dish kept telling me they were working on getting them back. Turns out Direct and my local cable company never lost any of them. Dish seems to think they should not have to pay the same as everyone else. I dropped them. I had been with them 14 years.

Who will you switch to when your current TV provider has their next unresolved contract dispute? Fairly recently, Direct lost The Weather Channel for three months, and TWC lost the CBS stations in some areas for a month over carriage fee contract disputes. Each service provider has carriage contracts that expire at different times, so it's not at all unusual for only one of them to lose certain channels at renewal time. The following year, a different service might lose the same channels for some period.

I doubt I will. Dish had lied to me for over a year and kept charging me more money for less product. No discounts for programing I was paying for and not getting. I understand contract problems but not ripping me off for something I am not getting.