HBO pulls Dish service !

wa8yxm wrote:
Ok folks is it DISH or AT&T/Direct????

What gets me is that the "Channel" providers (HBO. Cinimax. WXYZ-TV et.al) all charge Dish or Direct or a cable provider.. Now if the channels were indeed "Commercial Free" LIke cable was advertised as being when the first systems went up I'd say OK. since Cable and Sat make a profit on those... Your subscription pays.

But for re-broadcast Commercial OTA TV which comes complete with commercials.. Should not the stations (Which receiver money from advertisers) PAY the carrier for (DISH/DIrect/Cable) For delivery ???

Still Greed is the word folks.. It's all about seperating YOU from YOUR hard earned cash.

That is why I do not have either Dish or Direc.

X2. I do over the air plus Sling and Netflix. Got so tired of paying cable/Satellite to show me commercials.

Dish for me. No HBO. Don't know about DTV.

FYI. Directv and HBO are owned by ATT.

We have Dish and it is Dish. Don't know about Direct. The Dish information is that customers won't be charged for HBO/Cinemax during the time their out.

www.mydish.com/promise

Ok folks is it DISH or AT&T/Direct????

What gets me is that the "Channel" providers (HBO. Cinimax. WXYZ-TV et.al) all charge Dish or Direct or a cable provider.. Now if the channels were indeed "Commercial Free" LIke cable was advertised as being when the first systems went up I'd say OK. since Cable and Sat make a profit on those... Your subscription pays.

But for re-broadcast Commercial OTA TV which comes complete with commercials.. Should not the stations (Which receiver money from advertisers) PAY the carrier for (DISH/DIrect/Cable) For delivery ???

Still Greed is the word folks.. It's all about seperating YOU from YOUR hard earned cash.

That is why I do not have either Dish or Direc.

BB_TX wrote:
Same old story. Contract dispute to see who will give in first. Typically back within a few days.

I don't know.... 5-6 years ago the Weather Channel and Verizon Fios had a pricing dispute... I still do not have it back and miss it during storms.

Same old story. Contract dispute to see who will give in first. Typically back within a few days.

Dish has replaced the main hbo Chanel with a “movie” Chanel playing old movies until settled.
Normal price dispute except HBO is just this year now owned by directv / ATT .. sounds kinda fishy since hbo has never held back content ever until now

Update. I don't have Dish/HBO. I clicked on the wrong HBO channel.
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/hbo-goes-dark-for-first-time-in-its-history-due-to-standoff-with-dish-1203016928/