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Originally Posted by CPanther95 You started off making so much sense, then you blew it at the end. 
Why add another channel that nobody is asking for? The minute you do, that becomes a "real" cost - with the same annual increases attached as the primary two channels.
Fight this channel proliferation at every opportunity - and they have to pick the fights that won't hurt them to badly - this is one of them. The expansion of channels is radically faster paced than the expansion of quality programming. That's why we now have about a dozen Discovery channels, yet barely enough, from all combined, to fill Discovery's HD channel - which draws from all their channels. |
I guess I could have left out: "Dish just wants to be an ass. Charge you more for less in the long run, more profit for them." If Nickelodoen comes out with yet another Nick at Night or Nicktoons type channel, then what if Dish added it without request? It would still cost more. Granted I don't like 50 channels of Discovery or whatever, it has gotten to the point that we have less content per channel and more paid advertisement and infomercials. It's no wonder people demand more channels, they are trying to fill the gaps. In recent years one channel that came out with the right idea with no paid advertisements and infomercials is "The Sportsman Channel". When they came out with "All Hunting. All Fishing. All the Time. they meant it. It's nice to see something like this come along and set the pace for others. It goes to show it's not always about advertisements, etc. it's about content.