Help with programming packages

[Jimbo]

choice and choice extra are goin up $3 each, ultimate $4 and premier 5$. plus dvr is going up $1, so your looking at $4-6$ a month increases, is that more than normal? how much do they typically go up a year?

Typiocally it's 2-3 dollars, they generally don't increase the dvr/ recvr fees ect.
Last year they raised the recvr fee, this year the DVR, first time they have ever gone up, now, if they continue raising them, we have a problem, if they keep it where it is again, we'll be fine.

[bobvick]

While DirecTV certainly bears part of the responsibility where price increases are concerned. I fully believe that the most of the increases come from the greedy programmers. Not that DirecTV is not a business and not concerned with profit, but the programmers are the ones that are gouging us so badly. They go up on the price of their content more and more each year. I am convinced that if people would (which they are not going to) boycott the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc... the price would begin to at least stabilize if not come down some. The NFL is the main culprit, and the programmers are the ones that are stupid for paying billions to have contracts to provide the coverage of their games. Who knows, maybe each DirecTV subscriber helps to subsidize the cost of the NFL sunday ticket, that is the jewel in the crown for DirecTV. I know that everyone helps to subsidize the cost of ESPN for the ones that want it. I could care less about ESPN myself, but I am in the minority on that and I know it. If it were broken out and made like HBO, the package prices could probably drop some.

[Iceberg]

Call Directv and see what they say. I saw a post that they gave a customer $5 off for 6 months because of Sprout moving to a higher package (the customer changed to the new package so it was a wash)