Thread: Another Dispute for Dish Network

Looks like Dish Network is in another programming dispute, this time with the folks at Young Broadcasting. And as much as I pick on Dish over...


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I believe Young Broadcasting owns KRON in the bay area. They had a dispute with Dish and lost. Those greedy #$##%$# well they had NBC and tried the samething lost NBC lost revnue for KRON and pleaded with DISH to put them on for free.

That is one way to run a company---IDOTS

To me right or wrong on this one isn't the main point. Why is it that DISH seemingly is involved in more of these similar disputes than ALL the other pay providers COMBINED?

The history of channels dropping from DISH either permanently, or for days/weeks while they bicker is well known. They obviously go about this differently than the other players.

And right or wrong who is the main loser ALLWAYS? Well the subscribing customer, of course.

Originally Posted by ScoBuck

To me right or wrong on this one isn't the main point. Why is it that DISH seemingly is involved in more of these similar disputes than ALL the other pay providers COMBINED?

The history of channels dropping from DISH either permanently, or for days/weeks while they bicker is well known. They obviously go about this differently than the other players.

And right or wrong who is the main loser ALLWAYS? Well the subscribing customer, of course.

Not me! All Dish HD receivers have ATSC tuners built in. One main reason why I don't go back to digital cable. OTA, Baby!

Originally Posted by ScoBuck

To me right or wrong on this one isn't the main point. Why is it that DISH seemingly is involved in more of these similar disputes than ALL the other pay providers COMBINED?

The history of channels dropping from DISH either permanently, or for days/weeks while they bicker is well known. They obviously go about this differently than the other players.

And right or wrong who is the main loser ALLWAYS? Well the subscribing customer, of course.

For the first time I agree with you.

It's not about who's right or who's wrong, it's about the customers always losing channels because of Dish Network's policies.

Not every one of the programming disputes have been with free-to-air channels. This case does. But the point is, why is DISH (seemingly) frequently involved more than all of the rest?

Originally Posted by ScoBuck

To me right or wrong on this one isn't the main point. Why is it that DISH seemingly is involved in more of these similar disputes than ALL the other pay providers COMBINED?

The history of channels dropping from DISH either permanently, or for days/weeks while they bicker is well known. They obviously go about this differently than the other players.

And right or wrong who is the main loser ALLWAYS? Well the subscribing customer, of course.

Give John "darth Vadar" Malone a chance!! he's just "warming up" with Nascar!!! p.s. name the channels (other than Voom) that have been permently tossed!!

Originally Posted by juan

Give John "darth Vadar" Malone a chance!! he's just "warming up" with Nascar!!! p.s. name the channels (other than Voom) that have been permently tossed!!

GolTV, CentroamericaTV, and there are some local channels. As a customer, why do we have to lose channels because Dish Network has these disputes?

This is one of the main reasons I left Dish a couple of years ago. I got tired of all this dropping of channels and 'unfair' prices against Dish customers. I pointed out to Dish back then about how my local cable company and Direct didn't have the same issues.

As far as the cost of the channels goes, this has been happening for a number of years. Local channels can get compensation back from the Cable and Satellite companies because they charge us for those channels. Some cable companies have gotten out of the fee by giving the local channels addition cable channels as compensation. $0.25 to $0.30 is fairly standard from what I've read.

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