Thread: Another Dish Dispute

Another Dish Dispute

Looks like some Dish customers might wake up tomorrow missing some of their local channels. Dish is in another dispute, this time with Fisher Communications.

It appears that the channels could be turned off as soon as 11pm Pacific Time tonight.

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UPDATE - The channels were shut off overnight. For discussion please CLICK HERE.

Shocker here.

I hope Dish, DirecTV and the cablecos all take a hard line with this company. They seem to be making outlandish demands. Too bad it seems Dish is first on the firing line.

Dish seems to be the first on the firing lines because they are the first that disputes anything it seems.

If Dish continues to have it dropped by DirecTv and cable companies are able to get a new contract then that will look real bad for Dish.

Maybe I missed it, but is there a list of the channels and markets that might be affected? I suppose I could also just wait until 11 and see if any of my channels go off.

This is just another reason to eliminate all the network channel redundancy and allow satellite subscribers to get national network feeds. My perception is, the majority of all satellite network viewers could care less about getting local channels anyway. I for one would prefer direct network feeds via satellite. I get my local news from the newspaper; product ads are ads regardless of whether they are shown locally or nationally and, most community programs and sub-digital channels that are aired locally aren't worth watching anyway. Let cable have the local channels.

Originally Posted by navychop

I hope Dish, DirecTV and the cablecos all take a hard line with this company. They seem to be making outlandish demands. Too bad it seems Dish is first on the firing line.

How do you figure they're making outlandish demands? Do you know what the contract contains? I don't.

I don't like losing my locals but I'm really tired of the BS Dish pulls. How many disputes has Dish had this year v.s. the rest of the satellite/cable industry.

If Verizon, Comcast, Charter, Directv and a dozen smaller cable companies have agreements with Fisher, what's the issue with Dish?

How many disputes in the last 5 years has Dish had compared to others? There is a common denominator in the majority of these articles, and its Dish.

Yes, they are the common denominator because DISH will NOT agree to pay any more than they already pay for local channels. Funny if they did pay more , you would see an increase on your locals bill and then it would be;" WHY are we paying more for locals ? " DISH seperates their locals from their regular programming and DIRECTV hides a lot of their cost in the regular programming packs. They claim it only cost them 3.00 for locals ,but do you really believe that it only cost them 3.00 when it cost 5.99 for DISH? THis is something I agree with that DISH is doing.

It makes no sense to pay more to local channels when the reception is free ota. DISH needs to come up with a solution that allows a single coax from an antenna to be split into 4 tuners. Then combine that with your 2 sat and you would not need to ever have to pay another local channel again for reception. All you need is guide data from Tribune and you could record off of the ota nets. The new 722k receiver ,yet to be released , that splits a single coax into 2 ota tuners and lets you record 2 sat & 2 ota at the same time, is a start on the idea I'm talking about. I never understood why Satellite didn't do this from the start and then they would never have to uplink all those locals in the first place. Then your pq would be great on your locals and your pq on your national channels would be great too. There would be no need to compress the crap out of nationals to fit in more locals. IF DISH did this and got the AAD company that does distants, to do their channels in hd and you could stop uplinking locals right now. Then imagine all the people that could have hd networks without the hassle of these retransmission disputes every year.