Dish LIVE Retailer Chat Recap - December 20, 2006

[tsc]

So.. let me get this right. Everything but AEP is going up $3/month and AEP goes up $5/month. HD on top of this is $20/month more. From what I'm seeing from the screenshots, no mention of an exclusion for HD Platinum on the $20/month more. So.. for HD Platinum subscribers, like myself, our rates are actually increasing $10/month?!

Not happy at all... Just subscribed November 1st and the Platinum price I definately liked. I expected a rate increase, would have been fine with the $3/month more, but $10/month more? No way..

[psumattDE]

Wow - so for DISH HD Platinum the monthly cost is going up $10 / month? I'm currently paying $99.95 - according to this it will be $89.95 + $20.00!

Holy S!

Man, this just gave me more reason to switch to FIOS TV next month.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Premiums are also going up (See the screen shot) Cinemax is listed in this screen shot.

They talk about bundle discounts of premiums.

They talk about opportunities for customers to avoid the increased pricing and introduce a new package the DishDVR Advantage, it requires 18 month commitment, and credit card auto pay (see graphic) It's a 7% savings for new and existing customer.

Dish is calling 2007 the year of the DVR.

Now they are talking about NASCAR and Dish Network sponsorship of Rouch Racing which has formed a Dish All Star Team. They go into some sensitive marketing information on how they plan to make money off of this partnership.

[minnow]

So.. let me get this right. Everything but AEP is going up $3/month and AEP goes up $5/month. HD on top of this is $20/month more. From what I'm seeing from the screenshots, no mention of an exclusion for HD Platinum on the $20/month more. So.. for HD Platinum subscribers, like myself, our rates are actually increasing $10/month?!

Not happy at all... Just subscribed November 1st and the Platinum price I definately liked. I expected a rate increase, would have been fine with the $3/month more, but $10/month more? No way..

From my reading of that slide, Dish Family, AT60 and AT60+ are not seeing any price increase.

[minnow]

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Now they are talking about NASCAR and Dish Network sponsorship of Rouch Racing which has formed a Dish All Star Team.



I wonder how much of this price increase is going towards the Rouch Racing sponsorship ?

[RandallA]

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$2.00 more for the Two Premium channels pack plus $2.00 or $3.00 or $5.00 more depending on what package you have. Dang!